Territorial Stomachs & Other Future Foodscapes

  • 12. December 2024
  • 4 minute read
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.
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Serendipity and Gastrophysics

  • 28. August 2024
  • 13 minute read
Professor Charles Spence is an experimental psychologist who popularised the term gastrophysics. The Common Table talked to him about serendipitous encounters and food that makes you cry. 
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Molding Food Futures

  • 23. August 2022
  • 12 minute read
LinYee Yuan, the founder and editor of MOLD magazine, talks about designing the future of food, working in print and her recent return to place-based practice in the community.
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Spaceship Hour

  • 2. May 2022
  • 14 minute read
Alone in space, their relationship with the routine of growing food is the only one our protagonist needs, until they make a mistake. A short story by Jimenez Lai.
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Dairy Non Dairy

  • 3. January 2022
  • 8 minute read
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.
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A Multispecies Banquet

  • 8. September 2021
  • 4 minute read
Designers of the future Superflux's Refuge for Resurgence invokes the symbolic by setting a table for interspecies dialogue in the wreckage of the Anthropocene, writes Alec Carver.
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A New Dutch Production Waterscape

  • 3. September 2021
  • 14 minute read
Designer architect Rianne Makkink talks about her studio's harbour redevelopment plan complete with low-impact food and energy resources: mushrooms, insects, duckweed and seaweed.
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Agriculture of Entanglement

  • 25. February 2021
  • 5 minute read
Architect Jan Gerits proposes a vertical farm that owns itself, a place where humans and non-humans can participate in a symbiotic self-sustaining existence.
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