Low tech futures

We enjoyed a solar powered brunch as a taster for how we can design a more sustainable society.

As part of MODEL festival, slow lab and low tech magazine hosted a solar brunch in a beautiful garden in Poblenou. Food was cooked in low-tech prototype ovens which relied on good weather and bright sun. Thankfully, the weather delivered.

The low-tech approach questions the belief in technological progress, and looks to past knowledge and ways of living to design a more sustainable society. Cooking in tune with the weather is one way for us to be more conscious of the natural systems that we’re part of.

It’s inevitably a lot slower, and less consistent – almost the opposite of the on-demand approach that’s increasingly the norm. But in the trade off with convenience, we discover something else; a slower, more relaxed, pace of daily life. Highlighting the stuff we stand to gain, is something I think is essential in a transition to a more sustainable society.