Allevamento domestico
2015
Feeding the planet with insects is a hypothesis shared by scientists, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, ecologists, and part of contemporary gastronomy. Insects are a dense biological system: protein, minerals, and fats produced with minimal spatial, water, and energetic demand. They redefine the relationship between production and ecosystem.
Their lifecycle is short, scalable, and adaptable to urban conditions. Production no longer belongs exclusively to rural territory but becomes potentially distributed within domestic space.
Within this shift, the project proposes a device for domestic insect breeding—an object that operates as a micro-system rather than a container. It introduces a production cycle into the domestic environment, compressing the distance between cultivation and consumption.
The object does not represent agriculture; it hosts it. It becomes an infrastructure for a new proximity between human behaviour and biological processes, questioning the role of the consumer as a passive endpoint.
Allevamento domestico was exhibited at the Triennale Design Museum during Expo 2015 (Le Affinità Selettive, curated by Aldo Colonetti). Within the framework of Expo 2015, the project reframes three primary food operations—cultivating, cooking, eating—not as cultural rituals, but as interconnected system phases through which behaviour is formed and transformed.
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Photo Credits: Angelo Becci