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New European Bauhaus Solutions in Food, Living Heritage, and Conviviality

Project description

The contribution of food heritage to the European Green Deal

Food cultures constitute the spectrum of ‘living heritage’ reflecting societal changes and contributing to local well-being. The EU-funded CONVIVIUM project, an interdisciplinary coalition of public and private partners, will harness the power of food to deepen the European Green Deal’s cultural dimension. CONVIVIUM mobilises the principles of the New European Bauhaus to promote sustainability and societal change through creative and aesthetic solutions. The project will design prototypes which support farmers and cooperatives in balancing tradition with modern advancements, will create organisational models to encourage intercultural and generational connections through food, will develop digital tools to enhance the visibility of food heritage in museums and historical sites, and will coordinate cultural events prompting ecological awareness among producers and consumers.

Objective

CONVIVIUM is an interdisciplinary and intersectorial coalition of public and private European partners working together to bring a cultural dimension to the European Green Deal through the leveraging of the material, semiotic, and symbolic power of food. The consortium sees food cultures as a “living heritage” that reflects changes in society and contributes to local well-being with wide-reaching impacts. CONVIVIUM mobilizes numerous creative and transformative forces in the fields that inform the New European Bauhaus to ensure sustainability and positive societal transformation through the medium of food heritage. It offers attractive and sustainable cultural-based solutions which will bring about a range of cultural and economic applications available to different target groups. They include architecture-and-design-based prototypes that will support farmers and agricultural cooperatives to work in symbiosis with the environment, with tradition, and with state-of-the art advances; cultural events and interventions that bring food, the arts, and the humanities together to positively change the mindsets of food producers and consumers; new organizational models that champions inter-cultural, generational, and intersectional visions through the medium of food across local populations; and digital tools to reinforce the presence of food heritage in institutions such as museums and historical sites. CONVIVIUM will achieve this commitment supported by solid managerial, scientific, collaborative, and technical structures, which are in constant dialogue to ensure that the unlocking of food heritage translates into solutions grounded in the needs and opportunities of local communities, in state-of-the-art social science and humanities approaches and methods, and in synergies between traditional crafts and cutting-edge technological developments.

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Coordinator

UNIVERSIDADE DE COIMBRA
Net EU contribution
€ 461 775,20
Address
PACO DAS ESCOLAS
3004-531 Coimbra
Portugal

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Activity type
Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
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Total cost
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Participants (14)

Partners (5)