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- | ==== Food Scenarios | + | ==== Food scenarios |
- | 'Four Generic Futures' | + | 'Four Generic Futures' |
- | ==== Continue ==== | + | The scenarios were translated into a five course [[latelab_menu|tasting dinner]] (with the Discipline scenario split into two courses). We designed dishes that would illustrate the tastes, ingredients and processes likely to be used in food and cooking in each of the four scenarios. |
- | [[food scenarios continue|scenario | + | At the dinner, as a dish was served, the host proposed discussion topics/ |
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- | [[food scenarios collapse|scenario description]] | + | === Continue === |
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- | After a series of extreme weather events, economic crises and pandemics, it was time for a disciplined descent. The local, national and transnational institutions from the top-down and grass roots initiatives from the bottom-up have began regulating and curbing excess in all aspects of life, from population control to amount and type of food consumed. The regulatory system has imposed taxes and fines enforced by the lifestyle police: production, distribution and consumption of food are highly constrained and regulated. This is the heyday of certification bureaucracy | + | [[food scenarios continue|Continue scenario]] where the world continues business as usual, organic agriculture |
- | Where top-down regulations aren’t effective, social enforcement is: neighbours and friends will report misconduct "for your own good", and punishments are readily accepted as character building. Supply chains are as short as possible, creating small community enclaves with strict immigration procedures. In these enclaves cradle-to-cradle practices are created and protected through customs and rituals. Seed exchanges are authorised and regulated through transnational social networks. Bali (and its traditional agricultural system) and Switzerland are depicted as ideal social organisations where community, religion and economy are tightly intertwined. Food is produced using sustainable farming technologies and ultra-optimised agro-ecology and smart feedback systems. The food supply chain is contained in a circular economy with recycling as a highly valued activity. Outside of the supply chain, environmental protection and rewilding are attempts to conserve what little non-polluted environment is left. | ||
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+ | [[food scenarios discipline|Discipline scenario]], where humanity learns from our mistakes and enforces/ | ||
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+ | [[food_scenarios_transform|Transform scenario]], a future thriving on closed-loop industries, living in green food-forests or Bucolicities, | ||
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+ | ==== Design process ==== | ||
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+ | The scenarios above focusing on the evolution of the relationship between food, well-being and the environment are designed by Nik Gaffney, Rasa Alksnyte, Michka Melo and Maja Kuzmanovic in April 2014. In this experiment we tested two techniques from our [[background|background research]]: the CLA (or causal layered analysis) and "four generic futures" | ||
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+ | To construct the scenarios we used "the four generic futures" | ||
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+ | We then translated the scenarios into the types of tastes, ingredients and processes that we could use in Scotland in early spring, and created the sketch of a five course [[latelab_menu|tasting menu]], that we refined with Ginny Hunter, the chef who prepared the food in Edinburgh. The final menu consisted of a wild garlic soup, a beetroot and blue cheese tart, fried potato-skins with seaweed, vegetarian shepherd’s pie, bubblegum panna-cotta with absinthe truffles, served paired with local beers and whiskeys. This was the first time that we created a food event where we didn’t cook ourselves. It has proven feasible, although we concluded that we prefer being in the kitchen ourselves… | ||
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+ | Instead of cooking the dinner, Nik and Maja were hosts of the evening. We invited the participants to imagine being at a gala dinner, where delegates from different futures came to speak to them about food in the times in which they lived. As the budget for the event was tight, I role-played all the delegates myself and proposed toasts to resilience of food and cooking, to surviving the collapse of food and agribusiness, | ||
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