Responsible Consumption and Degrowth
Excess, acceleration and the way we consume food and purchase products not only impact our private lives but also have a direct effect on the climate crisis and the global economy. At a time when it is hard to escape the invasive marketing campaigns, we're offering a series of conferences and articles to help all of us stop a moment and reflect on what we buy, how we eat, how we are growing.
Serge Latouche
Degrowth as a Way Out of the Crisis
Serge latouche, economist and growth objector, on the solutions to the current crisis that degrowth can bring. Over the years of speculative and financial euphoria, it was quite common to find newspaper headlines proclaiming that the economy was doing well, but people weren't. This was a result ...
Rüdiger Safranski
About time
Reflecting on time is a recurrent concern in literature, philosophy and religion. The old enigma, however, has become a new problem because experience of time in the modern world changes in essential ways every day. How much acceleration can the human being bear? How is it possible to achieve ...
Jonathan Safran Foer
A provocative look at the subject of eating
The writerJonathan Safran Foer presents Comer animales, the Spanish language version of Eating Animals. The author of the successful novels Everything is Illuminated and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close started writing this book when ...
Unknown Fields Division (Kate Davies & Liam Young)
The Influencers 2017
To meet our insatiable need for mineral and organic resources, we have stained rivers, razed forests and extended deserts. The objects we use every day carry within them the trace of this transformation. Every item of clothing is the product of systems that span the entire planet. Unknown Fields ...
Eat the world
Soy cámara online
Screenplay, direction and editing: Montse Pujol Solà Language: English, Spanish Duration: 16 minutes Synopsis: Fish from Senegal, fruit from Brazil and rice from China. The simple action of taking a product from ...
Agroecology: a holistic view of the food system
Marta Guadalupe Rivera Ferre
Unlike industrial systems, in agroecology everything is related: from the cultivating of the land to the way food is prepared for eating.
(des)vestim(la): art and responsible consumption
Ricard Espelt & Enric Senabre
An artistic and co-creation intervention at El Konvent in Berga which reflects on the hidden aspects of consumption and the traceability of food products.
The life of toys: a moral journey
Soy cámara online
After the Christmas orgy of consumption, in which children are the main victims of many advertising campaigns, we offer a critical work about toys and their treatment in the audiovisual world. “Play is the mother of all habits” said Walter Benjamin, and based on this and other ideas, ...
