An exhibition about the use of local cyclical resources and local food production
The program item will be a beekeeping project based on local cyclical resource flows. By primarily using renewable, local raw material in the form of alder wood, sourced and processed in Skåne, the project is a collaboration between LILLA SNICKERIET MALMÖ, a platform for local production initiated by Olof Kolte, a teacher and researcher at Industridesignskolan, Lund University, LTH, and the beekeeper Pierre Wilhelmsson, who runs the company Apikultur. The idea is that three beehives will be in operation so that we can extract honey and sell it to visitors at SSDD under the working title "DESIGNERHONUNG." The exhibition will include a display of the construction of the hives and a sales stand.
The exhibition is a contribution to the discussion about how we produce our food. Today's food systems are largely based on monocultures, global linear resource flows, and toxic waste-producing linear packaging systems. The exhibition demonstrates how food production can be done locally, based on cyclical local resource flows, without generating toxic waste.
The exhibition can be seen as an "Echo" from humanity's early history, as beekeeping has existed since the Iron Age, and certainly, honey has been harvested from natural hives long before that.