Can You Feel The Force?
From me to we: a biocosmic metaphor in a speculative meditation on humans and holobionts, microbes and midichlorians, Star Wars and storytelling by Sophie Lovell. May the Force be with us.
Territorial Stomachs & Other Future Foodscapes
The Future Foodscapes Research Unit rethinks the future of the planetary food system through research and speculative projects, one of which explores the viewpoint of the kitchen as an externalised stomach.
Gut Feeling
Dr Vanessa Kimbell is a sourdough baker. educator and food activist. She talks to The Common Table about her very personal healing journey with sourdough, which led to her mission to change systems in the food industry.
Diet Degrowth
Sean Roy Parker is part of a movement seeking new connections between food, consumption and digestion. Here he proposes a new "diet degrowth" discourse.
The Milk Trekker
Cheesemaker Trevor Warmedahl visits Tushetian herders in the pastoral highlands of the Caucasus to learn about their adaptive relationship with landscape, livestock and indigenous microbes.
Dairy Non Dairy
Designer Philipp Kolmann is on a quest to create plant-based cheese and save the microbiomes and artisanal food culture of the Alps in the process.
Is it Clean or is it Hygiene?
Through some of the most ancient and familiar food processes, designer Philipp Kolmann addresses the topic of hygiene and its power to threaten biodiversity, physical and even mental health.
Mother’s Hand Taste
Jiwon Woo's project explores whether "son-mat", the flavour imparted to fermented foods by families' unique microflora, can be transmitted through generations and across continents.
Primordial Soup
Sandor Katz talks about the importance of microbes to understanding our evolution, our culture, our food and ourselves. Listen here to his seminal paper “Fermentation as Co-Evolutionary Force”.
