SCHPENSA

Schpensa is a project that aims to bridge historical, scientific, traditional, and culinary knowledge, while daring to formulate a prediction about the potato's role and agricultural potential in the future. Schpensa provides insights about the history of the potato, and the following long journey from its origins to Arosa it maps its production, transport routes, land-use history and policies, and describes its forms, taste, colors, as well as its continuous influence on the town of Arosa. Schpensa further explores how the food system provides us with the common ground necessary to consider identity and place, while addressing the importance of food security and biodiversity as one of the main ecological challenges of our time... Schpensa (i.e a pantry found in old Grisons houses where potatoes, flour, apples, etc. are stored) is a collective project exploring the history and potential future of the potato, as part of a long lineage of collaborations between humans and..