22 May 2026
The relationship between food and memory is shaped by displacement and diaspora. Palestinian food culture has been formed through ongoing movement and loss. From refugee camps to cities across the world, it carries an irreplaceable sense of place: specific land, light, and seasons remembered and reimagined.
Yet that land has been profoundly damaged. Harvests are blocked, water is restricted and trees uprooted. And still, people plant again. They cook from what remains, sustaining something no occupation has been able to extinguish.
It is within that context that the conference of Home & the Palestinian Table takes place, coinciding with the opening of the installation The Palestinian Table. Convened in partnership with community members across the world, the conference examines how built environments, landscapes, and geographies are weaponized, and how artistic and investigative practices name what has been done.
The installation and the conference share a methodology: tracing harm through its material evidence and insisting that what has been destroyed is witnessed.
Imagine Peace is the program label of Wereldmuseum in which peace is explored as an active, just, and collective practice. With Imagine Peace Wereldmuseum aims to illustrate that peace begins with justice, and that imagination is a necessary step towards change.
Through community, art, and cultural heritage, Imagine Peace brings people together around current and urgent geopolitical issues such as war, apartheid, inequality, loss, and recovery.
