During this year’s Art Basel, the Vitra Design Museum presents the exhibition Food Shaping Kyoto in collaboration with Basel-based architects Shadi Rahbaran & Manuel Herz and the KYOTO Design Lab. The show visualizes the results of research and workshops conducted since 2015 in Kyoto, one of the most vibrant centers of food culture worldwide. Its distinctive environment and history illustrate how food has shaped the city’s culture and design, its physical fabric and architecture. Food Shaping Kyoto sheds light on to the territorial dimensions of cities and the networks of material flow into which they are tied, questioning classical notions of a rural/urban divide: How does a city feed itself? How is food produced and distributed within? And how are cities shaped by these dynamics?

The exhibition includes video projections as well as installations specifically designed and built for the presentation in the unique space of the Buckminster Fuller Dome. During the opening the Japanese chef Kumiko Tanaka will prepare traditional dashimaki, a Japanese-style omelette.

WHERE: Buckminster Fuller Dome at the Vitra Campus. Charles-Eames-Strasse 2, 79576 Weil am Rhein, Germany.

WHEN: June 7th to June 17th 2019. Opening and Food performance June 9th at 4pm.

ADMISSION: Free