MARKÉTA DOLEJŠOVÁ
  • Squat & Grow


A series of workshops, performative enactments, talks and field trips supporting sustainable food cultures in Singapore and testing alternative smart city scenarios.


The Squat & Grow series invited locals to participate and co-design an open platform organized around DIY low-cost technology and so-called "smart" food practices. The series hosted several fermentation workshops run by the Fermentation GutHub collective, a DIY rice wine making session by Sewon FoodLab Yogyakarta, a kimchi tutorial by The Asian Raw Chef, a Fruit BioSynth workshop run by members of the Lifepatch citizen initiatve in art, science & technology Yogyakarta, a DIY lubricants workshop organised with trans sex-workers in the Singapore's Little India district, and much more. These experiments provided a shared space for peer-governed food science and learning outside of the officially recognised (and often less accessible) expert circles. The project was co-organised by Markéta Dolejšová, Cindy Lin Kaiying and Adeline Seah.