Our path to Safe Food. The structure of the SAFE FOOD project was originally defined by an invitation from CALC to produce a small website (www.onair.co.za/safefood) in response to the CALC brief for Guestland, i.e. a project that would question the very singular or isolationist properties of so much computer interaction – in this instance on the world wide web. Given the limited budget, we chose to respond to the invitation and brief by setting up a basic workshop programme that would ensure some transference of the content of our website to the local landscape and vice versa. Very quickly we could see that ‘social game’ in our context suggested social awareness and the broad subject of homelessness emerged as a defining framework within which to demonstrate a very fragmented society in South Africa. Ultimately our process thus far has resulted from researching the participants for our intended  Workshops. In order to do this we have interviewed the director of the Homeless Talk supplement, the CEO of the Johannesburg Development Agency, the CEO of the Johannesburg Civic Theatre, Directors of the Joubert Park Public Art Project and the Director of the Johannesburg Art Gallery. These interviews focused us in very specific urban areas each defined either by (apartheid) townships - Soweto or decaying inner city neighbourhoods – Berea, Hillbrow, Joubert Park.  Finally, recommendations from the Civic Theatre CEO pointed us in the direction of the Hillbrow Police Services, which has resulted in identifying two different groups of participants (for the intended workshops). Group 1; are some 30 young boys who now live in a rehabilitation home in Protea Glen, Soweto. For many of these boys life was about street survival and homelessness, today they all attend school and live an otherwise “normal” life under the support and dedication of Sergeant Nicholas Ncube – from the Hillbrow Police  Services. The second group also fall within the jurisdiction and concern of Sergeant Ncube however they experience the street on a daily basis – sniffing glue, begging, grouping together to survive another day. They represent the lives that the Protea Glen kids lived not so long ago. What was intended as a modest workshop process has now evolved into a much more complex set of social, political and cultural realities which ultimately requires the support and involvement of many different practitioners and volunteers. Hence our solution is to devise a public event that will draw all these people into the actual context where such homeless problems can be identified, moreover the event will raise monies beyond our existing budget that will finance the workshops and other critical aspects relating to the content of the workshops, documentation, exhibition of the results and so forth. At this point SAFEFOOD is a project aiming to plot a complex set of cultural and social transactions identified in the city and surrounds. As more information is gathered we find ourselves embracing new guests onto the website as well as accumulating a vital database on statistics and conditions pertaining to the city and its homeless. On the other side of this equation is the analysis of information and the potential to manipulate and transform certain meanings within this project to set off associations about the urban landscape, in order to playfully subvert more traditional readings of landscape. In closing, this all sounds very serious – and for those readers who have never visited South Africa, we assure you it is. However the social game that we have incorporated into our process is actually a lot of fun and involves playful dynamics between high and lo tech systems, public spaces and institutions, an online auction (see Trinity Session project page – www.artthrob.co.za), makeshift installation tactics in Johannesburg and Turin, and a plethora of contemporary art languages to conduct a balance between social relevance and artistic values. At present we are in the throes of a process that has its own drives, we’ll reflect again in a month or so….   Stephen Hobbs (644 words) For the Trinity Session