Exhibition presented as part of the event "Tous à table!" at the Public Library of the Part-Dieu from November 28, 2019 to March 21, 2020
Some simple figures allow us to see the scale of the stakes: the Metropolis of Lyon approaching 1.4 million inhabitants eating three times a day, more than 4 million meals are served daily and more than 1.5 billion a year!
On a global scale, 30% of the world’s population was urban in 1950, this figure is now 55%. And in 2050, when the planet will have to feed between 9 and 10 billion people, 65 to 70% of them should live in cities. Let us add that if the population projections have a limited margin of error, we must unfortunately add to the table the consequences of global warming where the uncertainties are much greater, particularly in terms of population migration.
Feeding cities on this horizon is therefore a huge issue of urban organization. From the field to the base, from production to processing through transport and distribution, Every step of the way to feeding the urban population is now the subject of increasingly offensive policies in which many initiatives are emerging. What does it mean to eat in the city today? How have cities been built taking into account the food of men? What are the initiatives today? How is the city and the countryside articulated?
This exhibition, which is based on maps, archival images and contemporary photographs, is not intended to provide solutions to questions of such complexity and which are the subject of numerous works, but to set out a few milestones which enable these issues to be understood in their historical perspectives, at the metropolitan and global levels.
The exhibition also aims to showcase local initiatives: shared cuisine, gardens in town, composting, fresh island, biodiversity… and collect ideas and projects to imagine the city of tomorrow.
Exhibition produced by Bml and co-directed with Alimentation générale, platform of the cultures of taste.