London Incorporated: the Body & the City

The Festival of Materials & Making - Kings College London

85% of the human body is replenished every month. Only about 10% of the material in a human body carries human DNA. We are not stable bounded beings but permeable, dynamic superorganisms, composed of diverse materials including other living things. We live in continuous exchange with our material environment. Through diverse process of metabolism and incorporation – including eating, drinking, breathing, infection, radiation and movement – the world we live in becomes part of us and we in turn shape it.

This evening’s talk series aims to explore the ways in which the materials of London are incorporated into the bodies of Londoners, be it through foodstuffs, commodities, organisms, water or air masses. Set within the stunning surroundings of The Gordon Museum (a world leading collection of over 10,000 pathological specimens demonstrating all aspects of disease in the human body), this promises to be an unmissable evening that will culminate in an array of London grown/sourced food and drink.

A special direct entrance (via the Life Sciences Museum) has been created for this event and will be sign posted from outside the Hodgkin Building and Henriette Raphael House, Guy’s Campus.

Booking is now closed as this event is full.