A wooden wall shelf holding a stoneware crock, a brass balance scale, glass apothecary bottles, a leather-bound notebook propped against a pressed-leaf print, a mortar and pestle, an ink bottle and a rolled scroll, with dried leaves scattered along the shelf, on a warm cream ground.

People

Two convenors, teaching in two registers.

Reading a fridge as governed space is interpretive work. Establishing that it produces waste is quantitative. An argument built on one without the other is either unfalsifiable or uninterpreted, so the course is convened by two people, and either will redirect you rather than send you away — ask whoever seems closest.

An illustration of a wide gold stoneware crock with a teal interior, holding a row of pale ruled cards standing upright like filed records rather than food. A teal leaf and a gold seed rest beside it, with dried sprigs and two seed pods to the right, on a cream ground. Staff here are pictured by the objects their method depends on, not by a photograph.

Dr Simone Ravel

Convenor

Convenor of the course, and of its first, third and fourth modules. Her research is on the material culture of domestic storage — pantries, larders, and the household knowledge that mechanical cooling made unnecessary.

An illustration of a two-pan balance on a slender column. The left pan hangs high and empty, drawn as an outline; the right pan sits low under a heaped bowl of jars and vessels. Teal and brown grass stalks stand at either side on a cream ground. Staff here are pictured by the objects their method depends on, not by a photograph.

Dr Casper Nowak

Co-convenor

Co-convenor, teaching weeks 7–9. Their research is on household food-waste measurement and the psychology of stockpiling — the evidence behind the course's central claim.