Desde las 18:00 hasta 20:00 el 20/10/2022
A round table discussion as part of Cooking Earth, part of the LAB#02 “The Metabolic Sublime” Is cooking art or science? Is it both? We live in an age of culinary conservatism, which is bad news for the planet, our taste buds, and our souls. While many of us strive for radical innovations in art, politics, technology and design, why does the world of food and agriculture seem so hopelessly difficult to change? To celebrate Cooking Earth at Medialab-Matadero – a week of workshops, lectures and events dedicated to questions of food system transformation – we will convene a group of expert scientist-chefs, cultural producers and researchers to decode the ancient circularity between kitchens, laboratories, and the databases that coordinate them. It was the domestication of fire that first alerted humans to the world-shaping power of chemistry, a tool embraced in recipes that span from bombs to cordon bleu. Join...