Science Gallery Bengaluru opens new season on food and culture

Bengaluru: Science Gallery Bengaluru launches new exhibition season ‘CALORIE: The Breakdown Aims’, on science, culture, politics, and the meaning of food.

The year-long exhibition aims to explore humanity’s intimate, yet often complex, relationship with what we eat. Through immersive exhibits, hands-on workshops, thought-provoking talks, film screenings, and critical conversations, the exhibition season navigates the intersections of food, climate, culture, science, and technology, inviting audiences to engage and reflect.

The exhibition season brings together over 30 experimenters and more than 35 national and international facilitators (artists, scientists, and other collaborators).

The exhibition was inaugurated by Dr Ekroop Caur, Secretary of the Department of Electronics, IT, Biotechnology, and Science & Technology; Dr Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw, Executive Chairperson, Biocon Ltd, and Board Member, Science Gallery Bengaluru; Hari Menon, Director, South and Southeast Asia, Gates Foundation; and Dr Jahnavi Phalkey, Founding Director, Science Gallery Bengaluru.

The CALORIE exhibits explore these themes by looking at the science of food production, societal adaptations to it, the politics around how food reaches our plates, how we treat food, and artistic and interactive exhibits related to it.