This presentation will reflect on imaginaries of food futures and foods of the future gathered through an activity of public engagement at the EXPO 2015 and based on an "experiential" practices explored elsewhere by Davies et al. (2103) and Selin (2014). During six months, the world exhibition in Milano focuses on "Feeding the Planet, Energy for Life" hosting several countries who showcase technologies, innovation, culture, traditions, around food. Our activity, called Food Futuring Tours, consists of a series of walking sensorial tours throughout the Expo pavilions, where participants were invited, both as individuals during the tours and then in collective workshops, at re-imagining the future of food and foods of the future, considering their possible social, ethical, cultural and environmental impacts; the starting point is what they saw and noticed in each country's pavilion. Scenarios are built as timelines illustrated with visual materials and ethnographic notes expressing temporal cues, together with uncertainties that could hinder or foster such imaginaries. The participatory experience aims at collecting into a reflexive debate the insights from citizens critically counteracting citizens described and performed as just consumers, which focus on citizen choices and behaviors as drivers of food markets. The experience explores ways in which human agency can change what is described as an urgent and complex human issue: quality feeding the planet.
Imaginaries of food - a participatory visionary lab to think and tinker with the future of food @ the EXPO 2015 in Milan
Alba L'Astorina;Irene Tomasoni
2015
Abstract
This presentation will reflect on imaginaries of food futures and foods of the future gathered through an activity of public engagement at the EXPO 2015 and based on an "experiential" practices explored elsewhere by Davies et al. (2103) and Selin (2014). During six months, the world exhibition in Milano focuses on "Feeding the Planet, Energy for Life" hosting several countries who showcase technologies, innovation, culture, traditions, around food. Our activity, called Food Futuring Tours, consists of a series of walking sensorial tours throughout the Expo pavilions, where participants were invited, both as individuals during the tours and then in collective workshops, at re-imagining the future of food and foods of the future, considering their possible social, ethical, cultural and environmental impacts; the starting point is what they saw and noticed in each country's pavilion. Scenarios are built as timelines illustrated with visual materials and ethnographic notes expressing temporal cues, together with uncertainties that could hinder or foster such imaginaries. The participatory experience aims at collecting into a reflexive debate the insights from citizens critically counteracting citizens described and performed as just consumers, which focus on citizen choices and behaviors as drivers of food markets. The experience explores ways in which human agency can change what is described as an urgent and complex human issue: quality feeding the planet.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
