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Food Space Planner

Compare food-growing, cooking and sharing spaces for a place you know. Build a shortlist for local discussion.

Use the planner ↓Read Food Park ↗

Interactive browser tool

Build a shortlist.

Choose a local need, available space and scale. Your shortlist updates as you select.

01 What should the place improve?

02 What space is already available?

03 Choose a working scale

Your shortlist

3 food-space ideas / neighbourhood

Prepare + gather

Communal kitchen-dining

Editorial illustration of a shared kitchen and dining space for preparing and eating together. — Illustration of a food space—not a site-specific design.
Editorial illustration / Field Assembly

A shared room for affordable meals, teaching, celebrations and gatherings. Why it matches: need — Fresh-food access, Places to gather; space — Open ground

Learn + produce

Greenhouse school

Editorial illustration of a greenhouse learning space with growing beds and places to gather. — Illustration of a food space—not a site-specific design.
Editorial illustration / Field Assembly

A garden classroom linking food growing, practical learning and nearby schools. Why it matches: need — Fresh-food access, Places to gather; space — Open ground

Store + support

Fresh-food pantry

Editorial illustration of a neighbourhood pantry with food storage and a distribution counter. — Illustration of a food space—not a site-specific design.
Editorial illustration / Field Assembly

A welcoming place to collect surplus produce and prepared meals. Why it matches: need — Fresh-food access, Places to gather; This matches your needs, but not the spaces selected. Check whether a suitable space is available.

Do next: map local growers, cooks, schools, food-support groups, residents and housing teams. Discuss this shortlist with them before developing a design.

Use this shortlist for discussion. It does not check space requirements or feasibility.

Developed by Field Assembly to accompany Food Park. The planner is separate from Anindita’s original AA thesis.

What it does: Matches selected needs and available spaces against six types of food space. Scale changes only the shortlist length.
Data: Selections stay in this browser session and are not stored or transmitted.
Limit: No area, capacity, feasibility, planning or community approval is calculated.

After the shortlist

Take it into conversation.

Ask residents, growers, cooks and local food groups whether these spaces answer a real need. Check site conditions before taking the idea further.

See the Food Park research ↗

Page summary

In brief

We asked

Which food spaces might support the needs of a place?

What this page shows

Choose a need, available space and scale, then discuss the resulting food-space shortlist with people who use and care for the place.

What’s included An interactive food-space shortlist for discussion, not a feasibility assessment