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Another Provision

Another Provision is the collaborative practice of researcher Dr. Hanna Baumann and artist Johann Arens. They apply strategies of public art to highlight the need for societal change, imagine concrete alternative models at the urban level and de-stigmatise public services.

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The collaboration is driven by the necessity to advocate for food justice, including social and sustainable production chains through the means of research, art and culture. Another Provision is invested in discussing and promoting alternate structural solutions across urban divisions of class and ethnicity.

Throughout a 3-year process Another Provision organised a series of workshop events touring different community spaces around the UK involving people who have received food aid as well as food activists. The programme was co-produced with the National Food Service - London (NFSL), a mutual aid group trialing new models for more just food futures. Modelling their creative research on NFSL’s careful engagement to build communal structures based on a ‘solidarity not charity’ model of mutual care, Another Provision devised a care-based process of infrastructural co- design and creative visioning for more just urban food futures. In 2024 the project was implemented in the new context of the nGbK in Berlin in their new location on Alexanderplatz, the former spaces of a MacDonalds restaurant. This event programme and exhibition called ‘Municipal Kitchens ’ ran for 7 weeks, accompanied with community meals and workshops connecting local food justice organisations, artists, activists and neighbours.