Cultivating Sustainable Futures 2025/2026

Through a series of decentralized public events with paneldiscussion, exhibitions, participatory creative workshops, and culinary experiences, the project aims to raise awareness of the inequalities embedded in food production and distribution and the importance of promoting sustainable and traditional food practices for a juster and more sustainable food system. By bringing together diverse voices and practices, itseeksto reimagine food systems in ways that are moreequitable, resilient, and sustainable.

During August and December 2025, the Goethe-Institutin collaboration with local partners implemented seven events engaging through theoretical, practical,creativeand culinary formats the importance of promoting sustainable food systems and shedding light on current discussions, research outcomes and lived experiences.

These formats weresupported and moderatedthrougha viableand influentialcollaboration withInolofatsengLekaba, a knowledge worker with a colourful focus on epistemologies of the Global South, decolonial research and teaching methodologies, alliances between civil society and private property in creative placemaking.