- Parlour of
- Food
- Futures
- The Parlour of Food Futures is a speculative oracle that explores possible food futures through the 15th-century game of Tarot.
The food speculations are performed over a bespoke Food Tarot card deck presenting 22 speculative diet tribes such as Datavores, Genomic Fatalists and Turing Foodies. Although primarily future-oriented, each tribe refers to some existing or emerging food-tech trend: Datavores are self-trackers designing their diets according to quantified data accounts of their metabolic processes; Genomic Fatalists believe in DNA-based diet personalization and eat to ‘feed’ their genes; Turing Foodies like to cook their food in a smart kitchen, using the guidance of AI kitchenware and algorithms.
The Parlour project makes use of the Tarot technique that has been traditionally used as a card game as well as for divinatory purposes and future speculations. Drawing on the Tarot inspiration, the project aims to enable imaginative human-food interactions and support the notion of uncertain food futures open to diverse interpretations. In 2017, the Parlour evolved into the Tarot Lab project, a collaborative art-design experiment merging magic and divination techniques with experimental design and food fiction. The Lab asks questions about our food cultures and futures in the times of ongoing climate apocalypse.
Role:
The Parlour was developed as my PhD case study.
Year:2020-Ongoing
https://foodtarot.tech/
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The Parlour was developed as my PhD case study.
Year:2020-Ongoing
https://foodtarot.tech/
Exhibitions
Events
Publications (scroll down)