FoodCultureLab

    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!

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    Tutors

    Former tutors: Luisa Blom, Judith Titz, Juri Schmidhauser, Leonie Hochstrasser, Susi Hinz, Alex Ghandour and Mariana Ledebur de Antas de Campos.

    Collaborators

    Haimo Ganz, Daniel Nikles

    Dreispitz Basel / Münchenstein

    Fachhochschule Nordwestschweiz FHNW Hochschule für Gestaltung und Kunst Basel FHNW

    Freilager-Platz 1

    4142 Münchenstein b. Basel