International FoodPrint Exhibition at G18

We are what we eat… The project is initiated by the Faculty of Multimedia Communications of the University of Technology in Zlin (CZ) and the cooperating entities – Department of Furniture and Interior Design of TU Zvolen (SK), Taipei Tech (TW), Universidade do Algarve (PT). The name combines the meanings of FOOD, nourishment and with the word PRINT a reference to modern digital printing technologies, two-dimensional, even the most up-to-date 3D. With a slight change of pronunciation we can then hear in the English sound form the meaning of the FOOT, which a person PRINTS into the space he inhabits. Without defining the whole cycle for ourselves on a daily basis and naming its phases, we live it, we are its originators and users. It is good to remember that it includes production, with its surpluses and wastes (peelings, shells, flakes, etc.), distribution and packaging, consumption in some environment and with some means, marketing of each phase of the cycle, which is also applied in the last one, recycling, etc… How not to recall the mythical serpent Ouroboros, which eats its own tail and thus becomes a symbol of wholeness, unity in infinity and at the same time eternal return. And it is this aspect that encourages responsible behaviour at all levels of the cycle. Although humans have been the unconscious agents of this process from the beginning, they are now fundamentally responsible for it, for its form, its proportions, its consequences. It is therefore a good thing that we enter into it not only as an active participant, but also as a coordinator capable of reflection and with the ability to steer the processes towards the sustainability of the whole system. The FOODPRINT project wants to respond to this unending, cyclical, “interest-rate” nature of our human relationship to food. It is not only and not only nourishing, but also productive and reflexive. We want to explore all parts of the food chain (individually or comprehensively) in the creative perspective of tradition and more contemporary technologies (which – sometimes dramatically – change all areas of human action). We want to look for answers to the questions that the topic of food and its impact on our lives opens up, across the whole spectrum of design, or in all its possible branches. It is beyond the boundaries of individual specialisms that new, surprising and revolutionary solutions can be found. Website for the exhibition HERE. The FoodPrint exhibition will be open at the G18 Gallery from 4 – 14 May 2019. Its opening will take place unusually on Monday 6 May 2019 at 18:00 and everyone is cordially invited. We also invite you to the accompanying program of the exhibition: A guided tour with project supervisors will take place as part of the Gallery Tour on 4 May 2019 at 14:15. We also invite you to a Coffee with the Curator on 8 May 2019 from 11:00 to 12:00, where the gallery’s chief curator Romana Veselá will present G18’s vision and plans for the future. On May 14, 2019 at 18:00 Anna Minx will present Robot Races. As part of Zlin Design Week, the gallery’s opening hours will be extended: from 4 to 10 May 2019, every day from 10:00 to 18:00, including weekends and public holidays.   Author of the text for the exhibition FoodPrint: Miroslav Zelinský