Platform for dialogue on Local Food System Resilience
What?
Digesting the Future is an immersive dining event that allows one to experience how different possible, plausible, or preferable futures might taste, smell, feel, or sound.
Each scenario, and each course invites us to reflect on the values and choices that shape current food systems, discuss where these may lead us to, and confront, often, uncomfortable futures.
Anything from a
- a nutrient-rich, local, fresh, and tasty feast
- nutrient-rich, local, fresh, and tasty feast, through business-as-usual monocrop, processed foods, up to a
- 4-degree warming, food scarcity, and synthetic food replacementsmay land on your plate.
Scenario 1
Scenario 2
Scenario 3
Climatic Futures
Different sections of the table experience distinct climatic realities, from regenerative abundance to extreme scarcity.
Experience Elements:
- I. Regenerative Scenario: Abundant, diverse, locally-sourced meals
- II. Business-as-Usual: Current systems with emerging constraints
- III. 4-Degree Extreme: Scarcity, substitutes, survival foods
Socio–economic Realities
Experience how different communities within the same geography or city eat based on inequality and access.
Explore:
- • Food environment variations across districts
- • Access barriers and food deserts
- • Cultural dietary practices and constraints
Spatial Futures
Two contrasting visions: integrated food systems vs. separated conservation and production.
What's covered
Coming soon...