Swedish UNISG alumno Philip Linander is presenting his Undergraduate Degree thesis at the Stockholm Gastronomy Conference on November 25 2023

Swedish UNISG alumno Philip Linander is presenting his Undergraduate Degree thesis at the Stockholm Gastronomy Conference at Stockholm University on the 25th of November.

Philip graduated in April 24 2020 in Pollenzo supervised by prof. Nicola Perullo, discussing the thesis intitled: "Agriculture as tool to overcome the urban crisis of imagination: a creative journey to the margins of being".

This 3rd European conference on Gastronomy is unfolding in the program of the Stockholm European Capital of Gastronomy 2023 and will cover social, economic, psychological, medical, cultural and political dimension of food, meals and eating, as well as aspects of art and design linked to culinary experiences. The ambition is to lay a solid foundation for collaboration in areas of strategic importance, to be discussed in future international gastronomy conferences.

Philip's contribution is included as part of the track C1 on "Culinary Curating - Art as/and/inf Food and Vice versa" at the Stockholm Gastronomy conference.

He's stating at this regard: "It will be a brief but personal take on the general relevance of gastronomy as an academic field, followed by an explanation of my method and how my experience is relevant in this specific track. As my thesis deals with the creativity found at the source of food and food production, it can only be linked to Culinary Art in its broader and more ecological sense. The extended concept of food art is however at the heart of my project since the beginning. I, aware of the paradox, ventured in an artistic and first-person (emerging, speculative) scientific account on the felt experience of 4 months of traditional farming. I'm very glad about this opportunity for the Stockholm Conference utmost potential to generate an exciting conversation on how engage aesthetic understanding in curating culinary experiences as art".

"Today I consider my thesis as a corrective contribution state-of-the-art academia at large - an ameliorative, life-giving and warmth-producing science. What these insights can lead to is probably how (what is left of our) traditional agriculture, can be used more frequently in pedagogical toolkits in schools e.g. farm to school twinnings as proposed by the Schoolfood4change project".