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Example round: this shows how a round will run. The ideas, votes and results below are illustrative.

Open all yearMarrickville

Where big
food ideas get built.

Few places will take a big idea about how we grow, cook, share and recover food. This is meant to be one. Share it, let the people who would use it back it, and the winner gets development support from Feedback Organic to build it.

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Any size of idea. Any time.

Big ideas · open all year

Ideas bigger than one suburb

A new kind of food business, a system across a whole city, a way of working that does not exist yet. Shortlisted twice a year and pitched to a panel and the public.

    Local campaigns · example: Marrickville

    One suburb, one question

    About five months, one suburb, everyone asked the same question. The winner gets development support to be built on the street it came from.

      How it works

      An idea becomes something you can use.

      1. 1
        Share an ideaAnyone who lives, works or studies here. It takes about three minutes.
      2. 2
        Upvote the shortlistThe suburb backs the ideas it would use. In this example, voting runs until .
      3. 3
        Build it, togetherThe top ideas are scored in the open. The winner gets development support to launch as a local business.
      4. 4
        HarvestIt launches on your street, and the next round starts with what we learned.

      The full rules and how scoring works

      Open for upvotes

      What the example round is backing

      See them on the mapAll ideas
      How a round ends, as an example

      An example winner, from idea to build.

      Example winner

      Second Serve jam kitchen

      In the example round, a jam and chutney business made from grocers' surplus fruit wins the vote and the panel's score, and moves into build.

      Example ideaIllustrative
      Shared
      By a local cook, after a weekend at the market.
      Backed
      Top of the community vote, then the top score from the panel.
      Built
      With development support from Feedback Organic. Peels and stones go in a Feedback Organic bin. Prize and funding details are announced when the round opens.

      Where the other example ideas could go

      TEDxTEDxCooks Hill · 2024
      Where the idea comes from

      From plate to platform.

      Feedback Organic's founder, David Sivyer, spoke at TEDxCooks Hill about a circular economy approach to food waste. The Co-Design Hub grows from that talk: a place where anyone's idea about our food system can be backed and made real.

      Watch the talk

      In person

      Ideas are better said out loud.

      About ideas nights
      For the whole suburb

      It takes a suburb.
      Bring yours.

      A poster, a newsletter, a quiet word at the counter. When local places ask the question together, people answer.

      Share an idea Back it as a local venue