The Living Archive serves as an inspiration hub for community food initiatives – broadly understood as gardening, cooking, and eating in urban contexts. It collects storytelling examples from novels, films, advertisements, exhibitions, and public projects that reflect on food heritage, especially its evolving, more-than-human dimensions.

It highlights the role of arts and culture in shaping how we think about food and heritage – not as fixed entities, but as dynamic processes. The archive is also a reflection of CONVIVIUM’s conceptual foundations, organizing materials through the lenses we use in our broader work.

Inspired by Jacques Derrida’s Archive Fever, we view the archive not as static, but as a performative, evolving process – “a concept in the process of being formed.” It invites us to explore relationships such as democratisation, participation, memory, and knowledge-making, pointing toward the future of food heritagisation.