- StreetSauce
Speculative Data Cuisine & Edible Storytelling
The StreetSauce project emerged from the long-term HotKarot & OpenSauce experimentation with edible data and storytelling, extending this inquiry into more socially engaged context. StreetSauce explores the possibilities of edible storytelling as an occassion to nurture inclusive human-food interactions.
The project was initiated in 2014 as a collaboration with the NGO Homelike that provides social support to home-less women. We met with nine Homelike women who were interested in our collaboration idea and spent some time together, talking and listening to their stories: about their everyday lives, memories, as well as plans and wishes for the future. These stories, capturing moments and glimpses of a life on street, yielded the source data for OpenSauce recipes.
The nine women started cooking in our bistro, serving hot carrots with their personal storytelling sauces, inviting bistro visitors to listen and ’taste’ the possible flavours of a life without home. Visitors who wished to reciprocally share their own story at the bistro were invited to do so by creating their personal sauce right on the spot, using the online OpenSauce recipe maker.
Each StreetSauce bistro menu is varied and colorful: each person has a different story, each story has a different flavor. These stories come together around the StreetSauce bistro – an interface over which new conversations and relations can emerge.
Role:
StreetSauce was co-initiated by the Cancel356 collective and the NGO Homelike.
Year:
2014 - 2017
https://hotkarot.cz/streetsauce/
Exhibitions, Events, Publications
StreetSauce was co-initiated by the Cancel356 collective and the NGO Homelike.
Year:
2014 - 2017
https://hotkarot.cz/streetsauce/
Exhibitions, Events, Publications