<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">Shu Lea,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">This is so wonderful.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I co-led a series of workshops with geographer Valentine Cadieux in 2014 in Minneapolis, around the idea of eating the future.</div><div class="">The workshops were hosted by the U of MN and Northern Lights.</div><div class="">We engaged about 25 participants (artists, writers, food historians, architects), who rotated in and out over 2 days, culminating in a "food prototyping" session at the U of Minnesota’s Nash galleries.</div><div class="">Food prototyping consisted of procuring ingredients and stuffs that could approximate the scenarios we invented. </div><div class="">We then cooked and assembled these edible prototypes together, and retold out stories to the group and whomever else happened to be wandering through the galleries.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">What would a picnic look like in the future?</div><div class="">The workshops consisted of picking from 7 constraints out of paper bags - weather conditions (drought, heat, rains, unpredictability), food types (big ag, foraging, ultra-local, store-bought), picnic hosts (aliens, corporate boosterism), picnic context (a child’s birthday, a government event), material availability (used petrochem, scavenged)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">One of the scenarios we developed rhymed very well with yours: </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Our subject was Taste Drought.</div><div class="">Corporations control all tastes and flavors. </div><div class="">364 days a year, you eat bland tasteless food (unless you are rich). It is illegal to cultivate your own gardens or anything wild. </div><div class="">On your birthday, a corporation sends you a flavor pack. </div><div class="">Of course a black market for wild tastes springs up. </div><div class="">Dime-bag sellers of wild mint leaves lurk in every alley… </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">We prototyped this together by serving millet tacos, then making big mac communion wafers (yes, the whole thing minus the wrapper put in a food processor, then dehydrated) and bagging wild mint...</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">pics here: <a href="http://o-matic.com/ssc/futTop.html" class="">http://o-matic.com/ssc/futTop.html</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Marina</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Mar 15, 2016, at 5:13 AM, shu lea cheang <<a href="mailto:shulea@earthlink.net" class="">shulea@earthlink.net</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="">I post the scenario here for some bounce off---<br class=""><br class="">"The year is 2030. After years of cross-breeding and genetic modification, the GMO seeds have failed to produce. The vast farmlands are left barren. The seeds saved from biodiversity era have gone underground, cultivated by the RESISTANCE farmers.<br class=""><br class="">The GOVERNMENT pipes out synthetic liquid food for mass consumption. The citizens are entitled 1000ml liquid food bag per day for nourishment. The food DEPOTS, built like the old style gas stations, are set up for liquid refill. Smelless, tasteless, colorful liquid bearing names of old farm produces (i.e. apple, beans, carrots, dikons etc.) gives illusions of real food flavors.<br class=""><br class="">Rise up troupes of RESISTANCE farmers who search the old time produces and recipes to re-create the smell of home cooking. They build themselves small mobile kitchens. Cooking and moving<br class="">along secret alleyways, they bring back the smell of real food and the joy of eating. The food conscious citizens chase and follow the smell of home cooking. Gather around mobile kitchens, they share<br class="">meal time and stories together."<br class=""><br class=""></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></body></html>