{"id":42260,"date":"2025-02-28T15:27:31","date_gmt":"2025-02-28T14:27:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/?post_type=event&p=42260"},"modified":"2025-04-03T18:18:17","modified_gmt":"2025-04-03T16:18:17","slug":"metabolic-futures","status":"publish","type":"event","link":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/en\/event\/metabolic-futures\/","title":{"rendered":"Workshop \u00bbMetabolic Futures\u00ab"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"template":"","categories":[647,645,646,637,657],"class_list":["post-42260","event","type-event","status-publish","hentry","category-concert","category-film-screening","category-screening","category-talk","category-workshop"],"acf":{"bgcolor":"","bgcolor_custom":"","custom_color_css_variable":"","content_type":[{"acf_fc_layout":"content_txt","bgcolor":"","bgcolor_custom":"","layout_col_size":8,"txt_cols":"is-1-txtcol","txt":"What does industrial farming have to say about the state of today\u2019s planet? What is the relevance of material change in food systems for our lives? And why should we be concerned about the generation and circulation of waste in cities and the wider countryside?<\/span>\r\n\r\nMetabolism, or the biochemical transformation of stuff, the harnessing of organisms for productivity, and the circulation of materials across bodies, cities and environments, might seem an unlikely entry-point into urgent contemporary concerns, climate and health crises, and the future of humankind. Yet, with the biomass of livestock outstripping that of humans on the planet, and a third of the earth\u2019s surface dedicated to animal feed, metabolism is pivotal for engaging future livability.\r\n\r\nCutting across society and economy, science and art, Metabolic Futures<\/em> will initiate a much-needed conversation of how to understand and inhabit an altered planet. Opening up a transformed world hidden in plain sight, Metabolic Futures<\/em> stimulates a different public awareness of the metabolism that drives society, economy and ecology, thereby prompting future ways of living well. Together we want to rethink the economic in light of environmental change and put our attention on the social fault-lines along which disruption is embodied.\r\n\r\nWith contributions by Andrew Barry, Maan Barua, Uli Beisel, Rehema Chachage, Claudia Dietz, <\/span>Kosmas Phan \u00d0inh, Hanieh Fatouraee, Giovanni Galizia, Matthew Gandy, Juli Gebhardt, Davina H\u00f6ll, Hannah Landecker, Hannah Liya, Mert Moral\u0131<\/span>, V\u00edctor Mu\u00f1oz Sanz, Marco Pando, Stephen Wright\r\n\r\nThe event is part of the art, science & business<\/em> program, in cooperation with K\u00fcnstlerhaus Stuttgart and Raupe Immersatt e.V.. <\/span>\r\n\r\nWith kind support from the ERC Horizon 2020 Starting Grant (Urban Ecologies, Grant No. 759239)."},{"acf_fc_layout":"content_program","program_title":"","program_el":[{"bgcolor":"has-bg-yellow","bgcolor_custom":"","program_el_content_collapsible":true,"program_el_content_collapsible_init_state":true,"program_el_content_headline":"Friday, April 4, 2025 ","program_el_content":[{"program_el_content_left":"6 pm ","program_el_content_right":"Welcome & Introduction <\/span>\r\n\r\nWhere: Akademie Schloss Solitude<\/span>","program_el_content_img":null},{"program_el_content_left":"6:30 pm","program_el_content_right":"Distilled, Emulsified, Suspended: On Viscosity and Time in the Metabolism of Mass Production<\/em><\/span>\r\nKeynote Lecture by Hannah Landecker<\/span>\r\n\r\nThe lecture will be held in English.\r\nWhere: Akademie Schloss Solitude<\/span>","program_el_content_img":null},{"program_el_content_left":"8 pm","program_el_content_right":"Grains of Fragility<\/em>\r\nSound Piece by Mert Moral\u0131<\/span>\r\n\r\nWhere: Akademie Schloss Solitude<\/span>","program_el_content_img":null},{"program_el_content_left":"8:30 pm","program_el_content_right":"Foodsharing-Dinner<\/span>\r\n\r\nWhere: Akademie Schloss Solitude<\/span>","program_el_content_img":null}]},{"bgcolor":"has-bg-yellow","bgcolor_custom":"","program_el_content_collapsible":true,"program_el_content_collapsible_init_state":true,"program_el_content_headline":"Saturday, April 5, 2025","program_el_content":[{"program_el_content_left":"11 am","program_el_content_right":"Pick Your Substance<\/em>\r\nInvestigative Schnippel-Aktion<\/span>\r\n\r\nHave you ever wondered about all the substances in the ingredient lists of daily foods? The workshop at the foodsharing Caf\u00e9 Raupe Immersatt invites you to take a closer look at exactly these different materials. We will pick substances from a list of ingredients, prepare food together and get in conversation with invited scientists, who are experts on how food industries work and on the topic of metabolism. While we prepare snacks and eat them, we want to learn together about the cycles of the substances: How and where are they produced? In what way do they influence our bodies? And what are the ecological and social consequences of this production?