Futures and histories collide! Is it science fiction? time travel? Nope, it’s Food Studies!

Your reading pleasure this weekend = the future of food + a HISTORY of the future of food. (That is, a book review plus a companion media piece, as curated by us…)

Our first featured future is Sarah J. Martin’s review of The Third Plate: Field Notes on the Future of Food, in which chef Dan Barber imagines a meal in which taste and sustainability come together on a single plate. (CFS Vol. 1 No. 2 [2014]): https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v1i2.47

Focusing on future backwards is Meals to Come: A History of the Future of Food, by Warren Belasco. While Barber projects forwards, Belasco looks at how past forecasters proposed futures over the last two hundred years. How often do we repeat ourselves?

#FoodStudies
#FoodSecurity
#FoodHistory
#FoodFutures
#Futuring
#Meals
#WarrenBelasco
#DanBarber

Leverhulme Doctoral Programme for #RegenerativeInnovation* #PhD #Funding at #DundeeUni:
https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPL167/leverhulme-doctoral-programme-for-regenerative-innovation-regnr8-i

Special plug for projects w research group colleagues 😊

1) Regenerating Healthcare Pathways for Equitable Health and Wellbeing
#Futuring #Foresight #Participatory

2) Co-Designing Regenerative Therapeutic Spaces
#Participatory #MixedMethods

#HealthCare #DesignResearch #Regnr8i #Sustainability #Restorative
* More info here:
https://www.dundee.ac.uk/phds/funding/leverhulme-doctoral-scholars-programme

Check this hopeful TED-talk in which Ruha Benjamin imagines Ustopias. 'Ustopias are built on an understanding that all of our struggles, from climate justice to racial justice, are interconnected, that we are interconnected.'
https://www.ted.com/talks/ruha_benjamin_is_technology_our_savior_or_our_slayer

This is more than imagining, it is possibility thinking.
#Commons #Commoning #SolarPunk #Futuring #Technology #PeopleOverProfit #RuhaBenjamin #FocusOpHetGoede

'In fact, the very act of trying to look ahead to discern possibilities and offer warnings is itself an act of hope.’
#DeZinVanHetBoek #TheEssenceOfTheBook

#BoekPerWeek 1/52 ★★★★★

Mijn bespreking in 🇳🇱:
https://verzameldezinnen.nl/2025/01/02/a-few-rules-for-predicting-the-future-boekbespreking/

My review in 🇬🇧 🇺🇸 :
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6992653316

#Boeken @boeken
#Bookstodon @bookstodon

#Scifi #Afrofuturism #Futuring #Toekomsten #Quotes #Citeren #Essay

6.3: Fully Automated! A Solarpunk RPG with Andy Gross

This week on Solarpunk Presents, we’re bringing you an interview with Andy Gross, one of the brilliant minds behind Fully Automated! A Solarpunk TableTop RPG (Role-Playing Game). Don’t worry, you don’t need to know game jargon to follow along for this one - solarpunk storytelling comes in a lot of different forms, and this is yet another kind for people to use to imagine a kinder, greener future that strives towards a utopia … of sorts.

RPGs get a reputation for being all about fighting. How does that work if the RPG is solarpunk? Or utopian even? What is an RPG, in the first place? What is the usefulness of a solarpunk RPG? Join us as we discuss these questions and more.

Art from the Fully Automated website used in episode cover is by Sean Bodley as well as a few other artists and this will get updated to credit them when we track them down :)

#solarpunk #SolarpunkPresentsPodcast #podcast #RPG #roleplayingGame #gaming #gamer #GameDesign #TTRPG #TableTopRolePlaying #TableTop #CharacterCreation #economy #policy #PoliticalSystem #politics #WorldBuilding #Future #futuring #cyberpunk

Season 4 episode 9.5: The Fantasies of Post apocalyptic Dystopian Fiction (Special Extra Bonus Half Episode)

There was so much to explore about post-apocalyptic fiction and the fantasies it allows us to have of, for instance, being the colonized "good guys" instead of the colonizer "bad guys" that we ended up with an entire extra half episode. What is the moral responsibility of reading post-apocalyptic science fiction? How should we feel about enjoying works that position white colonizers as victims?

Here it is! Enjoy!!

https://youtu.be/mBD_OMACgZc?si=uhDrccNnuVJxEmwd

#Episode #Season4 #YouTube #solarpunk #SolarpunkPresentsPodcast #podcast #apocalypse #PostApocalypse #fantasy #DystopianFiction #Dystopia #AntiUtopia #FutureImaginary #Futuring #Scholarship #ScienceFiction #SF #SpeculativeFiction #ApocalypticFiction