The FoodCultureLab, is a kitchen and a collaborative lab for food practices at the Institute Arts and Design Education at the Basel Academy of Art and Design FHNW. We welcome a manifold of formats and iterations that explore food as a medium, as material and as an interconnected living system.
We are the Food Culture Lab team from the Basel Academy of Art and Design FHNW. A community of teachers, students, supporters, friends, hosts & guests, and anyone who shares our table. We want to develop food and cultural experiences in relation to design and art practices. We welcome a manifold of formats and iterations that explore food as a medium, as material, and as an interconnected living system. We believe that food can be expressed, explored, and relates to:
images - cartographies - movies - books - sculptures - performances - photos - objects - eating encounters - cooking processes - gardens - cultivation activities - (food) ecological activism - tasting menus - food (cultures) rituals ... and you can keep on adding to this list. We offer a well-equipped kitchen and a community space for gatherings. It is you that can turn it into a lab. In this kitchen, everyday life cohabitates with events, projects, classes, and experiments around food. We work collectively, in a dynamic of trust, responsibility, and open communication. We wish to provide a safe and nurturing space for our HGK community and the ever-growing food practitioner's network.
Just as the Bastard Cookbook says: "Soup is a harmony where multiple ingredients get together supporting each other. They let go of their individual characters and collaborate with others to form new entities."
We aim to be like soup. Join the pot!
Bites&Bandages, Eating together in a Fractured Food System. CoCreate Autumn 2022. Collaboration FCL, CIVIC, FoodSharing Basel and FFFFFermentation collective. Photography by Erika Calderon.Fermentation as Metaphor, CoCreate Spring 2022. Teachers Gabriela Aquije and Rebeca Pérez Gerónimo. Collective photo record of the class.Being connected with the Flowers, CoCreate Spring 2021. Teachers Gabriela Galvan and Diego Martins. Collective photo record of the class.Food Color and Wellbeing design, CoCreate Autumn 2022. Teacher Ines Klemm, intervention to the FCL by students. Collective photo record of the class.Nourishing Methods, HGK OpenHouse 2023. Collective work between Gabriela Aquije and HyperWerk students. Photography by Alma RauNourishing Methods, HGK OpenHouse 2023. Collective work between Gabriela Aquije and HyperWerk students. Photography by Alma RauDapool First Episode, Korean gathering. FCL dinner, October 2022. Photography by Paulina OjedaSupper Waiting Club, Masterstudio Experimental Design. MA-thesis presentation at FCL by Jana Hoffmann, January 2023. Photography by Madita FloheSmashpit, a performance by Matilda Materni (IADE) about food waste. In the HGK Sustainability Week, March 2023. Photography by Gabriela AquijeBites&Bandages, Eating together in a Fractured Food System. CoCreate Autumn 2022. Collaboration FCL, CIVIC, FoodSharing Basel and FFFFFermentation collective. Photography by Erika Calderon.
