Forage, play, and plate tomorrow’s food.
A speculative food futures workshop where participants create fictional cooking stories by manipulating form, texture, and material to imagine what we might eat next.
Through hands-on foraging, prototyping, and playful speculation, the workshop invites participants to rethink waste, materiality, and the design of future foods.
Forage, play, and plate tomorrow’s food.
A speculative food futures workshop where participants create fictional cooking stories by manipulating form, texture, and material to imagine what we might eat next. Through hands-on foraging, prototyping, and playful speculation, the workshop invites participants to rethink waste, materiality, and the design of future foods.
Worst Case Scenario is an artistic contemplation on food meanings and functions based on David M. Kaplan’s 13 conceptions of what food can be (nature, nutrition, fuel, medicine, diet, pleasure, taboo, commodity, goods, meaning, spirituality, recipe, art). Together with Taurus Stalnionis, we began discussing forms and contexts wherein food isn’t meant to be eaten.
Some fuel to this topic led to the addition of two painters working alongside us in the art residency (Biswajit Dasgupta and Buddhadev Mukherjee). For designers, the idea of total freedom of expression exercised by painters seemed foreign but tempting. These conversations eventually led us to prepare a series of inedible dishes, mixing foraged ingredients (regardless of their edibility) with some “real” foods, as well as to heated discussions about food aesthetics.
The Inedible Experiments
Jackfruit seeds in soy sauce with local sandstone, minced unknown herbs, green beans and dried chili.
Pine tree bark with lichen, red onion, uncooked red lentils, unknown purple leafs, Maldon salt, oil and lime.
Unknown leaf rolls with pine needles, pan fried and raw flowers, peach and rosemary jam.
Uncooked rice mixed with spices, unknown greens and kaphal berries (Myrica esculenta); unripe beans cooked with plum and unknown greens; unknown acorns.
Insects with spices (a butterfly, a bumblebee, a bee, a beetle), red onion and garlic skins, egg white foam and flowers.
Whole mango and garlic head burned in their skins, semolina, black sesame, dried chili, unknown plants
Raw unripe pear like fruit in turmeric water with bird’s eye chilies and Sichuan peppers.
Unknown creeper plant with cooked plum and flower petals, pomegranate skin cooked with sesame seeds and rosemary.
Virus-infected deformed unknown leaves, pine nuts, kaphal berries (Myrica esculenta), and a raw egg yolk.
