Food Stories: Oslo
OSLO, NORWAY
Client: Oslo Architecture Triennale 2019
Phase: Exhibition | Installation
Landscape Architect: edit
Film: Food Stories: Oslo
Urban agriculture offers solutions to today's challenges: food waste, pollution, biodiversity loss, and culinary illiteracy. Food is not just a necessity, but a spatial and political issue—one that should be planned for like water, transport, or education.
This project seeks to understand and support the grassroots movements reshaping Oslo’s food landscape. As designers, we can help create cities where growing food is part of everyday life—and a better future.
The city needs a new diet, new recipes, and new stories. So—what’s your food story?
The global food system is responsible for 20–30% of human-made greenhouse gas emissions. Food Stories questions this model and explores local, self-sufficient alternatives—like urban farms, cooperatives, and biodynamic agriculture—that can feed growing populations while reducing environmental harm.
In Oslo, interviews with local food actors—from rooftop growers to hydroponic farms—revealed a clear need for systemic change. Norway must rethink its entire food cycle—from production to waste—with circularity at the center.
