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Emerge 2022: Eating at the Edges
Emerge: A Festival of Futures provides people of all ages and walks of life with tools for examining the role that science and technology play in society. It does so by inviting participants to use all of their senses through hands-on experiences to investigate “What kind of future do we want to make?” By bringing together artists, scientists, humanists, designers, and other performers and scholars, Emerge draws on ASU’s diverse array of world-renowned researchers and its culture of interdisciplinary exchange to create vibrant portraits of alternative futures. Emerge curates art, technology, performance and interactive narrative to invite everyone to participate in what’s to come by making it tangible and accessible, here and now.
Like many large public events, Emerge was postponed in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The next Emerge will take place on Nov. 19, 2022, at the Mesa Arts Center and ASU’s Media and Immersive eXperience Center in Mesa, Arizona. Its theme, “Eating at the Edges,” asks what it means to eat in a world of increasing environmental extremes. Food is an important part of cultural, social and economic life. Access to healthy and good food impacts people all over the planet, while how we produce food plays a critical role in climate futures. Join artists, scientists and futurists in this one-day event to explore the future of food.
Bring your hands, noses and mouths — they are critical tools! Together, we will think and taste our way through asking what alternative forms of food production, distribution and consumption we should consider to build a more inclusive, equitable and delicious culinary world.
