‘The World is a Mill’ brings together artists and communities collaborating in alternative forms of cultural exchange, including recipe and food sharing, to explore how migration, experiential knowledge and sensorial methodologies of plants, growing and eating, can contribute to climate action.
In November 2024, Dani Admiss and Luiza Prado held a ‘bean banquet’ at Fearon Hall in Loughborough, which was attended by academics, local artists, growers, horticulturalists and local people working with food and ecology. Dani and Luiza cooked a meal centred around the bean, with recipes from their own Brazilian and Iranian heritages, and conversations reflected on recipes that were meaningful for attendees.
Dani and Luiza are now inviting you to share a bean recipe that has a special meaning for you. The resulting community archive will be shared with others through ‘Bean Silo’, an interactive sculpture inspired by agricultural storage, exploring the power of ritual offering and how these practices connect to diverse forms of culinary and environmental knowledge.
If you would like to contribute a recipe, please provide the following:
- The recipe title
- A list of ingredients, in the measurements you use*
- How to make the dish, involving different senses*
- How many people the dish will serve
- Why the recipe is important to you, such as where the ingredients come from, what connections or memories are associated with it, how it makes you feel, are there any particular occasions, moments or events when you make it?
- Your name (unless you prefer to remain anonymous)
*Feel free to use terms that have been passed on to you, such as a pinch, the way it smells, its consistency etc, and relational measurements, such as one cup of each ingredient or two spoons of X to three spoons of Y.
Submit your recipe via the online form.
From the start of the summer term (w/c 13 April 2026), there will also be recipe cards available on campus for you to fill in and submit by hand. Cards and submissions boxes will be available at the main enquiries desk in Pilkington Library, the first-floor breakout space in Martin Hall and the Cope foyer in Edward Barnsley (ground floor) or from the LU Arts Office, MHL0.7 on the ground floor in Martin Hall.
The deadline for submissions is 30 April 2026.
For more information, visit the Radar website.