Plausible future foodstuffs include wine gum to get you sober quickly (“so that you can continue to drink even more”), pastries to simulate signs of illness (“to bunk classes in school” or “to get more attention”), petit fours that tell those nanobots in your bloodstream what to do (“they are like edible apps”) or memory enhancing jelly (“for better remembering the name of an acquaintance at a party” or “to shorten those learning sessions before an exam”).

The products will now be branded and eventually they will feature as finger food in a grand reception. Edible science fiction prototypes. This should be a nice dissemination of experiential scenarios. More soon.

Robin Rundkvist and Benjamin Ditzen took the idea of power saving activities to extremes. In “Walking Right” people not only worry about energy consuming appliances but there’s a “Department of Energy Consumption” that educates about saving energy by refraining from physical activity:

The film from Ann-Kristin Kühl and Ulrich Siegmeier is set in a future world of energy scarcity. However, whenever there are strong winds near the coast, people celebrate huge parties while wasting all the excess energy generated from wind power plants that couldn’t be otherwise captured. For a few stormy days each year, people experience extravagant energy abundance.

The debate was a satellite event of the annual Battle of Ideas. Support was given by the British Council and the Tilsiter Lichtspiele. The narrator is Steve Taylor from Voice Pool. And yes, we did use stock footage for this.