SMUC wins award at Media Architecture Biennale 2025
The MAB Awards recognize excellent projects at the intersection of architecture, urban design and planning, media and interaction design, and urban media art.
Scaling Material Urban Commons (2021–2024) was a critical making project that explored pathways towards just algorithmic governance of urban resources in a time of extractivist and biased algorithms. The project rehearsed collective machine teaching and community-based data practices to distribute rescued food.
The MAB Award especially honored the smuc.kitchen Field Test, that used participatory design and creative coding to explore community-based machine teaching for the distribution of rescued food. For the six-week Field Test, Basel-based food rescue organisation FoodAngels provided supplies for two one-week-long phases of personal food deliveries. Participants formed an Assembly to negotiate the distribution of rescued food and to teach a custom-built Food Distribution Engine to orchestrate it.
Find all MAB25 Awards winners and nominees here: https://mab2025.org/mab-awards/.