Miso from Zeeland, transition protein paste

 

In 2020 we made miso at a farm in Zeeland. Now it became a commercial product.

We have been making around 25kg of miso made from the Dutch fava beans. Arne Hendrinks invited me to think together with him recipes for the protein transition. Consequently I thought of Marike Goren and her capacity of transforming beans into miso. Arne called Cor, a farmer with a big farm in Zeeland which also cultivated Dutch fava beans but wanted to walk a new paths with the farm. Finally we met and made it happen. You can see the making off in my IG. This year we could taste it. During the @dutchdesignweek the batch was opened and enjoyed! Wellcome Dutch Miso! #dutchmiso #favabeans

Dissalination Machine

Oceanic Imaginaries
How can we liquefy our ways of being? How can we think from and with the ocean? 
How would be the kitchen appliancses in the near future ?
What kind of machines will we have next to the coffee and the toaster? 
Would we have these yet?

We wanted to speculate on this and other questions during the Oceanic Imagenaries Studium Generale.

Seawater is rich in minerals which have market interest. With the large demand of salt in many geographical areas, producing salt. The most widely applied and commercially available technologies for sea water desalination can be divided in two types: membrane processes and thermal processes. During the workshop at Studium Generale we will think together and will try to assume and design future domestic machinery. How would be our kitchen in 50/60 years ? Due to water sea level rising will we have a ‘desalination machine’ at home? Will the refrigerator still be necessary ? 

Envisioning an Underwater World
During this workshop, workshop chef and teacher Asia Komarova with engineer and artist Mauricio van der Maesen de Sombreff and the student participants imagine an underwater world, after sea level rise and global heat. What remains? Where are we going? How will we live? And what does sustainability mean when there are few resources left. We learn to think critically about the future of our homes, our food and our relationships (human and non-human). In the morning we dwell on these topics. For lunch we cook with ingredients from the sea. In the afternoon we build our own desalination machine together.

Sjellik and the 75 years of Jan van Eyck Academie

 

The Travelling Farm Museum of Forgotten Skills is a participatory, mobile museum where artists, citizens, and farmers share stories about their relationship to food and the landscape. Comprised of The Outsiders collective in collaboration with Casco Art Institute, they operate vehicles that physically and symbolically convey ideas about food sovereignty, ecology, and relationality to different local publics. By visiting farms and food producers and connecting heritage skills to present challenges, they create tools for listening and dialogue that connect environmental care with art and critical pedagogies.

Travelling Farm Museum’s latest iteration centers around the figure of the mooswief (Limburg dialect for “vegetable woman”), an expression used to describe rural women who in the past would come to Maastricht to sell their goods at the weekly market. Each year a larger-than-life marionette of the mooswief is hoisted up a pole in the city’s market square to inaugurate the Carnival festive season. Just as Carnival celebrates the return of light and a renewed spring, the mooswief has come to symbolize fertility and a deep connection to the land. Shepherding her spirit along this journey are memories and lore of sjellik, a once ubiquitous but now largely disappeared local cruciferous vegetable.

Formerly a wagon covered in mirrors to blend into the surrounding landscape, the Travelling Farm Museum of Forgotten Skills now bears a kaleidoscopic image of the Maastricht city border and its neighboring farmlands. Accompanied by a soundscape of the countryside, The Outsiders move as mooswiefs through the public square, engaging those around them in a conversation about food, heritage, and the possibility for a common future.

For the 75th Jan van Eyck anniversary we cooked a communal meal together with the Food Lab and served to the guests. Here Sjellik was roasted on the bbq and served with asparagus and mushrooms. Further we took the Sjellik home and pickled the leaves. Here is the recipe: Take the sjellik leafs and wash them carefully. Remove the midribs by cutting them with a knife. Bring water to boil with a pinch of salt and add the leaves. Boil for 10 min. In the meantime prepare your pickling pots by sterilizing (also boiling in hot water) for 5 minutes. Include the tops of the pots. When ready reserve. When the leaves are boiled, zeef them and you can start to fill the pots by adding a spoon of sea salt, spoon of sugar, and herbs that you find interesting. Add vinagre. I added coriander seeds. You can also add garlic. When the pot is full add boiling water and close the pot with the tops. Be aware that all the superficies needs to be clean, otherwise microbes can enter and ruin the whole process. When the pot is full, turn it upside down and leave for a day. Conserve and cool places or refrigerate.

 

Ultradependent Public School(UPS) at BAK: Tales of Symbologies Here and Then, Now and There (Hussein Shikha and Sadrie Alves)

The carpet is a multilayered entity with many dimensions and functions, tangible and intangible. It carries stories and gathers people. Borrowing Foucault's idea of a heterotopia, the Persian carpet is also a plan-like representation of a Persian garden. Its motifs of the frame, central medallion and grid represent various architectural elements found in Persian gardens, such as the surrounding wall, central fountain, kiosk, and doorways. The carpet is also subjective map of a locality, a temporary home, and a space for gathering. In this workshop we will not only look at but see through a collectively generated textile. 
During this training, we will look into the ancient crafts and symbols of tapestries as well as woodblocks of different geographies. These art forms are surrounded by immaterial cultural heritages—symbolic ornaments, visual languages—that have been undermined by the modernist lens of less-is-more. 
Together, we will translate our surroundings into a collective composition, analogous to a tapestry. Through the use of different media, analog and digital, we translate our locality into a tangible vocabulary. The workshop consists of collective readings, screenings, visual exercises, time for reflection in small groups and the larger group, the crafting of a collective work, and a shared meal. This encounter is a space of theoretic insight and hands-on practice. 
Hospitality 
Collective vegan lunch from 12:00–13:00 hrs. Meal included in the enrollment fee. The abundance and variety of the menu depends on the luck of the b.ASIC a.CTIVIST k.ITCHEN’s dumpster dive. Asia Komarova, Anna Clara, Sankrit Kulmanochawong.

