Designer Petra Lilja media artist Zeenath Hasan are speculating on the future of food production and proposing a wearable fermentation kit that is set up and kept alive with heat from the human body. By looking at the body metaphorically as soil, they will explore the notion of harvesting – from the body. The explorations are ongoing, starting off in May 2017, they made an open food workshop in the village of Gislöv, Skåne, together with artist Gunnel Pettersson, inviting the community in a discussion around cultivation, harvesting and production.
Petra & Zeenath have collaborated as lecturers in speculative design. Petra and Gunnel are working together in the group Smedjan. Both Gunnel and Zeenath were part of Petra Lilja Design Gallery’s program Design Research in the Gallery, verbally, materially and in action, 2016.