张乐，设计师。
将设计视为思想催化剂，她常常活跃于：

Le Zhang, designer.
Viewing design as a catalyst for thought, she works across:

❶ 独立出版 independent publishing，
❷ 公共活动策划 public programme ,
❸ 写作 writing,
❹ 教学teaching，
❺ 以及其他 and so on……
目前，她将工作的重心放在文化设计工作室 ❻「远地食堂」，从地理与谱系的视角探索饮食文化。Currently, her work centers on ❻Earth Buffet, a cultural design studio exploring food culture through the lenses of geography and genealogy.












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薯币  Potato Currency 






田野调查 Field research
写作 Writing

2023-now

Tracing the potatoes in fields, market, and dinning table, I use it as the “open sesame” to understand the local food system and its relation to the global network. Potatoes in Malta exist in a context of glocalization. As an exotic crop, it has been embraced and loved by the locals. Meanwhile, due to climate differences, it has become a cash crop with export advantages. Potatoes circulate like currency on the lands of Malta and throughout Europe. Viewing the difference of transactions, the contours of society has delineated from the perspective of food. This includes the introduced crop in colonial times, the traditional of self-sustaining agricultural,  and Malta's "surrogacy" food production model in relation to the European mainland.

追踪马铃薯在田间、市场与餐桌之间的流动，我将其作为理解当地食物体系及其与全球网络关系的敲门砖。马耳他的马铃薯存在于一种“全球在地化”（glocalization）的语境中。作为一种外来作物，它被当地人接受并喜爱；与此同时，由于气候差异，它也成为具有出口优势的经济作物。马铃薯如同货币般，在马耳他的土地与整个欧洲之间循环流通。通过观察这些交易的差异，社会的轮廓从食物的视角被勾勒出来——其中包括殖民时期引入的作物、自给自足的农业传统，以及马耳他为欧洲大陆的“代孕式”食品生产模式。