London's V&A shows what the future of food could look like in its latest exhibition Food: Bigger than the Plate, which takes visitors through a full food cycle from compost to plate.
The show is structured into four parts ? compost, farming, trading and eating ? in a bid to give visitors a sense of where they might fit into the food system, and where they stand in the ongoing debates about the future of food.
From cheese made from celebrity bacteria to mushrooms grown from coffee grounds taken from the V&A cafe, the show includes over 70 projects by artists and designers working with chefs, farmers, scientists and local communities.
GroCycle's featured Urban Mushroom Farm project uses waste coffee grounds from the V&A cafe to grow edible mushrooms "Food is one of the most powerful tools through which we shape the world we live in, from how we create society, culture and pleasure to how we determine our relationship with the natural world," said co-curators Catherine Flood and May Rosenthal Sloan.
"In an era of major ecological challenges, fast-changing societies and technological re-invention, now is a crucial moment to ask not just what will we be eating tomorrow, but what kind of food future do we want" What could it look like" And taste like"" they continued.
The museum hopes to encourage visitors to think about how the collective choices they make can lead to a more sustainable and fair food future.
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