The Summer School Eating Walking Thinking (EWT) is organised by the Department of Sociology and Social Research of the University of Milano-Bicocca (Unimib), in collaboration with 11 renowned external partners. It is focused on the cultural “construction” of food as dynamic construct. The way we eat is the result of a complex and multifaceted cultural process, entangling different traditions, origins and cultures as well as new attitudes towards nutrition, heal and sustainability. This prismatic and mobile dimension of food needs to be considered from different angles, disciplines and places, in order to understand (starting from daily practices) the radical changes, which are nowadays affecting lifestyles and collective identities at the both local and global levels.
Communities develop their preferences towards specific kinds of food and cooking. Cultural inclinations are determined by a changing interaction between food supplies, traditions, social environment and global transformations. Rules concerning feeding are thus determined by taboos and practices related to convictions about the values for a “good life”. Therefore, food behaviours are influenced by socio-economic and cultural factors as well as by religious and ethical conceptions. Food is not only a physiological instrument but also a cultural need.
Philosophical, historical, anthropological, economic, social, geographical and cultural analyses and lectures in the morning will be followed in the afternoon by guided tours to the Expo site, museums, botanic gardens, farm productions, religious sites, exhibitions, art cities, centres of excellence towards a new culture of feeding/ healing, with a cultural-gastronomic tour in the region Piedmont in the week-end.
Rethinking food means to consider the multifaceted components, which determine it, walking and meeting different social actors, who are interested in the improvement of the quality of life and the development of human capabilities, feeding and healing the planet.
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Prof. Giovani M. Lunardi
Email: giovani.lunardi@ufsc.br
