With the exhibition Convivium: Food Systems at the Limit, the Architecture Museum at the Technical University of Munich takes a look behind the scenes of our supply chains – at architecture and regional landscapes that are undergoing radical change under the pressure of global production and consumption structures.
De Ruiter Experience Center, Bleiswijk, Netherlands. Johannes Schwartz, 2025
In secret
A carpet of greenhouses, artificially created ponds for irrigation: the spaces and structures of the food industry usually remain hidden from view. Like food production itself, they are, for the most part, highly industrialised. Food production has a significant impact on regional landscapes and their architecture, and under the constant pressure of ever-increasing consumption, it is changing rapidly, and with it the places where production takes place. For food supply has long been integrated into global networks: not only production and trade, but also transport is part of this closely interwoven system.
From the video „How Does Food Enter the City?“, TUM-Masterproject „About Food and Spaces. Exhibit Design“ together with Nicole Humiński and Nikolai Huber. Thiade Langenhan, 2025
Production sites
The current exhibition in Munich focuses on the places where food is produced – fishing ports and livestock barns, farmland and transcontinental supply chains. It also shows that the economy of ever-increasing consumption has long since reached its limits: many seas are overfished, fertile farmland has been built over, and entire regions have been devastated by a lack of rain.
Tascosa Feed Yard in Bushland, Texas, Google Earth, Airbus, Maxar Technologies, 2025
Challenges
To complement the exhibition, this publication from ArchiTangle brings together essays, photographic documentation and research articles that focus on ecological, political and social challenges. The exhibition runs until 18 October and was curated by Andjelka Badnjar and Andres Lepik; the catalogue was designed by strobo bm.
Convivium
Andjelka Badnjar, Andres Lepik (edd.)
272 pages, Hardcover
ArchiTangle, Berlin 2026
ISBN 9783966800440
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