the pavilion of tomorrow
For the celebration of the Credo Bonum Foundation, based in Sofia/Bulgaria, prazlab developed edible representations of the gallery’s projects. The edible installations communicated one aspect of the gallery’s interventions, conferences, and community work and could be experienced by visitors through all their senses. The project was realized with the help of MIAM.
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Refugee Tarator
Tarator is a cold summer soup, traditional for the Bulgarian cuisine. Variation of the same appetizer are found in many countries and cuisines, located in the Middle East. Three variations of tarator are prepared from the classical recipe. In each soup are included herbs and spices from the countries where the largest groups of people who sought refuge in Bulgaria are coming from.
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Blended Love
Poets are godly-blessed individuals who can magically describe the infinities of the human spirit through words and language. They are the best connoisseur of human emotions able to portrait love and beauty with plants and herbs. Throughout history, mainly male poets used words to declare their love, however, young women resort on love potions to magically remedy their unrequited love. Blends of aphrodisiac herbs were therefore prepared to seduce the sweetheart. Based on famous poems eight tea blends were created to serve love in a cup of tea.
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Linzer Torten Diagramm II
The Linzer Torte is considered the oldest known cake in the world, it was already mentioned in the year 1653. Who named or invented the cake remains a mystery, still the city touristic guides of the capital of Upper Austria – Linz, embraced it as one of the most important city’s sights. In 2011 the local government released statistical data about the city and opened it in public domain. According to the mayor of Linz in Austria, the city is becoming every year a better place to live. Nevertheless, the world economic crisis, in the capital of Upper Austria the development of the city is booming with having move green areas, modern flat buildings and reaching records in newborn babies. The project aims to find out if this is true from the female residents perspective. Is Linz is a good place to be if you are a woman, according to the statistics? Taking this approach nine traditional Linzer Torten recipes were recalculated out of the data from the nine years between 2003 and 2011. The base ingredients were mapped to data about how many people came to live in Linz, what was the unemployment rate for the last years, how […]
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Water Footprint
Coffee is known to be the world’s second most valuable traded commodity, behind only petroleum. Among coffee, other common drink stuff like milk, wine, tea, beer and soy milk, have a huge impact on our environment, especially by demanding the use of fresh water.
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Christstollen
One of Austrians internationally known Christmas pastries is the Christstollen; a sweet yeast dough filled with raisins, almonds and candied lemon and orange peel with a butter and sugar layer around it. This traditional bakery dates back to Catholic Church practices from the Middle Age when it was a fasting pastry symbolizing Christ Child.
In a survey, people were asked about their spendings habits in the Christmas shopping time frame. The Christstollen project represents six personal Christmas stories baked into stollen.
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Is ma’ Wurscht
Sausages are made from ground meat with an intestine around it. Traditionally, sausage makers would salt various tissues such as scraps, organ meats, blood, and fat for preservation. Yet, with the mass produced factory-made sausage, nobody really knows what producers choose as ingredients.
Based on the Corruption Perception Index and meat production scandals from four countries, traditional types of sausages were recalculated. Preparing the transformed recipe, the cook decides the containing ingredients and how much corruption can be tolerated.
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Linzer Torten Diagramm
The Linzer Torte is considered to be the oldest cake in the world. Who named or invented the cake remains a mystery, still the city touristic guides of the capital of Upper Austria, Linz, embraced it as one of the most important city’s sights. According to the mayor, the city is becoming every year a better place to live.
The project analyzes the female residents perspective. Nine Linzer Torten were baked based on statistical data from the years 2003 to 2011. Each dataset transformed the cake recipe according to yearly-based values like female unemployment rate, numbers of inhabitants and newly constructed residential buildings.
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