Scottish Gut Project
Welcome to Digesting Journeys—our online project space for Glasgow Science Festival’s Science on the Sofa strand as part of their 2025 programme!
While taste and smell are often the primary senses we might think of when it comes to eating, Digesting Journeys also brings sight, touch, and sound into focus. Here we are sharing some materials that can be engaged with at your own time and pace to explore your physical, psychological, and linguistic relationships with your gut
Digesting Journeys asks—what happens when we take the outside world in?
While taste and smell are often the primary senses we might think of when it comes to eating, Digesting Journeys also brings sight, touch, and sound into focus. Here we are sharing some materials that can be engaged with at your own time and pace to explore your physical, psychological, and linguistic relationships with your gut
Digesting Journeys asks—what happens when we take the outside world in?
Allow yourself to be taken on a sensory journey through Bee Farrell’s A Zine About TOUCH and How It Relates to Eating which will guide you through a series of prompts and hands-on experiences to explore the relationships between texture and foods.
We welcome you to watch Human Nature a short artist moving image work by Kirsty Hendry which ruminates on the shared tongue of eating and knowing, zooming in on the gut as site of interaction between human and more-than-human worlds.
If you’re still hungry for more, we’ve gathered together the following reading materials;
Sarah Elton
Eating for Two Trillion
Lisa Heldke
It’s Chomping All the Way Down...
Maya Hay
Symbiosis and the Steward..
Maya Hay
Against healthist fermentation...
Hi’ilei Julia Hobart + Stephanie Maroney
On Racial Constitutions...
Heather Paxton
Post-Pasteurian Cultures...
Kateřina Kolářová, Tereza Stöckelová + Lukáš Senft
Disability and the (dysbiotic) gut...
Eating for Two Trillion
Lisa Heldke
It’s Chomping All the Way Down...
Maya Hay
Symbiosis and the Steward..
Maya Hay
Against healthist fermentation...
Hi’ilei Julia Hobart + Stephanie Maroney
On Racial Constitutions...
Heather Paxton
Post-Pasteurian Cultures...
Kateřina Kolářová, Tereza Stöckelová + Lukáš Senft
Disability and the (dysbiotic) gut...
Megan Tracy
Missing Microbes...
Pujau Vangay et al
U.S Immigration Westernizes the...
Nitin K. Ahuja + Amisha Ahuja Gastroenvironmental distress...
Brillat-Savarin
The Physiology of Taste
James Kennaway + Jonathan Andrews
The Grand Organ of Sympathy...
Jean Macé
The History of a Mouthful of Bread
Manon Mathias
Gut, Brain + Environment...
Missing Microbes...
Pujau Vangay et al
U.S Immigration Westernizes the...
Nitin K. Ahuja + Amisha Ahuja Gastroenvironmental distress...
Brillat-Savarin
The Physiology of Taste
James Kennaway + Jonathan Andrews
The Grand Organ of Sympathy...
Jean Macé
The History of a Mouthful of Bread
Manon Mathias
Gut, Brain + Environment...
Manon Mathias
Autointoxication + historical precursors...
I Miller
The gut-brain axis...
Alison Moore + Manon Mathias Contextualising the microbiota...
Tobias Rees, Thomas Bosch + Angela E. Douglas
How the microbiome...
Elsa Richardson
Rumbles...
Elsa Richardson
Cranks, Clerks + Suffragettes...
Sydney Whiting
Memoirs of a stomach...
Autointoxication + historical precursors...
I Miller
The gut-brain axis...
Alison Moore + Manon Mathias Contextualising the microbiota...
Tobias Rees, Thomas Bosch + Angela E. Douglas
How the microbiome...
Elsa Richardson
Rumbles...
Elsa Richardson
Cranks, Clerks + Suffragettes...
Sydney Whiting
Memoirs of a stomach...
We hope you have enjoyed Digesting Journeys! We would be very grateful if you could spend 5 minutes sharing your thoughts with us here
Glasgow Science Festival ︎︎︎ Digesting Journeys
Event ︎︎︎ A Digest
Conference ︎︎︎ Modernity + The Gut
Writing ︎︎︎ Publications
Glasgow Science Festival︎︎︎Digesting Journeys
Event ︎︎︎ A Digest
Conference ︎︎︎ Modernity + The Gut
The Scottish Gut Project is supported by The Royal Society of Edinburgh
