MARKÉTA DOLEJŠOVÁ
  • Fermentation
  • GutHub


The Fermentation Guthub is a Singapore-based colmmunity of amateur food scientists and artist experimenting with DIY food-tech machines, tools, 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:

  • 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



Role:
We co-initiated the community together with Denisa Kera.
Year:2014-2018

    Project Link:
    GutHub
    FB Group
    Events

    Publications:

    2017 – The Fermentation GutHub Project & the Internet of Microbes (a book chapter in: Enriching Urban Spaces with Ambient Computing, the Internet of Things, and Smart City Design,)

    2016 – Fermentation GutHub: Designing for Food Sustainability in Singapore (a paper in the proceedings of the 2nd International Conference in HCI and UX Indonesia)

    2016 – Squat & Grow: Designing Smart Human-Food Interactions in Singapore (a paper in the proceedings of the Smart Cities for Better Living with HCI and UX)