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Climate Snake: Guardians Yiannis Kranidiotis
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Agricultural land is shrinking. Debt and climate change have pushed many farmers into crisis. At the same time, food production is undergoing a technological revolution—hybrid crop varieties, Genetically Modified Organisms (GMO), lab grown food, faux meat. These developments are not just scientific—they reflect global power shifts and market demands. What stories lie behind the crops we see in our fields?
While there is satiety, there is also hunger; if there is plenty, there is also scarcity. From caste restrictions to calorie gaps, our meals reflect deep economic and social divides. Screens shape cravings, hunger drives invention, and food becomes a measure of privilege. Compare global diets, play through simulated scarcity, and rethink what it means to eat well—or to eat at all.
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Tremors Ground: Study of the Land Elia Nurvista
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Bite-sized Perusasion Museum of Art and Photography (MAP), The Marg Foundation
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Eat! Ritaban Ghosh
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Vulnerable Guardians AKSHATA Seed Bank, Arunkumar HG
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Fortify Barney Pau
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Manna: Epigenetics, Conflict and Intergenerational Trauma Anna Dumitriu, Alex May
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The Swamp that Feeds the City Pratyasha Nath, Jenia Mukherjee, Ilana Boltvinik, Mohit Kumar Majhi, Ninad K
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Forbidden Desire Jade Armstrong
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Kanaja: Interconnected Harvests Dayananda Nagaraju
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What I Eat: Around the world in 80 Diets Peter Menzel, Faith D'Aluisio
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What’s for Dinner? Shreeya Agarwal, Kamakshi Saxena, Maah Space
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Don't lick it all up Rajyashri Goody
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Museum of Edible Earth masharu
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Daggertooth Martina O'Brien
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Carbivore Priya Mani, Vinay Venkatraman
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Counting Calories
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
SCIENCE GALLERY
FUNDING PARTNERS GATES FOUNDATION BRITISH COUNCIL MACDERMID ALPHA ELECTRONICS SOLUTIONS
CONTENT PARTNERS ASHOKA TRUST FOR RESEARCH IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT ENVIRONMENT AND SOCIETY PORTAL MUSEUM OF ART AND PHOTOGRAPHY (MAP) RACHEL CARSON CENTER THE MARG FOUNDATION
DIGEST BUY Food is now just a click away. But this shift is not only from traditional markets to digital apps—it is also about new models like farm-to-table that shorten the journey between the field and the plate. Trace the routes that food takes to reach us—from the livelihoods sustained by local markets to the demanding shifts of gig workers in food delivery.
COOK From raw to cooked, food undergoes a spectacular transformation powered by energy, calories, and labour. Even as ready-to-eat meals fill our supermarket shelves, traditional recipes endure. Uncover the science, skills, and stories behind everyday cooking. What and how we cook may reveal more than just what is on our plate—it might reveal who we are.
Digestion is chemistry in motion: enzymes, bacteria, and acids transform food into fuel. Every bite you eat is broken down into energy—or stored as fat. Your gut is active, even noisy—those rumbles and gurgles are signs of a system at work. Follow the calorie as it travels through your body. Discover how sugar delivers energy with little nutrition, why carb-heavy meals disrupt your gut, and how microplastics sneak into the system.
WASTE What we throw away still has life. In a world where surplus and scarcity exist side by side, waste should not always be the end. From city sewage flowing through wetlands to leftovers reworked into food capsules, explore how waste might feed the future. Look closely: the system can still feed us.
TEAM ACADEMIC ADVISORS Gagandeep Kang, Microbiologist Jayeeta Sharma, Historian Nick Cullather, Historian CURATORIAL ADVISOR Marente van der Valk, Chef CURATORIAL TEAM Aaiushi Beniwal, Visual Practitioner Ashank Chandapillai, Social Scientist Danny Jeyaraj, Social Scientist David Verghese, Architect Devika P, Cultural Practitioner Gayatri Manu, Writer Harsha Jagadeesh, Biologist Jagath V, Biochemist Jahnavi Phalkey, Historian of Science Malavika Sudhir, Educator Shelwyn James S, Educator Vasudha Malani, Writer
DESIGN Anjal B, Designer Anuhya Mahesh, Designer Milena Stuck, Designer Shweta Jangir, Designer Shubhani Sharma, Researcher RESEARCH AND EDITORIAL Bindu B S, Translator Ishaan Ghosh, Climate Researcher Shambhawi Vikram, Social Scientist Sarasi Ganguly, Writer Vishwas Solagi, Translator
COMMUNICATION AND DOCUMENTATION Anupama K T, Video Editor Arjun S, Videographer Sandhya Ramesh, Science Journalist
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