Climate change, biodiversity loss and fragile global supply chains are raising urgent questions about the future of food production. In her master project Rehearsing Resilience, HDK-Valand student Kata Virag explores how design, urban cultivation and community practices could help cities become more resilient. Kata Virág’s master project explores how design can help cities become more resilient in the face of climate change and future food shortages. In the design project Rehearsing Resilience, developed within the Embedded Design master’s programme at HDK-Valand, she imagines what Gothenburg might look like if local food production became a natural part of everyday urban life. Reworked version of the booklet In case of crisis or war. The project takes inspiration from Matskog, a grassroots movement in Gothenburg that plants nut trees in public spaces to feed future generations. By using Matskog’s vision as speculative material, Virág explores how simple practices such as cultivation, seed saving and urban food production can help people prepare for ecological and societal change. – Sweden is currently self-sufficient in only a handful of food products, including carrots, cereals such as wheat, barley and oats, eggs, and sugar – which happen to be some of the ingredients in a carrot cake. But that is not enough to withstand disruptions to global supply chains. Even though we produce large quantities of these products, we still depend on imports of, for example, seeds, fertilisers and pesticides, says Kata Virág.