Eating things- IRL (in real life)

Come along and share your knowledge or to learn from others on edible, medical and harmful plants and fungus found outside of conventional food systems. Record your collaborative findings as drawings, notes or impressions.

EATING THINGS has grown out from a family project documenting the journey of two children as they start to learn and eat edible ‘things’ from ‘outside’. Starting in 2010 when the eldest child was a year old, the project became a method to ‘grow’ knowledge as the children grew. The project has extended out an intergenerational project to grow, deepen and develop knowledge and culture on food ecologies through shared learning IRL (in real life).

IRL - in real life As time passed, the family’s experience has amplified the mediation of learning by technology and the internet. Starting afresh, Eating Things calls for intergenerational learning to grow knowledge in IRL (in real life) utilising our current nature, which now in the first instance, seeks information online. The family of foragers take this lead to ‘search’, ‘gather’ and ‘process’ the results of edible, medical and harmful plants and fungus found outside of conventional food systems to develop our own situated data as memory.

This event is suitable for all ages; children 16 and under must be accompanied by an adult. Booking is essential.

This session is part of ArtHouses:22 Home Actions programme and is an ArtHouses and Eating Things partnership. For more information about ArtHouses go to www.arthouses.net and for more about Eating Things go to http://electronicartist.net/eatingthings/

Please contact arthouseswb@gmail.com for any questions about the event