Speculative Dinner Performance – Superfood of Draught

UnDesignUnit takes the successful format of the Speculative Dinner Performance further under the title “Superfood of Draught” in cooperation with various partners from culture and civic society.

What will we eat in 2050? The Speculative Dinner Performance ventures to look into the future and asks how we will nourish ourselves when the conditions for food production in our latitudes will be transformed by increasingly dry conditions and other climatic changes. Will we grow exotic fruit in our regions or rely on salt-tolerant plants that prosper with sea water? Will ancient hyperlocal crops or edible wild plants prevail over hyper-seasonal products of globalization that are available all year long like the tomato or avocado? Will seaweed become an important source of nutrients in extreme climate conditions? Or will the undemanding and protein-rich quinoa become a new staple food for us?

UnDesignUnit has developed a menu in collaboration with Christine Krauss (ChirpFood), which takes three future scenarios as a point of departure asking what might disappear from our menu, and what might enter it? And how do these futures taste?

The dishes are based on three potential future scenarios and offer, in combination with customized interactive elements, a playful and sensual participative event which may inspire us to challenge our eating habits and to further our sense of taste.

While we are tasting possible ingredients and dishes, we reflect on the possible courses of action we have in the here and now in addressing the challenges of climate change and its multi-faceted causes,  and we discuss with invited guests from theory, research and practice the extent to which the scenarios, or individual assumptions underlying the scenarios, are likely to be true.