The Continuous Picnic

&How does London feed itself?
Bohn Viljoen Architects and their team of architects, community gardeners, designers and food enthusiasts explore this question in a day-long event celebrating local food and the city.

Their aim is to engage Londoners and visitors in a dialogue about urban food production and an alternative use of open space making the point that both could be combined advantageously in future urban design - as spelt out in Bohn & Viljoen's sustainable design concept for a Continuous Productive Urban Landscape (CPUL).

For one day, a designated area in one of the most beautiful parts of central London will transform into a continuous picnic of infinite personal encounters and fresh food events. Located on Montague Place (closed for traffic on that day) and Russell Square, this is a free outdoor event for everybody to celebrate good food and company.

The day will kick off at 10am with an "Inverted Market", when any member of the public can bring locally produced fruit and vegetables to Montague Place where it will be included in a 120-metre long Fresh Food market installation.

>>> You are invited to bring locally produced fruit and vegetables (either self-grown or bought from local growers) to the "Inverted Market", enter our various fruit & vegetable competitions judged by some of London's greatest chefs and food producers and win fantastic food prices! (You can then take your produce away with you or share it with others.) <<<

At 12noon, the "Picnic Proper" starts. Join in for lunch at any place and meet with your family, friends, neighbours, colleagues and others who like to be out in the open on a long summer's day.

The Continuous Picnic will conclude with a "Community Composting" event starting at 4pm when all compostable parts of the day will be returned to local communities for reuse.

Starting at 10am and running right through till 6pm, there will be lots of entertainment and things to see all centred around the idea of Fresh Food: prizes given to the largest, most beautiful, least carbon-intensive and tastiest fruit and vegetables, celebrity chef's preparation tables, especially designed picnic blankets, family food games, a fruit raffle, LFA picnic hampers, a CPUL talk, an Edible Flower competition and many more...

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