The well travelled taco

A group of architecture students were given an assignment as part of URBANlab, a program of The California College of the Arts.

Their aim was to map the ingredients from a single taco at Juan's Taco Truck - from the corn in the tortilla to the tomatoes in the salsa. Every ingredient purchased by Juan's Taco Truck had been chosen because it was the most economical possible and therefore the cheapest possible taco in San Francisco.

By thoroughly understanding what it takes to make a taco, the class hoped to become "better able to propose and design a speculative model of a holistic and sustainable urban future."

Each student was given one ingredient to trace back to it original destination. This was not an easy task as they went up against deliberately ambiguous corporations. Nevertheless, persistence prevailed and they were able to plot the exact routes travelled by planes, trucks and shipping containers.

Man alive were they in for a discovery! Within a single taco the ingredients had travelled at total of 64,000 miles, which is just over 2.5 circumference of the earth!

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