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Dagna Jakubowska and Joanna Gawrońska - Kula

The Future Bread

>> at the Rainis and Aspazija House


Today, our desires and consumption habits are shaping the environment and driving climate change with far greater force than geological phenomena. We are facing the sixth great wave of species’ extinction in the Earth’s history – the annihilation of entire ecosystems. Temperatures and sea levels are rising, glaciers are melting. The weather is becoming more extreme, the strength of hurricanes and cyclones is growing, droughts and floods are threatening crops. The stream of climate refugees is about to increase, and with it, potential conflicts. Along with the climate crisis comes the food crisis.


As we face new challenges of survival and nutrition, we would like to propose an emergency food kit – The Future Bread – a survival menu on a damaged planet. We take into consideration the autumn context of the Harvest Festival and the moment of stockpiling for the challenging winter period. The Future Bread is: – a practical collection of bread recipes – for times of crisis; an attempt to create prototypes of the bread of the future – a concrete food solution allowing a reduction in the exploitation of the planet; a project for a more sustainable diet in harmony with the rhythms of nature – a warning for the future, a record of different climate and food scenarios for our planet.


The result is a series of innovative, experimental recipes and dishes based on different future scenarios. The focus is primarily on imaginative speculation about what the bread of the future will look like, between utopian hope (and abundance) and possible apocalypse.