As part of the Anti-University Festival we organised a 2h virtual workshop on September 8th 2022 at 11am-1pm (UK time) on Zoom. We explored food recipes as a way of capturing culture, history and setting instructions for our future. Participants could use our templates or submit their own recipe.
Inspiration
Lee Miller’s cookbook
How the famous WWII photographer turned to cooking as a form of therapy to help manage her PTSD.
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Sunday’s Kitchen
How this socialite and her husband lived on a converted farmhouse outside of Melbourne, hosted artists, cooked for them and helped grow the modern art scene in Australia.
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Synergetic Stew: Explorations in Dymaxion Dining
A cookbook made by Buckminster Fuller’s friends for his birthday.
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Open here
How you design instructions for engagement with a product, a service, whatever, tends to frame the interaction in specific ways. Instructions are world-building.
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You Don’t Batch Cook When You’re Suicidal
An important article written by Jack Monroe in July 2020.
The Politics of Food
A book documenting the work and reflections of artists. More details.
Toolkits
Understanding the politics of toolkits, where they place their user’s agency and what interactions they control.
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Project Drawdown
An exhaustive list of recommended actions to help manage climate change.
Open sauces
A collection of kinds of food projects and ways of communicating such exercises
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One: Pot, Pan, Planet
A collection of recipes by Anna Jones. More details.
Ideas always come from sustainable sources.
The Low Carbon Design Institute 