We’re eating from the floating garden of the future!
0 - 99 years MS Stubnitz – Kultur, Raumschiff Kirchenpauerkai 29, 20457 Hamburg Platz BuchenA highlight of the KLIMASTRÖME Festival is the communal opening dinner with a view of the water: At a long table on the Zukunftsdeck of the MS Stubnitz, the culinary experiments from the “Floating Garden of the Future” workshop come together to form a climate-friendly menu.
For a week, young chefs and futurists have been sowing, harvesting, fermenting, and cooking. Now they invite you to take a seat—at a table that is itself a garden.
What grows here was planted by children together with the Ackerperlen, a permaculture and educational project that views communal gardening as a practice for the future, and has grown into an edible landscape. Amid fresh greenery and a tranquil body of water, flavors unfold that can be harvested right on the spot.
But the real miracle remains hidden at first: for two weeks, time itself has been cooking along. In the floating garden of the future, fermented treasures have matured, and they now become part of this shared meal.
Community carries us like a raft; plants and mushrooms tell stories of change, connection, and adaptation. And sometimes, a different future begins quite simply with a shared meal.
The evening will feature live cooking sessions led by young female chefs and futurists together with Salah Zatar, founder of the Zatar Community Kitchen. The menu will be hosted by onion, water mint, and Oyster Mushroom.
Salah Zater er/ihm
Performance artist and dancer and the founder of Zater's Community Kitchen .
His work blends performance, public intervention, and activism, tackling profound social and political issues while exploring the connection between people, their environment, and food.His performances and community projects are interactive and thought-provoking, inviting audiences to confront uncomfortable truths about power, privilege, and societal structures, and inspiring collective action toward a fairer world. Through his art and culinary initiatives, Salah amplifies marginalized voices and fosters a deeper understanding of social equity and communal well-being.
Ackerperlen e.V.
Mona Hegmann (she/her), a biologist by training, and Piet Möller (he/him), a trained chef, are self-taught permaculturists and the founders of Ackerperlen e.V. This nonprofit organization is a learning and community space for environmental education with its own garden in Hamburg-Spadenland—for children, teens, and adults.
Inspired by the permaculture principles of “earth care” and “people care,” they share a common conviction: Plants, animals, and fungi are not merely objects of our research—but teachers who were here long before us. Based on this perspective, they design educational programs that don’t just impart knowledge but foster connections: Through their workshops and mobile programs in schools and other institutions, they help participants experience ecological interdependencies firsthand, build self-efficacy, and demonstrate what sustainable actions can look like in everyday life.