<\/span>\r\n\r\nThe workshop will be held in German and English.\r\nWhere: Caf\u00e9 Raupe Immersatt<\/span>","program_el_content_img":null},{"program_el_content_left":"2 pm","program_el_content_right":"Soundwalk: Listening to Leaks\r\n<\/em>Urban Sound Walk with Kosmas Phan \u00d0inh<\/span>\r\n\r\nHow can listening become porous \u2013 an act of rearranging (inner and outer) space? How are our bodily digestive and fluid systems rhythmically related to the surround? And which sounds have been sidelined to the margins of urban spaces? Via listening exercises, live field recordings and sonic transmissions, the soundwalk with Kosmas Phan \u00d0inh is an invitation to explore these questions collectively. Along several stations in Stuttgart\u2019s west, such as the amphibious ecology of the Feuersee, you are invited to walk, digest and listen together \u2013\u00a0while slowly dissolving in the intervals of urban metabolism.<\/span>\r\n\r\nThe walk will be held in English.\r\nWhere: Meeting point at Caf\u00e9 Raupe Immersatt<\/span>","program_el_content_img":null},{"program_el_content_left":"4 pm","program_el_content_right":"A communal table gathering with<\/span>\r\n\r\nPlanetary Metabolism and Chemical Geography,<\/span><\/em> a lecture by Andrew Barry on the relation between the metabolism of living bodies and global political economy &<\/span>\r\n<\/span>Cowborgs in the Polder: True Type,<\/span><\/em> a video presentation by V\u00edctor Mu\u00f1oz Sanz on the design logic behind contemporary animal breeding to maximize dairy production.<\/span>\r\n\r\nThe Metropolis and Metabolic Life, <\/span><\/em>a video presentation by Maan Barua, that draws on a visual ethnography of broiler chickens in India to unravel relations between cities, economies and the urbanization of nature &\r\nSofreh #1, <\/em><\/span>a video screening by Hanieh Fatouraee of an experimental performance reflecting the uncanny public exhibitory activities where people place excessive bread around the city of Istanbul.\r\n<\/span>\r\n\r\nUrban Metabolism Redux, <\/span><\/em>a talk by Matthew Gandy on multispecies metabolic entanglements, on cities and their agricultural hinterlands, and on alternative metabolic readings of urban space & <\/span>\r\nInvasive Exotic,<\/span><\/em> an artistic investigation by Marco Pando on what would happen if the Bauhaus extended its principles to invasive plants.<\/span>\r\n\r\nThe Open Weave I,<\/span><\/em> a video screening by Rehema Chachage in which we encounter cross-legged figures weaving plucked flowers into a long, growing chain. The work is an invitation for us to reconsider how our bodies, gestures, and environments remain entangled, and how, through acts of making and remembering, we might continue to weave futures that acknowledge and honor the past.<\/span>\r\n\r\nThe contributions will be held in English.\r\nWhere: K\u00fcnstlerhaus Stuttgart<\/span>","program_el_content_img":null},{"program_el_content_left":"8 pm","program_el_content_right":"What You Eat Eats\r\n<\/em>Roundtable discussion with Giovanni Galizia, Davina H\u00f6ll, and Hannah Liya, moderated by Stephen Wright<\/span>\r\n\r\nIs reality initially a food? That is, the upshot of past digestions, to be digested in turn, in an endless metabolic loop? The roundtable What You Eat Eats<\/em> bridges an afternoon of looking with an evening of eating together. A dinner panel seems as good a place as any to follow chemical geographies to the moment of their digestion, the threshold where the body meets the world. To what extent are strictly materialist understandings of the metabolic compatible with the more figurative usages which this gathering invites us to consider?\u00a0<\/span>\r\n\r\nThe roundtable discussion will be held in English.<\/span>\r\nWhere: K\u00fcnstlerhaus Stuttgart<\/span>","program_el_content_img":null},{"program_el_content_left":"9 pm","program_el_content_right":"Mixed Pickles Dinner<\/span><\/em>\r\nWith Claudia Dietz and Juli Gebhardt<\/span>\r\n\r\nWhere: K\u00fcnstlerhaus Stuttgart<\/span>","program_el_content_img":null}]}]},{"acf_fc_layout":"content_sponsors","sponsors":[{"sponsor_name":"In cooperation with","sponsor_link":"https:\/\/www.raupeimmersatt.de\/","sponsor_img":42280},{"sponsor_name":"","sponsor_link":"https:\/\/kuenstlerhaus.de\/","sponsor_img":42315}]},{"acf_fc_layout":"content_sponsors","sponsors":[{"sponsor_name":"With kind support by","sponsor_link":"https:\/\/erc.europa.eu\/homepage","sponsor_img":42276},{"sponsor_name":"","sponsor_link":"https:\/\/climateandnature.impactmap.cam.ac.uk\/urban-ecologies-governing-nonhuman-life-in-global-cities\/","sponsor_img":42283}]}]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event\/42260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/event"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}