Anticipation studies are a valuable tool to reflect on our techno-scientific driven world; the chronotope (Jack 2006) we live in is speed, besides the growing amount of social and environmental uncertainties. A key development in anticipation and anticipatory governance is the involvement of all those concerned with the matters needed to be reflected upon. This presentation describes a proposal of anticipation within a public engagement activity conducted during the EXPO 2015 and based on an "experiential" practice explored elsewhere by Davies et al. (2103) and Selin (2014). The activity aimed at collecting imaginations of the future of food and the food(s) of the future gathered during the world exhibition in Milano Expo 2015, which is focused on "Feeding the Planet, Energy for Life". During six months Milano hosts several countries showcasing technologies, innovation, culture, traditions, around the theme of food. The experiential route, called Food Futuring Tours, consisted of a series of semi-guided walking sensorial tours throughout the Expo pavilions, where a total of 100 participants were invited, both as individual walkers and in collective workshops later, at re-imagining the future of food and the food(s) of the future, considering all the possible social, ethical, cultural and environmental impacts. The aim of the anticipatory activity was to collect into a reflexive debate the insights from citizens visiting Expo, who usually are described and performed as just consumers - i.e. following a neo-liberal economic perspective focusing on citizen choices and behaviors as drivers of food markets. The exercise also explored other ways in which human agency can change what is now described as an urgent and complex human issue: feeding the planet with quality.
Imagining food: a participatory journey to think and tinker with the future of food @ the EXPO 2015 in Milan
Alba L'Astorina;Irene Tomasoni
2015
Abstract
Anticipation studies are a valuable tool to reflect on our techno-scientific driven world; the chronotope (Jack 2006) we live in is speed, besides the growing amount of social and environmental uncertainties. A key development in anticipation and anticipatory governance is the involvement of all those concerned with the matters needed to be reflected upon. This presentation describes a proposal of anticipation within a public engagement activity conducted during the EXPO 2015 and based on an "experiential" practice explored elsewhere by Davies et al. (2103) and Selin (2014). The activity aimed at collecting imaginations of the future of food and the food(s) of the future gathered during the world exhibition in Milano Expo 2015, which is focused on "Feeding the Planet, Energy for Life". During six months Milano hosts several countries showcasing technologies, innovation, culture, traditions, around the theme of food. The experiential route, called Food Futuring Tours, consisted of a series of semi-guided walking sensorial tours throughout the Expo pavilions, where a total of 100 participants were invited, both as individual walkers and in collective workshops later, at re-imagining the future of food and the food(s) of the future, considering all the possible social, ethical, cultural and environmental impacts. The aim of the anticipatory activity was to collect into a reflexive debate the insights from citizens visiting Expo, who usually are described and performed as just consumers - i.e. following a neo-liberal economic perspective focusing on citizen choices and behaviors as drivers of food markets. The exercise also explored other ways in which human agency can change what is now described as an urgent and complex human issue: feeding the planet with quality.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
