Melon 3 - Meals for the Final 72 Hours: Living and Eating through Ongoing Collapse

In a time of extreme politics, escalating conflicts, climate crises, and systemic risks, many governments are encouraging their citizens to stockpile a 72-hour supply of food, water, batteries, and survival kits. But what happens after that period? 

‘Meals for the Final 72 Hours’ looks at wetlands, military rations, food sovereignty, and “eatable” weeds, exploring how people continue to live and eat through conditions of ongoing collapse. It presents how we might think beyond stockpiling and survival skills to transform this preparedness into a form of everyday resilience through ecological and political awareness, collective practices, and the cultivation of relationships with our environment. 

With contributions by Tiffany Lay, Yen-Ting Kuan, Alice Strete, Kari Robertson, Yoana Buzova, Giulia Bellinetti, Anna Kooi, Anastasia Eggers, Florian Cramer.