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"The phraseology of agriculture, environment, production, spirituality, and taste, used to create a GI tag, echoes the producer’s voice: profoundly vernacular but dramatically translated to English. And in this colloquial form of expression, their deep-rooted dependency on the water becomes evident. There is hardly an application that is not punctuated with reverence for local water bodies. Water becomes defining in its presence, overabundance, or solemn absence," writes Priya Mani @cookalore in her article "Water: Elixir of Taste" on The Common Table.
"The phraseology of agriculture, environment, production, spirituality,…
"In exporting this Eurocentric philosophy of terroir to the East, the taste of a place transcends trade barriers and food takes on the interests of the context its story is set in. Thus, terroir is extended by nurture – culture, construed by the believers in a particular taste; method, the hand of its producers, and context, its use of local resources," writes Priya Mani @cookalore in her article "Water: Elixir of Taste" on The Common Table.
"In exporting this Eurocentric philosophy of terroir to the East, the…
Water is to India what soil is to Europe, says design researcher Priya Mani: “There is a fundamental difference between considering soil as the basis of taste, as in terroir, and the Indian approach that credits water, or the lack of it, for a food’s intrinsic taste. In India, terroir can be found in the sacrosanct too."
Water is to India what soil is to Europe, says design researcher Priya…
"03:58 am: “My tilapia stock is teeming and thriving. Would you like to diversify your gene pool?”
"03:58 am: “My tilapia stock is teeming and thriving. Would you like to…
"Once a month I get to eat one tilapia. I have to keep at least thirty-six alive in the tank at all times. Sometimes I am a little sad to eat the only other earthlings that keep me company. Alongside my diet, it is vital to maintain a consistent fitness regimen, since my body easily weakens in an environment without gravity. Back on Earth, if you’d told me I’d be eating some kind of a spinach-beet-parsnip-legume concoction as my primary meal for the rest of my life and doing resistance-band daily workouts, I might have said “kill me now”. But here we are, and I am happy to be alive."
"Once a month I get to eat one tilapia. I have to keep at least…
Alone in space, the relationship with the routine of nurturing, eating and excreting is the only one our protagonist needs, but then they make the mistake of moving too close to another human. A systems-based science fiction story written and illustrated by the extraordinary artist, architect, educator, and founder of Bureau Spectacular, Jiminez Lai. Read the full article on thecommontable.eu
Alone in space, the relationship with the routine of nurturing, eating…
“I’m interested in how resistance doesn’t necessarily take the form of heroic acts but is really just embodied in everyday life and desire. I think that’s a familiar thing in Palestine where the continuity of life, or a dignified life, is under constant attack. The act of foraging might not always be a political act or appear to be an act of resistance, but in the context of Palestine, Israel and how the law came into place, it becomes another facet of the resistance against racist laws and policing.” Read the full interview “Foraging As Resistance” with Jumana Manna on our website thecommontable.eu.
“I’m interested in how resistance doesn’t necessarily take the form of…
“Whereas 'Wild Relatives' looks more at the top-down violence, or problems of science with regards to farmers and seed preservation, 'Foragers' is about the top-down violence of colonial laws around preservation practices. What was top-down towards the farmers in the first instance is top-down here towards the pickers – towards those who are actually engaged with the tradition of foraging, and who were not consulted before the law was passed. There is a commonality between the two films in that they are both ways of looking at the contradictions of preservation practices and of the erasures that accompany those preservation practices,” Jumana Manna tells Sophia Hoffinger about her new film 'Foragers', which permiers on the 12th of April 2022 @visionsdureel
“Whereas 'Wild Relatives' looks more at the top-down violence, or…
Ahead of the premiere of her new film 'Foragers', visual artist and filmmaker Jumana Manna talks to Sophia Hoffinger for The Common Table about how she addresses larger political and historical issues through her research and portraits of daily life, be it Syrian farmers trying to save their seed heritage from war or Palestinians exercising their right to forage on their land becoming an act of resistance. A fascinating exchange about how institutions created to preserve have often gone hand in hand with colonial expansion, extraction and erasure, and the age-old question: Who owns the land and who gets to decide what takes place on it?
Ahead of the premiere of her new film 'Foragers', visual artist and…
There tends to be a sense of utopian generalisation when it comes to master plans. How can you persuade a whole nation, brought up eating pretty much whatever they want, to change their diets? How do you differentiate forests grown for wood and other ecologically dysfunctional monocultures? How do you solve the tangled political and ideological issues around dairy farming practice, tradition, subsidy and ecology? But implementation issues aside, the very fact that Luxemburg is asking landscape architects and planners and ecologists to develop such holistic decarbonisation visions on a huge scale with food and people, and soil at the centre, is heartening.
There tends to be a sense of utopian generalisation when it comes to…
Together with Luxemburg architects 2001 @2001_tbsi and landscape and environment practitioners LOLA @lolalandscapearchitects from the Netherlands, 51N4E @51n4e formed a consortium to respond to a call by the Luxemburg Ministry of Energy and Spatial Planning to create a master plan for how the country can effectively and sustainably achieve carbon neutrality by 2050 as per the Paris Agreement. Read more about their plan on our website – link in bio.
Together with Luxemburg architects 2001 @2001_tbsi and landscape and…
A consortium of collectives including architects, urbanists and ecologists have developed a master plan for a whole country, centred around food production. The aim is to make Luxemburg carbon-negative by 2050 by changing diets and land-use practices. Read the full story on thecommontable.eu
A consortium of collectives including architects, urbanists and…
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