'Dream Lab 2012: The Future of Eating 2012'
“梦工坊”挑战赛之新食主意
Imagine a world where our relationship to food has changed. Where the scientific developments in food that we can already see - laboratory grown meat, genetically altered vegetables - are everywhere and commonplace. A world four decades into the future, where we look back at what food meant to us in 2012 and laugh. Because what we eat, where we eat it, how we eat and why we eat have all changed.
张开想像的翅膀穿越未来，人类与食物的关系已发生了变化。现代科学发展为我们带来“味比寻常”的食物——实验室里培养的肉、转基因蔬菜等,这些食物已经无处不在。40年以后，这些将只是“小菜一碟”，因为到那时，诸如我们吃什么、在哪里吃、怎么吃以及为什么吃等概念将被彻底颠覆。
The first Dream Lab challenge asked the competing teams from 25 leading Chinese universities to explore the science of Sleeping and Dreaming. For Dream Lab 2012, the UK team of expert judges has chosen a second theme that engages all of us and is at the forefront of current scientific research: The Future of Eating.
在首届“梦工坊”挑战赛上，来自中国25所优秀大学的参赛队伍以“睡眠与梦”为主题展开了“探梦”之旅。2012，英国专家评审团为“梦工坊”挑战赛带来了一个代表当代尖端科学研究的新课题——吃在未来的新食主意。
The project invites students to take up the challenge of imagining responses to one of the most important questions we face: in the year 2050, what will be our relationship to food? How will we respond to and perceive the simple act of eating? How can we face the challenges of a growing population? What might the provisions of biotechnology offer? What are the ethics and possibilities underpinning lab-grown food?
今年挑战赛邀请参赛学生发挥想象，应对人类即将面临的最大挑战之一：2050年，人类与食物的关系有何变化？人们将如何应对并看待我们习以为常的饮食活动？如何面对人口膨胀带来的食物问题？生物技术提供了哪些解决办法？实验室食品引发了哪些关于“道德和希望”的争议？
The Brief
任务简介
The Dream Lab team invite interdisciplinary teams to join the project and develop their response to the challenge: how can you creatively communicate and explore the science and technology that will determine future of eating? How can your idea be communicated to, and inspire, a wide public audience to take a greater interest in these issues?
“梦工坊”挑战赛诚邀跨学科团队参赛，就以下问题提出自己的观点和策略：如何用具有创造力的方法探索并传播决定未来饮食的科学技术？你的观点将如何有效地与更广泛的公众进行沟通并激发公众与你一起探索这些话题？
Research and Background:
研究问题与背景
A few questions to consider as starting points include:
从问题入手，启动思考：
What will we eat in the future, how and why?
我们以后吃什么？怎么吃？为什么这样？
What would the farm of the future look like?
未来的农场会是什么样的？
What would the restaurant of the future look like?
未来的餐厅会是什么样的？
What new opportunities will biotechnology create for eating in the future?
生物技术可能会为人类未来的饮食带来哪些新事物？
Can we learn from other animals or plants new ways of storing and using food?
人类可否向其他动物或植物“偷师”，学习储存和使用食物的“妙计”？
What is eating? Can machines eat?
饮食到底是什么？机器会饮食吗？
Is there anything we should never be allowed to eat?
人类真的百无禁忌什么都能吃吗？
These questions are meant to encourage the kind of thinking that should act as a framework for initial ideas, encouraging teams to think about and re-evaluate notions of food and eating at the most fundamental level. We ask the group to keep track of their responses to these and other questions they may think of during the course of their initial research, all of which may go into the first stage submission.
我们鼓励参赛团队通过此类问题着手思考，搭建研究框架，从最根本的角度出发重新思考食物和饮食的概念。参赛团队需要对整个研究过程以及在初期研究过程中所产生的问题进行记录，这些记录或可在初赛阶段进行提交。
