Have you ever tried to imagine how a fish soup tastes whose recipe is based on publicly available local fishing data? Or what a pizza would be like if it was based on Helsinki’s population mix? Do you want to know how data could relate to cooking? Can you imagine to push the paradigms of data representation to the extreme by applying the principles of your local cuisine?
The Open Data Cooking Workshop is an experimental research on the representation of data with culinary means. The workshop researches ways to represent local data through the inherent qualities of food such as color, form, texture, smell, taste, nutrition, origin etc. It offers to its participants the opportunity to translate data in concrete, sensually experienceable matter, from the language of numbers into the language of food, and thus to gain unexpected insights into both media and learn about their inner constructions and relations.
The workshop is a collaborative research experience, blurring the boundaries between teachers and participants, data and food. At its end, an open data menu be created and publicly tasted. The workshop will be documented in the form of a cookbook that will be made available online.
The workshop is produced by Pixelache and organised by prozessagenten in collaboration with Moritz Stefaner, Marc Aulen and Miska Knapek. The workshop takes place in connection with OKfestival.
The workshop is kindly supported by Goethe Institute and organized in Aalto Media Factory.
More info on Pixelache’s Open Data Cooking Workshop – page
