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Adapt & Act Issue 2 - Becoming A Food Citizen
Our food system is broken. It is vital we re-think that system and the civic role of food. The growing debates on food inequality and inaccessibility, as well as on the right of communities to control the way food is produced, traded and consumed, show how food is political.
Food can be an act of solidarity. It can be used to explore social relationships and the places where we live. The table becomes a way of telling stories. Performative meals can be used as tools for addressing social concerns and political dilemmas.
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As we moved our sessions online, our project which is firmly rooted locally to the Rumpus studio in Govanhill, was suddenly able to connect with young people around the world from Portugal to Norway to India. For ‘Becoming a Food Citizen’ workshops, young people came together to ask how we could use food as a way to care for our communities we are a part of and to imagine alternative food systems based on equality, fairness and justice.
The sessions were split into four themes Food as an act of solidarity, Food, community & identity, Food & cultural sharing and Food utopias & the environment. The magazine follows these themes with introductions from the workshops and contributions from young people involved.
To support the workshops Camilla worked with Jess Routley (daikon*) to produce a Becoming a Food Citizen workbook that is available as a free resource to be used at home or in other local working groups settings. Scan the QR code here to access it!
As an outcome of the ‘Becoming a Food Citizen’ workshops and publication a young persons food working group has formed at Rumpus Room for young people who live locally to the studio in Govanhill in Glasgow. The group hosts monthly meetings to continue to explore food as a civic tool and plan ways they can activate some of the ideas in this publication in the places we live in.
The magazine includes contributions from Beth Cloughton, Ellie Begley, Thalia Groucott, Asta Marie Tutavae Iversen, Eleanor Moselle and Parul Nayar from the group alongside contributions from 3 artists & designers working in food and environmental practices that inspire us; Annika Hasteen-Izora, Joss Allen and Sean Roy Parker.
