Fiumicina - Experimenting with the Sun

Fiumicina is the project by Johanna Dehio, Mascha Fehse, Johanna Padge for FLUX – River Interventions and Explorations: a multi-year programme conceived by Lungomare in which observation of and interaction with Bolzano’s river landscapes take place from various perspectives.

Fiumicina is an open kitchen on the river, a project that foresees an infrastructure in the river city of Bolzano for cooking with solar energy. Conceived on the River Talvera, Fiumicina brings people together by and with the water in a shared space that connects different beings, generations, languages, cultures and economies. Through the practical and immediate context of cooking and food preparation, Fiumicina is designed to make, the transformative power of elements such as the sun and water perceptible, with a view to rethinking a more sustainable use of resources for climate-conscious nutrition.

During the public activities, Fiumicina offers a co-creative pathway in which to explore traditional cooking techniques using solar energy, questioning the origins and sourcing of resources, and bringing different food knowledge into dialogue, so as to foster an increasingly aware and sustainable reflection on the use and preparation of food.

Co-create and use the first public kitchen on the River Talvera with us
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::: At a glance :::

Fiumicina – Experimenting with the Sun

with Johanna Dehio and Mascha Fehse

When 18–20 / 25–26 June
From 10.30 am to 4.30 pm

Where Lungotalvera, after Ponte S. Antonio forward Castel Roncolo (close to the cycle path)

To sign up or if you are interested in becoming part of Fiumicina, please email us at info@lungomare.org or call us at 0471053636, or contact us on social media.

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Tuesday 18.06.2024

Collective Building (I)

Introduction to solar technology and cooking with sun, installing the solar cooker on the Talfera River; setting up, seating, and table arrangements.
The Fiumicina open-air kitchen is an extended riverside/urban infrastructure, specific to the selected site along the River Talvera, therefore resilient, adaptable and integrable. An experimental solar cooking station will be built together, where food brought in or collected along the bank can be heated and cooked. The sculptural installation offers participants an initial contact with solar energy.

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Wednesday, 19.06.2024

Collective Building (II) of a Solar Kitchen

Collective construction workshop of the solar kitchen, exploration of the sundial, and details on mechanisms and handling
 through the playful exploration of a sustainable and healthy way of cooking, an understanding and interpretation of the weather and the movement of the sun is promoted, hinting at an adaptation to natural circumstances and, figuratively speaking, a more humble and responsible use of resources. Can we imagine that social and ecological change might concretely begin in the kitchen, rethinking the relationship we have with nature, especially as a food source?

2 pm: The First Coffee

Coffee cooked with solar energy will be available for all participants
[no-sun programme (2–4.30 pm): coffee & cake crafty-discursive workshop at Lungomare, via Rafenstein 12]

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Thursday, 20.06.2024

The Solar Menu

Cooking day to prepare a full solar menu created with participants, including ingredient preparation, testing various cooking methods (steaming, boiling, baking, deep-frying); documentation of recipes and cooking methods provided as handouts/instructions.
What does a climate-conscious diet look like? What methods of preparation do we know that respect resources and where do we still need to experiment and come up with new solutions? Which culinary traditions – local and otherwise – deserve to be revalued and preserved? How can we collectively use the energy that needs to be used? The workshop starts with these questions to experiment with the creation of a solar menu and ends with a collective meal.

5 pm: Come over for a snack! 

Public tasting of solar-cooked snacks (in case of rain, this event will take place at Lungomare)
[no-sun programme: Herb expedition/foraging: explore and collect urban resources]

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Tuesday, 25.06.2024

The Laid Table – Cyanotype Workshop

2–4.30 pm
Crafty-discursive workshop for printing tablecloths with sunlight and teaching solar cooking on the laid table.
The river space in Bolzano is valuable because it is public. It is an intermediate space, of dialogue between urban, human and natural needs. Fiumicina carefully engages this space, to remind us of its qualities and what it already offers us, such as stones and tree stumps, vegetation and animals, while respecting to work while maintaining a permeability to view, water, roots and shoots, in a collaborative process with the surrounding environment. With this in mind, we will deploy experimental techniques of creation in dialogue with it.
[no-sun programme: printing crafty-discursive workshop at Lungomare; alternative printing technique for tablecloths used as a medium to capture conversations and recipes]

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Wednesday, 26.06.2024

The Solar Menu

Cooking day to prepare a full solar menu created with participants, including ingredient preparation, testing various cooking methods (steaming, boiling, baking, deep-frying); documentation of recipes and cooking methods provided as handouts/instructions.
What does a climate-conscious diet look like? What methods of preparation do we know that respect resources and where do we still need to experiment and find new solutions? Which culinary traditions, local and otherwise, deserve to be revalued and preserved? How can we collectively use the energy that needs to be used? The workshop starts with these questions to experiment with the creation of a solar menu and ends with a collective meal.

5 pm: Come over for a snack! 

Public event to know more about Fiumicina on the Talvera with tasting of solar-cooked snacks.
[no-sun programme: Herb expedition / foraging: explore and collect urban resources]

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::: All Fiumicina appointment at a glance :::

Fiumicina – Mirror Prelude
03.05.2024 | Talvera, Piazzale Langer
Public presentation in occasion of the launch of the second issue of FLUX-Zine

Fiumicina – Experimenting with the Sun
18-20. / 25-26.06.2024

Fiumicina – Festival – Three Days by the River
12 – 14.09.2024 | Talvera
Workshops, performances, talks, collective cooking