Nutrition and sustainability
— Walk with biologist and permaculturist José Teixeira (and Inês Matos)
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Matosinhos Market and Fish Market
Free mandatory registration: esadidea@esad.pt
Terrestrial and marine ecosystems are crucial for protecting biodiversity, producing food and providing countless environmental services. However, the increase in the population's food needs has led to the over-exploitation of important natural resources and habitats, as well as the intensification of production or extraction techniques, with serious consequences for ecosystems and biodiversity.
On this walk, we'll talk in a relaxed atmosphere about our eating habits, the ways in which the different foods that we'll find along the way at Matosinhos Market are produced or extracted, and discuss their impacts and possible alternatives and more sustainable habits. At the end there will be a show cooking and tasting of sustainable food in the Esad idea Exploratory building.
We suggest bringing a small notebook, pen or pencil, camera, comfortable shoes, a hat, water and good disposition. Punctuality is appreciated.
Programme
10h00 — Presentation of participants
10h15 — Presentation ‘Sustainable Food’
10h45 — Start of the walk
11h00 — Matosinhos Market
11h30 — Matosinhos Fish Market
12h00 — Showcooking
12h30 — Tasting
Information and registration
Saturday 8th February, 10h00 - 13h00
Free registration mandatory: esadidea@esad.pt
Level of difficulty: accessible to all people with mobility
Audience: over 12 years old
Maximum capacity: 20 people
Meeting point: Esad idea Exploratory (Rua Brito Capelo, 243, Matosinhos)
Route: Matosinhos Market and Fish Market
About José Teixeira
José Teixeira has a PhD in biology and is the coordinator of CIIMAR's Environmental and Social Sustainability Office. He is the coordinator of various environmental education projects, such as the "Ponds with Life" campaign - which has been dedicated to raising awareness, monitoring, building and conserving small terrestrial water bodies and its biodiversity since 2011 - and the ‘Plastic Sea’ project - dedicated to the problem of plastic pollution - as well as co-coordinating the ‘MoRe Porto’ and ‘Ponderful’ projects - dedicated to the restoration and enhancement of small bodies of water. He has extensive experience using biodiversity and sustainability as teaching resources, having organised more than 10 teacher trainings and 150 educational activities with schools and families, including several lectures and practical workshops on sustainable food. He is the author of more than 20 scientific articles in international journals. He is a permaculturist and a member of the Espaço Compasso association.
About Inês Matos
Inês Matos, also from CIIMAR's Sustainability Office, is a biologist, illustrator and editor. She has participated and coordinated various community work projects, scientific and artistic projects and publications, such as the poetry book ‘flores secas’ (2024) by the publisher desmuro, and the book ‘Flor de tabaqueira’ (2023), by the artistic collective florestas de bolso.
Exploratório Walks
The Exploratório Walks programme is a proposal from esad-idea that will welcome guests from different areas who will propose connections between places, experiences and themes.
The walks will take place regularly throughout the year and can be critical - with discussion of themes while walking - and/or creative - with silence and deep listening, visual representation or selective recollection as creative processes or in which the walk itself is a performative act.
This project is funded by FCT - Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia, I.P., under the project UIDP/05237/2020.