[Commlist] CFP "Imagine European Food Futures" workshop on speculative and participatory methods in food research

Call for participation



  Imagine European Food Futures:


International workshop on speculative and participatory methods in food 
research and action


4 and 5 september 2023

OVALIE experimental platform, Université Jean-Jaurès, Toulouse, France. 
https://www.isthia.fr/plateforme-ovalie/ 
<https://www.isthia.fr/plateforme-ovalie/>



We invite early-career researchers, research-creators, food artists and 
research groups (including PhD students, post-doctoral researchers, 
associations, artists, etc) to apply for participation in a workshop


“Imagine European Food Futures: International workshop on speculative 
and participatory methods in food research and action”


hosted by the OVALIE Experimental Platform for Studying Eating in 
Context (ISTHIA, Université Toulouse II Jean Jaurès) in cooperation with 
the axe SANTAL (health and food) of the CERTOP CNRS and EASST Fund.


How to engage senses and imagination to tell research stories about food 
and eating? This workshop aims to create links between thinkers and 
makers engaging with future-oriented, participatory, creative and/or 
non-conventional ways of knowing food and eating.

Creative and participatory methods in food research and action have 
proven to be fruitful for questioning desirable and undesirable food 
futures with grounding in perception, sensations, and embodied 
knowledge. Some examples of such methods include research-creation, 
serious games, interactive expositions, and speculative designs. In the 
feminist tradition, critical engagement with the future serves to 
problematize epistemological and ontological dispositions of matter, 
subjectivity, and politics, challenging patriarchal embodiments and 
rethinking the possible.

With this double focus - creative participatory methods and 
future-oriented thinking about food - the workshop will form space for 
exchanges, cross-inspirations, and speculations on European food futures.

Our aims are 1. To discuss, share, and mix methods of studying/ 
problematising/ intervening /disrupting possible food futures;

2. To speculate on sense-full collaborative openings between academic 
scientists, civil society organizations, food activists, community 
members, and art groups.

During the workshops, we will cook, eat, share, digest and think 
together, drafting a Cookbook for possible ways to think of European 
food futures. The workshop will take place at the OVALIE experimental 
platform to study eating in context. The participants will become their 
own experimental material : the workshop will be filmed with the help of 
cameras installed in the platform. The footage will later be 
collectively treated and analyzed for further multimodal analysis and 
outcomes (articles, art work, etc).


Participating researchers: BLANC, Nathalie, Centre des Politiques de la 
Terre; LADYSS, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), 
France; DUPUY, Anne, ISTHIA, Université Jean-Jaurès; CERTOP, Centre 
National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), France; ENDALTSEVA, 
Alexandra, CERTOP, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), 
France; GUGGENHEIM, Michael, Dept. of Sociology, Goldsmiths College, 
University of London, Great Britain; LEPRINCE, Solène, AGIR, INRAE, 
France; LANGEN, Nina, Education for Sustainable Nutrition and Food 
Science, TU Berlin, Germany; SCHNEIDER, Tanja, School of Humanities and 
Social Sciences (SHSS), University of St.Gallen, Switzerland; 
STÖCKELOVÁ, Tereza, Institute of Sociology, Czech Academy of Sciences; 
Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Charles University, 
Czech Republic; VOSS, Jan-Peter, Dept. of Society, Technology and Human 
Factors, RWTH Aachen University, Germany.


Eligibility:Early-career researchers, research-creators and/or artists 
working with the theme of food and eating and engaging with 
collaborative, future-oriented and/or non-conventional ways of knowing 
and acting (science fiction, speculative design, gamification, etc). We 
particularly welcome participation from the non-academic community: 
citizen scientists, artists, activists, etc.


Application process: A short biography (maximum 500 words) and an 
extended abstract describing your ongoing project which tackles food 
futures (in a broad sense, which can be food transition, speculation of 
the “food of tomorrow”, public policy analysis, etc) should be sent to 
(alexandra.endaltseva /at/ univ-tlse2.fr) 
<mailto:(alexandra.endaltseva /at/ univ-tlse2.fr)>by the 1st of July 2023. 
Small travel/accommodation allowances are available - please precise in 
your application if you will require financial aid

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