Biohack like your grandma: fermentation & the future of food

Workshops on yogurt making & bread

A chance to learn about short time fermentation techniques like yogurt and sourdough for healthier bread and experiment with sourdough pancakes receipts. The program will include a presentation about fermentation and its role for the future, a fermentation walk, exchanges & presentations of your grandma’s products & cultures. Bring your own grandma, recipe, story, product, jars and feel free to show, tell and taste!

Workshops on pickles and tea-mushroom

An opportunity to learn how to transform veggies into dishes like Kimchi, Sauerkraut and pickles & name the jars at the end of the session. We will also ferment tea with Kombucha. The program will include short lectures and discussions about fermentation and its B12 potential, taste panels on the yogurts made in the first day and the creation of a "library" or public fridge “prototype” for fermentation exchanges in Athens. Bring your own grandma, veggies, jars, ideas and feel free to show, tell and taste!

Denisa Kera

Denisa Kera is a philosopher, designer and science "artisan" supporting open and citizen science projects around the world. She experiments with various creative strategies of public engagement in science, such as Ethereum blockchain platform, open science hardware, Tarot cards, consumer genomics and food. She is recognized for her ethnographic work on the hackerspaces and makerspaces in EU and Asia, which she discusses as a revival of tinkering culture of the 16.century mechanical arts and alchemy. She is part of GOSH (Gathering for Open Science Hardware) and Hackteria networks of artists, designers and scientists who support science in the Global South. She spent the last decade as an Assistant Professor at the National University of Singapore, Senior Lecturer in Prague college and Charles University in Prague, and most recently as a Visiting Assistant Professor in Arizona State University, where she continues to cooperate as an affiliate member with the Centre for the Study of the Future.

Matthias Fritsch

Matthias Fritsch is a visual artist and film maker from Berlin. He studied Media Art at the University of Arts and Design Karlsruhe (HfG) in Germany and Film, Fine Art and Curating at Bard College, Center for Curatorial Studies (CCS), New York State, USA. Has made several short and long movies, and media-based installations. He strongly believes in the freedom and accessibility of art, culture and ideas. Fritsch is most known for the Technoviking Meme and collaborative projects in the Internet where he examined digital communities and their importance in the formation of the contemporary cultural production. Correspondingly, his works are not only shown in an art context, but he also uses other platforms and distribution channels. In the last years he shifted his main interest from the recycling of media towards circles of real matter. Fritsch researches and develops systems for recycling, urban food & soil production.