In the framework of the international workshop “Food for Thought – Foodways and Partnerships for Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)”, held in the context of the UNESCO Food Atlas initiative, the Breads of the Creative Cities (BoCC) project was honored to be presented as an active contributor to the global conversation on food heritage.
The event was organized by the UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage Section in cooperation with the French Ministry of Culture and took place at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris on 22–23 July 2025.
The Food Atlas is a global initiative exploring how food practices help safeguard living heritage, empower local communities, and support the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. It aims to develop shared methods for identifying, documenting, and promoting foodways as vital aspects of intangible cultural heritage.
The two-day meeting brought together Member States and key partners working on food heritage around the world, including representatives from FAO, UNWTO, IGCAT, Slow Food, and the Culinary Arts Commission of Saudi Arabia.
Represented by Giuseppe Biagini, founder of the Creative Knowledge Foundation, Breads of the Creative Cities shared insights from its international mapping of bread-related knowledge, highlighting a formal, rigorous, and workflow-driven methodology that supports inclusive storytelling, strengthens networks of knowledge keepers, and ensures validation and moderation in the documentation process.
BoCC is proud to contribute to this collective effort and reaffirms its commitment to participatory and context-sensitive models for foodways documentation and transmission. The team warmly thanks the Culinary Arts Commission of Saudi Arabia and the Saudi Ministry of Culture for enabling its participation.
