In this workshop, directed by Cocinar Madrid, we will cook a delicious menu among all the participants, which we will then share and taste. While we peel potatoes and cut carrots we will be launching concepts: food sovereignty, ecological debt, kilometric food, gender debt... We will talk about how and under what conditions food is produced, where it comes from, what social and ecological costs it has. Together we will elaborate and cook, at the same time that we cook the food, the definitions of these concepts and knowledge to share them and to be able to debate while we enjoy the delicacies

The food research platform Black Almanac operates on the assumption that humans have barely begun to exploit the full spectrum of possibilities for energy and matter that might be understood as “food.” Far from it. In fact, we argue that it is the repetition of a limited repertoire of cultural, culinary, technological and agricultural techniques that is the primary cause of widespread ecological damage suffered in the name of feeding. 

In 12,000 years of agricultural time, human beings have cooked both dishes and the landscapes that produce them. We cook the Earth in order to feed ourselves

The food research platform Black Almanac operates on the assumption that humans have barely begun to exploit the full spectrum of possibilities for energy and matter that might be understood as “food.” Far from it. In fact, we argue that it is the repetition of a limited repertoire of cultural, culinary, technological and agricultural techniques that is the primary cause of widespread ecological damage suffered in the name of feeding. 

In 12,000 years of agricultural time, human beings have cooked both dishes and the landscapes that produce them. We cook the Earth in order to feed ourselves

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

Starting from the conception of the planet as an interdependent metabolic system, the FONDO collective considers cooking a global operation, and food consumption a terraforming process. What does this mean aesthetically? The Synergetic Banquet will try to materialise some of these ideas through a performative installation, which at the same time gathers ideas and reflections worked on during the week in the program of activities Cooking Earth curated by the collective Black Almanac.

The reduced use of land, the diversification of the origins of our food, the automation of processes and