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Exhibition

Food Revolution 5.0 - Gestaltung für die Gesellschaft von morgen

Date
Friday, 19 May 2017
Location
Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg
Country
Germany

Food is a symbol of life itself, giving us an identity, a home, and many of the cultural rules we live by. For the ethnologist Claude Lévi-Strauss, cooking food was human beings’ first cultural act and thus marked the beginning of civilization and craftsmanship. In today’s affluent society, however, food has evolved into a creative means of self-expression and almost an ersatz religion.