In Berlin, a multicultural city, food from all over the world is part of our everyday lives. But where does our food come from? What influence do large corporations or the supermarket next door have on our diets? Do we really need fresh strawberries in winter, and what does our biofuel have to do with hunger or environmental destruction on other continents? In a five-day seminar, 40 students from the Hector-Peterson School and the Carl-von-Ossietzky School explored these and other questions, presenting their findings at the end of the seminar in the Theatersaal of the wannseeFORUM. The audio group's radio play, "Globalization for All?", dealt with the effects of mass production, recounting a fictional journey to one of the world's largest greenhouses. The rap group wrote and performed song lyrics on the topics of politics, globalization, and food. The theater group's play, "Pure Water Rights," addressed the questions of who owns water and whether it should be sold to corporations. The weblog group presented their discussion of the problems and conflicts surrounding land in palm oil production on their specially created weblog "Eating with a Conscience".
The project was created in cooperation between the wannseeFORUM Foundation and the Victor Gollancz Adult Education Center Steglitz-Zehlendorf
and was supported by:
