Free street food made from food scraps!

CLIENT
Personal work. This is the result of a group project from the course EAT - Food Culture, Materiality and Design at HDK, Göteborg Sweden.

MISSION
To contribute to the Gothenburg design festival - on the theme "sharing".

DESIGN PROCESS
We decided to address the issue of food waste early in the process. While brainstorming we experimented with food scraps, eventually leading up to the final idea. The name is a play on words, a mixture of Crêpes, Scraps, and Skräp - the Swedish word for waste.

We got all the fruit, such as plums, apples, kiwis, strawberries, and bananas, for free from a supermarket that otherwise would have thrown it all in the trash.

We created a logo and a basic graphic profile. We printed our logo on paper compost bags and used them for serving the crepes and as labels for the jam jars. We sewed aprons from scrap fabrics and screen printed the logo onto them, created a variety of signs and pennants from compost bags.

OUTCOME
We created a pop-up street food stand just outside the city library. During lunch hours we served free vegan crepes, with jam made from fruits that otherwise would have been thrown away. We also gave away leftover fruit and jars of our homemade jam and chutneys.

With this event, we managed to raise awareness of the fact that massive amounts of perfectly good food are continuously being thrown away in our society. We educated our audience and engaged in various conversations around the subject of food waste. We felt good about sharing all of this without expecting anything back, but some guests refused NOT to pay and instead donated money to charity organizations.