110% Oosterwold

Bewoners initiatief 110% Oosterwold stelt zich voor!

Wij zijn een groep bewoners in Oosterwold die een centrale plek missen voor ontmoeting en gezamenlijk gebruik. Vroeger kende we in Nederland de Meent, in het engels the Commons genoemd, waarmee een stuk onverdeeld gemeenschappelijk bezit bedoelt werd. Vaak een lap grond waarvan het gebruik ten dienste stond van de gemeenschap. Met ons initiatief onderzoeken we hoe een Meent in Oosterwold eruit zou kunnen zien. Dit najaar komt er een oproep vanuit de gemeente naar bewoners initiatieven voor archeologische percelen. Op veld H zijn meerdere kavels aangewezen als archeologisch perceel en wij zijn als initiatief al enkele maanden bezig met het maken van een plan voor het toekomstige beheer en gebruik van de kavels K en J, tussen de Platoweg en de Zonnelaan.

Om alvast een start te maken met wat er op deze kavels zou kunnen gebeuren organiseren we op 8 oktober een gevarieerd programma aan activiteiten rondom 110% Oosterwold. We brengen in beeld wat er al gebeurt aan bijzondere activiteiten en verzamelen de behoeften en ideeën van bewoners om de gewenste gemeenschappelijkheid te creëren op deze plek in Oosterwold. Want Oosterwold is meer dan een los verband van zelfbouwers en grondbezitters. 

We krijgen hierbij hulp van het Design Lab Agroforestry, bestaand uit het ontwerp bureau Circular Landscape en The Outsiders, initiatiefnemers van het Travelling Farm Museum of Forgotten Skills. Zij ondersteunen ons om zo veel mogelijk uit de dag te halen dat onze plannen kan voeden. Ook begeleiden zij ons in het maken voor een lange termijn visie voor de beide percelen waarmee we ons als bewoners tot de Gemeente zullen richten.

Het programma van 110% Oosterwold op 8 oktober bestaat uit een verzameling van diverse workshops, waaraan bezoekers gratis deel kunnen nemen. Een ‘walkshop” door de doorwaadbare zones, wildplukken, een ecologische kook workshop, fermenteren, composteren, broodbakken, houtbewerken en nog veel meer. Bovendien kan iedereen aan de dag bijdragen door zelf iets mee te nemen. Dit kan bijvoorbeeld de eigen oogst van de stadslandbouw zijn, een muziekinstrument, een foto of tekening. Bovendiennodigen we bewoners ook uit alvast na te denken over wat ze willen doen of betekenen voor het initiatief. Denk aan diensten en kennis zoals cursussen, organisatiewerk, hulp bij klussen, tuinieren, voedselverwerking, fondsenwerving en programmering.

Naast het verzamelen en in kaart brengen van van ideeën en wensen, maken we er bovenal een gezellige buurtdag van met een gevarieerd programma, muziek en eten. Door een chef-kok worden gerechten bereid met de producten die we meenemen uit onze eigen tuin. We besluiten de dag dan ook met een gezamenlijke maaltijd bij het vuur en life muziek. 

text by Theo Tagelaers

Tidal Bodies & Oceanic Cocktails | Studium Generale 2021

Studium Generale Rietveld Academie 2021–2022:

How can we liquefy our ways of being? How can we think from and with the ocean?

In 2021-2022 Studium Generale Rietveld Academie takes a deep dive into the ocean. Through the reflective surface and from our own liquid bodies, we imagine the ocean as a sensorium that feels, perceives, registers and creates.

Most of what happens in the ocean, we cannot perceive with our own senses. Yet we are doing enormous damage to it. The ocean should therefore also be considered a ‘critical zone’ threatened by human activities and greedy extractive economies.

If we take the ocean as a discontinuous and asynchronous time-space, this critical zone also includes histories of exploitation, fear and death: from transatlantic slave trade to contemporary boat refugees and coastal and islanders displaced by sea-level rise.

What is an ocean in terms of ideology? What kind of power relations are at work and how can we create a new sensitivity and awareness of what is outside our own sensory or biased system?

From another perspective, the ocean can also be experienced as a transformative and immersive space: a space of affect and metamorphosis in which bodies and identities become fluid, and in which human and non-human entities meet.

How can we liquefy our ways of being? How can we think from and with the ocean?

Oceanic Imaginaries 

8 December

Tidal Bodies / As the Tide Recedes
talk by Miek Zwamborn, with an oceanic cocktail composed and served by artist/ecological cook Asia Komarova

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Tidal Bodies / Tidal Thinking
talk by Arjen Mulder, with an oceanic cocktail composed and served by artist/ecological cook Asia Komarova

Read more at studiumgenerale.rietveldacademie.nl