{"id":12962,"date":"2021-03-07T14:28:09","date_gmt":"2021-03-07T13:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bakinglab.nl\/?p=12962"},"modified":"2025-05-13T19:41:25","modified_gmt":"2025-05-13T17:41:25","slug":"roef-festival-amsterdam-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bakinglab.nl\/en\/news\/roef-festival-amsterdam-2\/","title":{"rendered":"ROEF festival: Fire (Bread) & Civilization"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Where the smell of Baking Lab’s freshly baked bread is normally blown onto the street from a signboard, during the ROEF festival in September, these same smells were blown from the roof of Volkshotel<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

At first glance, the setting didn’t reveal much about what was happening on the roof; a few flower pots, large and small, pots of grain here and there and floured tables with rolling pins. Only with a primal instinct to smell and feel what the environment has to offer does it become clear what is taking place; the flower pots give off heat and it smells like fire. It\u2019s time to bake. Bakery caf\u00e9 Baking Lab was invited here to give a bread workshop for the ROEF festival<\/a>, a festival that gives new meaning to the unused roof surface of Amsterdam and has been doing so for the past five years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In addition to a bakery and caf\u00e9, Baking Lab is primarily an environment for informal education<\/a>, for both visitors and the people who work there. In a playful manner, the biological, chemical and physical processes of baking are explored and  made tangible for the public during workshops<\/a> and educational programs. However, the rooftop expedition that took place during the ROEF festival presented a challenge that developed into a story along which the participants were taken back in time. Because no oven was present on the roof of the Volkshotel, the lab was forced to take a new approach to the workshop; baking in homemade ovens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n