● A Mediterranean Garden

Anemon (EL)

Bank Of Cyprus Cultural Foundation (CY), Cyprus Food And Nutrition Museum (CY), Fondazione Brescia Musei (IT), Goethe Institut Ev (DE), Idryma Nikolaou And Dollis Goulandri - Mouseio Kykladikis Texnis (EL)

State of the art

Many studies show that the better the adherence to the Mediterranean diet, the lower the water, land, and energy use and greenhouse gas emissions.

Description of the project

The Mediterranean Diet is an age-old tradition that provides creative and low cost solutions to urgent global issues such as health and environmental sustainability. These solutions are easy to apply to our daily lives and rely on local and seasonal produce that help fight climate change. The Mediterranean Garden aims to raise awareness about the Mediterranean Diet and the sustainable way of life that this food tradition expresses, through a project of high artistic and educational value that places audience engagement at the center of its activities.

It mainly looks at how eating a plant based diet can contribute to the wellbeing of people and of the planet while helping the audience reflect on the importance of food in daily life and how specific changes in one’s lifestyle can generate wider changes.

This Mediterranean diet can play an important role in biodiversity conservation, food wastage reduction, and climate change mitigation. Our project will highlight these elements.

Creative Europe’s support

The project aims to show that the Mediterranean Diet does not belong to a specific state or ethnic group, but is a tradition that is widely shared across the Mediterranean and today even by countries in central and Northern Europe.

#intangible heritage #food #health #audience development #biodiversity #wellbeing

Beyond Environmental Sustainability

While the project mainly touches on the diverse facets of the Mediterranean Diet it also looks at the prominence of women in safeguarding this tradition and encourages the digitalization of family photographs that reveal aspects of this age-old food tradition.

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