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Food Untold

Intimate and sparkling memories behind our food: how does our culinary past permeate the way we are?

With a street stand on Stationsplein, the collective 'To Be Cooked' invites non-EU artists in Eindhoven to prepare personal recipes from their hometown, serve the dish to the public and tell their stories behind the food associated with the gastronomic culture of different regions.

What does food mean to us

How does our culinary past reflect our values, culture, and permeate the way we are? When does food act as a conduit for lasting changes and cultural awareness? What is the role of food in producing identities and notions of alterity within a shared space?

What we will bring for DDW24

By telling stories that epitomise the regional culinary culture, the project aims to invite non-EU artists in Eindhoven to prepare personal recipes from their hometown and serve the dish to the public. During the DDW 2024, we will be positioned on the Stationsplein in the form of a street food stall. Along with the food served, invited artists will present their stories through a various forms of narratives. We encourage individual artists to share their intimate and sparkling memories of food hidden beneath the stereotypical culinary grand narrative. By zooming in on individual stories and zooming out on ubiquitous regional identity, we are able to glimpse how cultural significance is embedded in design through the lens of food, and understand how what we put on our plates functions as a tool of narrative.

What we hope to sparkle

The food stall itself provides an affable venue to encourage further communication with our audience: stories for stories. By empowering the immigrants and allowing them to tell their culinary stories, food is enabled to transcend cultural boundaries, revealing a corner of the 'self-representation' of the non-EU community.

About To Be Cooked

Founded in 2023, To Be Cooked is a culinary collective based in Eindhoven formed by interdisciplinary designers who are enthusiastic about food. By revealing what foods epitomise: from individual to ethnic; from culture to land; from phenomenon to transformation, we aim to investigate further on diverse topics using food as our narrative: the most primitive and fundamental connection between human society and nature.
Station area, Stationsplein (city centre entree), to the left of DDW ticket-office
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Fully Wheelchair Accessible
Dogs allowed
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