Verkstatt
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Plant Based Design
Design for Local Production
Social Design
Design for Open Source
Activism
Experience
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›Imagine you are invited to your friends' house, the atmosphere is cheerful and the food tastes so good that you ask the host for the recipe.
Kindly, he tells you that the secret is in the meat: it is the meat of a Golden Retriever.‹
How would you react?
Albert Schweitzer Foundation


Eating meat is an inherent, almost unchallenged part of our western society. The ever-increasing industrialization of agriculture not only leads to an unimaginable loss of biodiversity, but also continues to change our relationship to animals, or productive livestock as the industry prefers to say.
Driven by money, ads and societal norms telling us what is ›accepted‹, we risk the health of ourselves and our planet through the outrageous overconsumption of animal products – at the cost of millions of animate beings that, yet, seem to be invisible throughout our daily lives:
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Over 21.000.000 (!) pigs and 159.000.000 (!!) chicken living in Germany alone.
How many of them have you seen today? How many in your entire life?
Interested in reading more?
Check out the research report here.
(sorry, currently only available in German language)


Supposedly new plant-based meat alternatives however, are perceived as ›abnormal‹ and seem to originate from foreign chemistry labs. But what if that's not the case?
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What if they are simply the latest iteration of almost 2000 years of multicultural innovation?
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Verkstatt aims to provide a tangible answer to these questions, by building bridges between the centuries-old animal flesh alternatives tofu and seitan and today’s discussion on mass consumption of meat.
The soy- and wheat-based foods become tangible along with their artisanal manufacturing processes through the workshop formats ›from bean to protein‹ and ›from wheat to ‘meat’‹.
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Apart from an educative setting, the easy-to-transport and reproduce elements might also be used for small scale manufacturing, ran by local entrepreneurs or even citizens’ initiatives.





