We are all one system, but we have to learn to dream as a single system. In this microcosm of interdependencies in continuous vibration, no part can exist on its own but each part derives its meaning and its existence solely from the place it occupies as a whole. We live in networks nested within networks, a single system in which the equilibrium between the parts is worth more than the sum of the single elements. For this reason, it is specifically the systemic and circular thinking, that can help us to evolve our intuitions about the whole food system, sharpen our ability to understand the parts, see the interconnections and be creative and courageous about redesigning a food chain that has rendered us slaves to linear thinking. The biggest problems in the world derive from the difference between how nature works (system) and how people think (linear). As humankind, we tend to constantly break down the complexity that surrounds us into a set of independent sub-problems, a linear logic of thought. This problem-solving attitude loses the transdisciplinarity of a scientific and intellectual approach that aims to fully understand the complexity of the present world.

Through an imaginary menu composed in the classic Italian way of an appetiser, a first course, a second course and a dessert, this speech will accompany you to the table of the global emergency that the food system is facing as creator of the same problems of which it is victim. The desire is to share information and perspectives to live the circularity on a daily basis, because a sustainable economy can only be an economy of knowledge.