Serendipity and Gastrophysics

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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A Landscape Sublime

In our exclusive interview, speculative architect Liam Young explains why his new film Planet City is a future fiction designed to stimulate the mass(ive) ideological shift necessary for future survival on earth.
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