- Fermentation
- GutHub
A Singapore-based community of food artist, scientists, and tinkerers experimenting with DIY food-tech machines and practices.
The GutHub community was particularly alive in 2014-2018, as a space for food scientists, artists, tinkerers and other researchers experimenting with co-created speculative devices and approaches to engage with local food cultures. Among other things, we made the Internet of Microbes (IoM) a ‘smart’ network of citizens and vegetables connected over microbial cultures and peer-to-peer fermentation practices, created as a socially and environmentally sustainable alternative to IoT utopias and techno-solutionist nonsense.
The system was made of four main components:
The system was made of four main components:
- Fermentation Bank — a public bank for free deposits and withdrawals of fermentaiton starter cultures
- UnChope Makan — a crowdsourced map of places where locals offer their starters for sharing
- Mother 0.1. incubator — a simple DIY hackware to preserve and cultivate starters
- GutHub Github — a scrapbook of fermentation recipes, tutorials and experiences
The community was co-initiated in 2014 by Markéta Dolejšová and Denisa Kera.
Year:2014-2018
Events
Publications:2017 – The Fermentation GutHub Project & the Internet of Microbes
2016 – Fermentation GutHub: Designing for Food Sustainability in Singapore
2016 – Squat & Grow: Designing Smart Human-Food Interactions in Singapore