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Baking Bread in Bospolder-Tussendijken

In the exhibition In Search of the Pluriverse, artist, cook and weaver Aslı Hatipoğlu hands out sachets of sourdough culture, micro-organisms with which you can make dough for your own bread at home. Because baking bread together is even more fun, she welcomes you and your dough to the outdoor oven at De Stoker bakery in Bospolder-Tussendijken, Rotterdam.

18 May 2022 14:00 - 16:00

Still from: Digesting emotions, fermenting consciousness, 2020 © Aslı Hatipoğlu

Sourdough Revolution, Kombucha Culture

Artist, weaver and cook Aslı Hatipoğlu observes the relationship between humans and microbes. The kitchen is her laboratory. Cooking and sharing food always results in stories. Hatipoğlu builds a world in which she blends psychology, history, ecology, spirituality and science into new recipes. To nurture and observe a kombucha culture raises questions about the separation between inner and outer worlds: are emotions and experiences tangible in the skin? Does the skin, that in-between layer, negotiate between inside and outside? Listen.

Time to Harvest

It's autumn. The summer heat feels like a memory. Shadows grow longer, the sun is low, there's a chill in the air: time to harvest the crops. It's the end of the day, a moment to evaluate our learnings, stock up for winter, and consider what we will do tomorrow. Can we design futures with a future? Canadian Indigenous writer Leanne Betasamosake Simpson says: " How we live, how we organise, how we engage in the world -- the process -- not only frames the outcome, it is the transformation. The how moulds and then gives birth to the present. The how changes us." Wong and Krier's pluriversal guide Arturo Escobar puts it this way: " We need to recover our future-imagining capacity to counter what Australian design theorist Tony Fry calls 'the defuturing effects of modern design'. By which he means, design's contribution throughout history to conditions that eliminate possible futures." Read more

Welcome to our Search for the Pluriverse - a world in which many worlds can thrive.

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