JUICE: Food, Energy, Design

Doors of Perception 9 takes place in New Delhi at India Habitat Centre
on Saturday 3 March. The theme of the conference is "Juice: Food,
Energy, Design". It is followed in the evening by a social technologies
bazaar. Doors 9 is preceded by an evening Mediawalla Festival produced
by Pixelache. On Sunday 4 April all participants are invited a Holi
party.

WHY FOOD AND ENERGY AS AN ISSUE?

Global food systems are not sustainable. Industrialised food consumes
ten times more energy in production and distribution than enters our
bodies as nutrition. In 'developed' countries, the food consumption of a
single family generates eight tonnes of CO2 emissions a year. This
madness is enabled by non renewable fossil fuel. But what to do? Doors 9
breaks the food systems issue into bite-sized design chunks. See also:
http://www.doorsofperception.com/archives/food/

WHY THE THEME "JUICE"?

To do things differently, we need to perceive things differently. How we
think about food is as important as the design steps we take to change
the system. Food continuously circulates through the landscape into our
homes and bodies; it thereby organizes our calorific, symbolic and
social energies. In south Asian cultures juice, the essence of food, can
also mean credit, electricity, access, flavor, and love. Doors 9 is
about food as metaphor as well as system - as culture, as well as
consumption.