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| (one of four [[food scenarios]] on the topic of [[food futures]]) | (one of four [[food scenarios]] on the topic of [[food futures]]) | ||
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| + | ==== Toast from Transform ==== | ||
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| + | Good evening to you all! | ||
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| + | It looks like they saved me for last along with your dessert. I'm honoured and delighted to bring you some sweetness to end your meal. | ||
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| + | I come from a time where an optimistic ' | ||
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| + | Just like the other stories you've heard, mine begins and ends with food. But there are important differences. While we rely on industrial food production, this happens in closed loops, with minimal threat to the natural environment. We became so proficient in manipulating matter that the old pressures on natural resources have been dramatically reduced. Some of our food is wild, some of it is lab grown. But the majority of our daily diet consists of food grown in our Bucolicities, | ||
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| + | After the successful integration of permaculture design and urban planning to create micro-supply chains, most citizens can subsist on what you would have called " | ||
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| + | As most food production has shifted to labs and cities, the countryside has become filled with sites for regeneration of various eco-systems. While agriculture once focused on food as fuel, our culture sees food as a mutation agent. We are noticing new types of skin-cells that have migrated from our lab-grown plants and enable us to detect environmental toxins. Soon we might even begin to photosynthesize. We are aware of the dangers involved in such close entanglement of technology and biology and we encourage healthy debate with strong moral foundations. Scientific research is beginning to move towards something one of your writers called Thalience – a post science focusing on communication and co-habitation with natural and artificial sentiences. | ||
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| + | To end, I'd like to invite you to join me at the dessert table, and to share with me some of your hopes and visions of a world where the man-made and wildly-grown are no longer at odds and where the intertwingling of human creativity and the abundance of nature can feed us all. When you move to the dessert table, please take your pens with you. Please use the table to write down some highlights of your discussions and your visions for the future of food. | ||
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| + | I leave you tonight with a toast to openness and transformation of food systems, to closing industrial loops and finally, | ||
| + | **to food, well-being, the environment and your health!** | ||
| + | As we say my part of the world: Na zdravlje! | ||
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| + | ==== Transform Scenario ==== | ||
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| Human health is seen as intrinsically linked to health of our environment. The use of antibiotics has become highly regulated in closed-loop food production. While known illnesses are well managed, society is frequently shaken by the emergence of new diseases. There are many unforeseen effects of producing so much of our food in hermetically enclosed technospheres. Reaching the limits of Closed Loop industry, scientific research has moved to previously marginalised domains such as species cohabitation and communication. Northern Europe is known for the excellence of its research in Plant Neurobiology (especially after the Nobel Prize was awarded to the Urban Plant Well-Being Research Group from Edinburgh University). Inverness University was also in the spotlight after publishing the final maps of the Human Microbiome Project. Globally, science education overcome a major shift, allowing shorter “supply chains” from information to wisdom. | Human health is seen as intrinsically linked to health of our environment. The use of antibiotics has become highly regulated in closed-loop food production. While known illnesses are well managed, society is frequently shaken by the emergence of new diseases. There are many unforeseen effects of producing so much of our food in hermetically enclosed technospheres. Reaching the limits of Closed Loop industry, scientific research has moved to previously marginalised domains such as species cohabitation and communication. Northern Europe is known for the excellence of its research in Plant Neurobiology (especially after the Nobel Prize was awarded to the Urban Plant Well-Being Research Group from Edinburgh University). Inverness University was also in the spotlight after publishing the final maps of the Human Microbiome Project. Globally, science education overcome a major shift, allowing shorter “supply chains” from information to wisdom. | ||
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| + | ==== Transform dishes ==== | ||
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| + | This scenario was translated into one of the courses in a tasting menu. The transform scenario was served as a dessert: | ||
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| + | * Absinthe Truffle | ||
| + | * Bubblegum Panna Cotta | ||
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| + | The complete [[food futures]] tasting dinner can be found on the [[latelab menu]] | ||
| ====Notes==== | ====Notes==== | ||
maja