19 mai 2018
Esther Helena Arens, « Bananas: From Local Food to Global Research », Botanical Letters, ID : 10670/1.sl0xmf
In the second Garden Broadcast at Het Nieuwe Instituut in Rotterdam, the designer Johanna Seelemann talked about the Banana Passport for a single fruit, a joint project with Björn Steinar Blumenstein (more here). While the banana has become an everyday food item, the fruit undergoes a complicated global journey from the tree to the supermarket shelves, and the passport illustrates this process mostly hidden from our perception. Before, when I spoke about plants between Asia and Europe in the ...