The TUM Architecture Museum is addressing one of the most pressing issues of our time: global food production. From April 23 to October 18, 2026, the exhibition illuminates the complex networks behind our food supply and shows how climate change, resource scarcity, and economic interests are pushing the existing system to its limits. In twelve chapters, production methods, global interconnections, and possible future perspectives are presented critically and vividly.
The secure and equitable supply of food to the world’s population depends on a system of global networks: farmers, fishers, breeders, traders, transport companies, markets, and industrial processing plants are all closely intertwined. They not only produce and distribute what is necessary for human nutrition, but are also motivated by the logic of capitalist growth to produce ever more goods, which, through overconsumption, leads to poor nutrition and massive food waste. However, this system is currently reaching its limits due to climate change, political, and …
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Image Above: A farm worker in the circular milking parlor, Dairy Campus Leeuwarden. Still from the film “The True Type” by Nicole Humiński and Víctor Muñoz Sanz. Camera: Nikolai Huber. Production: Andjelka Badnjar, Andres Lepik, Architecture Museum of the TUM, 2026.
