Don't Waste, MutateA taste of speculative gastronomy

Nico Soballa - Corey McLaughlin - Ágota Vonya Annestina Anthony - Naomi Swagten

Mutating Statistics

“ It takes the same amount of water to produce one kilogram of beef as one year worth of showers (15.000 litres of water).”

“One-third of the food produced world-wide is wasted”

“In Denmark alone, we each year waste 700,000 tons of food that could have been eaten.”

Make people aware that we cannot continue wasting resources as we do nowadays. This can result in many changes and “mutations” which would change our lives radically and disrupt our surroundings forever.

11/11/19

Designing with Food

Painting with food

Using gelatine

11/11/19

Designing with food created a strong bond amongst the team members

Painting with food

Using gelatine

Exploring gelatine bioplasticsForm a sphere

A Taste of the Future

The participants choose their favourite ingredients

A participant shouted after calculating the water of the taco dish: “Wow, that’s a lot.”

13/11/19

They create world-famous dishes

By calculating the amount of water, they become more aware of the water needed for production

Discussing which mutations would happen to the food of the future

This team decided against mutation because they are afraid of the bad consequences

Food, Tastes and Textures

Sour, Sweet and Salty

Explorations of amount of water

The added sugar improved its’ taste

14/11/19

Sour, Sweet and Salty

Adding flavours

The added sugar improved its’ taste

It has a jelly-like texture which floats on my tongue, and once I take a bite, I taste a splash of water.

Ingredients of Mutation

Baking the strings

Add some creamto modify the genes

Baking the DNA cookies

Add jellies on DNA

18/11/19

Add some creamto modify the genes

Add cream on DNA

Baking the DNA cookies

Add jellies on DNA

Printing DNA Cookies

A cookie dough paste recipe from byFlow

18 - 19/11/19

Elzelinde van Doleweerd, who has a 3D food printing company, suggested us to pick an end and a start in the 3D file.

The recipe turned out to be a little bit too dry, so we added some water to make it more fluid.

Brushed dough on, to make it sticky

Difficult to get cookie off the plate

Although this process is very appealing, the cookies were not consistent and broke easily.

It would not stick well

Mixing ingredients19/11/19

Mutations and it’s consequences for each role

Narrating 2121 and its food experience

Aqua Lessarice - Uses less water to grow

Narcissuroxide - Makes it look perfect

Engorgio Incomonate - Increases yields

Enduro Maxima - Longer lasting

Mortus Gonamo - Resistance to disease

Clark Kentoxide - Super seed, increases vitamins and nutrition

Water is scarce

So there is a need to mutate food

There is general unrest surrounding new foods and

their health implications

Hunger has increased among the poor

Small scale and organic farming is no longer possible

Most foods are considered luxury items now

The rich can afford perfectly balanced meals which they

3-D print at home - the ultimate status symbol

Because of this: eating is more of a social activity

than ever before

Farmers rely solely on the seed company to sell them mutated

seeds.

The global government is threatened by the power the seed company is now gaining Posting photos of your food on

social media platforms acts as a social currency.

Food in the year 2121

Narrating 2121 and its food experience

Farmer - wants more yield

Consumer - perfect looking food

Supermarket - longer lasting food

Seed company - sell their seeds to the farmers

Eu - lessen the water footprint

Facilitated Mutations

The participants think of mutations, based on a role

They keep track of the mutations by drawing the shapes next to their names

The company focussed on making food look goodwhile it made less profit

21/11/19

The participants think of mutations, based on a role

The company focussed on making food look goodwhile it made less profit

Provided information about 2121

Limiting the amount of mutations to be selected to 3 provoked a discussion of the most relevant ones.

Mutating the Workshop22 - 24/11/19

Legend of mutations

Description of the role

The DNA cookie

3 mutations

The DNA cookie

Ingredients of mutated food

Adding some peppers

Adding some colouring

Not too spicy

The Final Mutation25/11/19

The participants are introduced to 2121 and their roles

The participantsselected up to 3mutations basedon their role

The participantsselected up to 3mutations basedon their role

The mutated DNA

Some discussion amongthe supermarket group

They could eat it afterwards

Reflecting & Speculating25/11/19

Provide more information about 2121 to make a more informed decision on whether or not mutations are the step forward.

Make use of the surprise element of the first workshop, in which we had the amount of water written on the back of each token.

Include a more in-depth discussion about what we could do today to make mutations more widely accepted, and if mutations will provide a bright future.

Guide the participants into the room and provide them with information so they can start thinking about it before everyone has entered the room.

Nico Soballa - Corey McLaughlin - Ágota Vonya Annestina Anthony - Naomi Swagten