The design research group Robots in Gastronomy’s 3D-printing food cart debuted last week in the “Adhocracy” exhibition at the Istanbul Design Biennial.

Robots in Gastronomy may not be the first tinkerers to come out with a 3D chocolate printer, but they’re certainly the most mobile. At the opening of the Istanbul Design Biennial last week, the Robots debuted their prototype for a food cart that brings 3D printing technology (and multidimensional snacking) beyond the walls of the research lab and onto the streets. (Is there an A+ Award for deliciousness?)

The group’s MakerBot 3D printer debuted earlier this year at Milan Design Week, where the collaborators printed out chocolaty confections for the “Future in the Making” show. For Istanbul, the Robots — among them architects from GGLab, chef Paco Morales, and architects Luis E. Fraguada and Deniz Manisali — constructed a curvaceous wood pavilion for scooting the bot around town. Eat Read more!

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It’s hard to live in the city, but with a little hacking ethic and bit of ingenuity, you might just make it. See urban hactivist Florian Rivière’s DIY strategies to turn any city corner into a site for play and invention. While they won’t exactly re-program public space or alter your perception of the city, Atelier Steffen Kehrle‘s “survival kits” will keep you from that most dreaded of prospects–handling greasy street food with your bare hands, vulnerable, without the mediation of plastic ware or even napkins, to the noxious smells and feel endemic to a city’s food cart brand of cooking oils. The kits are made of relatively thick stainless steel and lasercut into stylized outlines of those tools deemed necessary for urban survival. There are utensils for the hungry and a bottle opener for the thirsty, but also a crucifix  for the pious and a heart for New Yorkers. Never leave home without it.

[via Notcot]

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