Largest canned food structure
July 4 2008 – Rothbury, Michigan
Conscious Alliance, along with the “architecture team” of Montana State University, banded together to form an all-star partnership for the first annual ROTHBURY music festival. Together they set a new Guinness World Record for the largest canned food structure.
The record-setting collaboration helped elevate awareness of Conscious Alliance - a not-for-profit organization based in Boulder, Colorado, USA – and their unique mission on 4 July 2008 to create the largest canned food structure, as part of a massive food drive to benefit impoverished families around Rothbury, Michigan.
Conscious Alliance - headed by Justin Baker – partnered with John Brittingham, architect and professor of architecture at Montana State University, to create the structure’s design. Brittingham helped lead a team of 7 from the university to carefully stack and arrange the structure’s 45,725 cans in approximately 280 collective hours.
At the music festival’s completion, all cans used in the structure – in addition to thousands of pounds of non-perishable food items donated by festival attendees - were donated to local pastor Roy Price of the Shiloh Tabernacle, in Muskegon, Michigan, USA, for further distribution to area food pantries and service organizations.
15 July 2008