On June 14, Professor Kakogawa participated as a panelist at the Osaka-Kansai Expo Theme Week.
The session was titled “What will you eat tomorrow? – To know the ‘food’ of the past is to change the ‘food’ of the future – Agenda 2025 Co-created Programme”.
Shape New World Initiative
【Hypothesis of the future vision in 2050】We value the food culture that has been nurtured, but we also see it as a culture that changes with the “now” and look forward to a future in which each of us can pass on the wisdom and ingenuity of “food” in our own way.In this program, we have prepared three sessions to discuss ways to look ahead to the future of “food” through knowledge of “food” in the past: first, ways to connect food culture to the future; second, efforts to connect the wisdom of “food” in the past to the future; and third, exploring ways to pass on “food” technology to the future. The third is to find ways to pass on the technology of “food” to the future.
Date: 06.14[Sat] 14:00～16:00
Place: Theme Weeks Studio
Programme details
This programme consists of three sessions.
1.Ways to pass on food culture to the future: In this session, we will consider the meaning and significance of connecting the food culture long nurtured in Japan to future generations and how to do so, using case studies of workshops to experience making Wagashi and Tofu, and research Modokiryori.
2. Initiatives to connect food wisdom from the past to the future: In this session, we will use interviews with people involved in efforts to preserve food culture in various parts of Japan, and a project focusing on Japanese chestnuts, a traditional Japanese food ingredient, to discuss what should be done now to connect food wisdom from the past to the future.
3. Searching for ways to pass on food technology to the future: In this session, we will propose robot-friendly Wagashi as a way to pass on food culture to the future. We will discuss new ways of thinking about how to pass on the handicrafts and techniques that support the food culture that has been passed down for generations to the future.
Through these three sessions, we will consider what we can do now to connect the “food” of the past with the “food” of the future.
Cast
Moderator:
Kaoru Kamatani : Professor, College of Gastronomy Management, Ritsumeikan University
Speakers:
Makoto Yamakawa : Saka-Yamakawa
Junya Mamiya : Senior Managing Director, Shunkado Ltd.
Tomoaki Miyazaki : Manager, Regional Power Creation Office, Shunkado Ltd.
Atsushi Kakogawa : Associate Professor, Department of Robotics, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Ritsumeikan University
