Cultured meat, art meat and meat art - what will be on our plates in the future, what do we all consider bodies, and what do we feed our imagination with? Those questions Daan Luining and Lotte Pet explore at Café Caat, during Days of Art&Science.
In 2025, there will be numerous festive events where everyone is welcome to join in celebrating the university's 450th anniversary. At Studium Generale, we are taking advantage of the anniversary this fall to highlight futuristic research from various fields of study. Research into what may seem like science fiction now, but is actually already science fact, and research into what we can learn from ancient dreams of the future, and the reality that those dreams eventually became. Come discover how scientists from different fields are working together on tomorrow's challenges!
Meatable
Daan Luining MSc, founder and CIO of Meatable
Leiden-based company Meatable, founded in 20…
In 2025, there will be numerous festive events where everyone is welcome to join in celebrating the university's 450th anniversary. At Studium Generale, we are taking advantage of the anniversary this fall to highlight futuristic research from various fields of study. Research into what may seem like science fiction now, but is actually already science fact, and research into what we can learn from ancient dreams of the future, and the reality that those dreams eventually became. Come discover how scientists from different fields are working together on tomorrow's challenges!
Meatable
Daan Luining MSc, founder and CIO of Meatable
Leiden-based company Meatable, founded in 2018 by Daan Luining and Krijn de Nood, is a pioneer in the field of cultured meat. Meatable aims to produce meat with the same taste and texture as conventional meat, but without animal suffering and the negative effects of traditional animal husbandry, such as high water and land use and CO2 and nitrogen emissions. During this lecture, Daan will talk about Meatable's mission and working process. That starts with taking a small sample of animal cells, from which muscle and fat tissue - the two main components of meat - are then grown in a laboratory. Some people have already been able to taste Meatable's cultured meat sausage, now the rest of the world! What will it take to get this sausage to the supermarket?
Meatable Art
Dr. Lotte Pet MA, BA, BFA, visual artist and bioart researcher
What kind of life do organoids lead? Do we care for pieces of human brain in a petri dish, and is an organ-on-chip an object of use, a test subject, or an employee? Such questions are raised by Lotte Pet's work. With her gore aesthetic, Lotte challenges the ordered and often medicalized relationship we have with the inside of our bodies. Inspired by contemporary biotechnological developments, her paintings explore the existential status of new life forms built from organs, tissues and cells. In this lecture, Lotte discusses how art can play a role in interpreting the invisible and unknowable dimension of our biological existence.
When
- Friday the 18th of july 2025 from 19:30 to 00:00