Workshop »Metabolic Futures«

With lectures, film screenings, walks, a cooking course and concerts, the "Metabolic Futures" workshop aims to raise awareness of how we can understand and inhabit our changing planet. The event will be held in German and English.

What does industrial agriculture tell us about the current state of the earth? What significance do material changes in the food industry have for our lives? And why should we be concerned about the production and distribution of waste in cities and the countryside?

At the intersection of society and economy, science and art, the "Metabolic Futures" event aims to raise awareness of how we can understand and inhabit our changing planet. It takes the concept of metabolism - the biochemical transformation of substances, the harnessing of organisms for productivity and the circulation of materials in bodies, cities and the environment - as a starting point to address pressing issues such as the health and climate crises.

With lectures, film screenings, walks, a cooking class and concerts, we want to rethink the economic in the light of ecological change and explore the question together: What constitutes a future worth living when a third of the earth's surface is used for animal feed and the biomass of livestock exceeds that of humans on our planet?

With contributions from Andrew Barry, Maan Barua, Rehema Chachage, Kosmas Phan Ðinh, Sonja Dümpelmann, Hanieh Fatouraee, Matthew Gandy, Hannah Landecker, Mert Morali, Víctor Muñoz Sanz, Marco Pando

The event is part of the art, science & business program in cooperation with Künstlerhaus Stuttgart and Raupe Immersatt e.V.

With the kind support of the ERC Horizon 2020 Starting Grant (Urban Ecologies, Grant No. 759239).

Program

Friday, April 4
6 pm | Akademie Schloss Solitude

Saturday, April 5
11 a.m. | Café Raupe Immersatt
4 p.m. | Künstlerhaus Stuttgart

The complete program will be published shortly.