Intentional Eater

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this value system, emblematic of an era of mass production and mass consumption, has long supported our everyday meals.

Today, however, the environmental burden and climate impacts caused by excessive production and consumption can no longer be overlooked. Eating is not merely a matter of personal preference; it is an act that influences human society, the natural world, and future ecosystems. Each time we eat, we enter into a relationship with non-human beings, shaping and being shaped by those connections.

In recent years, signs of change have begun to emerge in our food values: the renewed attention to the Slow Food movement, the spread of veganism, and the introduction of the Michelin Green Star. Evaluation criteria that once ended at the dining table are now extending beyond it, toward the origins of ingredients and the processes through which food reaches us.

Intentional Eater: A Temperate Table explores these perspectives, inviting us to reconsider eating as a conscious, interconnected act.

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A podcast led by members of Bit and Bio, using the dining table as a starting point to explore news, values, and contradictions. By bringing together different perspectives as they are, we document dialogues that help us continue thinkingwithout trying to resolve everything too quickly.


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Intentional Eater #01

We organize exhibitions with the aim of offering opportunities to reflect on our own ways of eating.

In our first edition, themed Rethinking Meat, we toured Tokyo and Kyoto.


Why do we eat meator choose not to? If we do eat meat, what kind of meat do we eat?

For a long time, eating meat has been regarded as something that is Normal, Natural, and Necessary.

Melanie Joy, a leading figure in veganism studies, refers to this taken-for-granted assumption as carnism. She argues that although most people are unaware of it, we are in fact guided by invisible beliefs and social systems that lead us to choose meat. In other words, meat eating is sustained by an invisible ideology.

In this exhibition, we presented multiple perspectives surrounding meat consumption through a mini role-playing game. Inspired by Dr. Joys work, we chose not to frame the issue as a simple opposition between carnism and vegetarianism. Instead, we focused on visualizingat high resolutionthe gradients that exist between these positions.


Intentional Eater: A Moderate Table #01 Rethinking Meat Introduction

The newsletter shares what members of Tsuchi to Digital have been thinking about and paying attention to lately. If you would like to reflect and wrestle with these questions alongside us, we warmly invite you to subscribe.

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We are a biophilic studio that reconsiders seemingly opposing forcessuch as nature and technology, or the wild and urban lifeas complementary concepts, and works with companies and individuals to bring both the experience and the reality of this relationship into being.

While various nature-related crises are becoming increasingly urgent, it is predicted that around 68% of the worlds population will live in urban areas by 2050. If the way cities function will shape the future of our world, then the lives and work of the people within them must be grounded in respect for nature, connection to local communities, and a sense of ethics and moderation. Together with those who share these values, we explore diverse approaches to discovering new relationships with nature within the urban environment.

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