Slow Food Nation is a celebration of food in America, taking place in San Francisco over the Labor Day weekend. It is "the first-ever American collaborative gathering to unite the growing sustainable food movement and introduce thousands of people to food that is good, clean and fair."

It is also an architectural event; two dozen San Francisco area architectural firms contributed services to work with the food curators and develop booths and displays. TreeHugger has talked about slow design before; here it is in slo-mo . Advisory Committee head Hans Baldauf says “The Slow Food Movement provides an ethical and cultural dimension to the complex issues of sustainability that are on the forefront of the challenges that we are confronting as designers."

Stanley Saitowitz`s Bread Pavilion, shown above, is constructed out of a complex scaffolding system.
www.treehugger.com/files/2008/08/slow-design-meets-slow-food-nation.php