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Smog Tasting

This project aimed to increase awareness around air pollution and its dangers by taking the smoggy, polluted air of Bangalore, India, and whipping it into merengue to make desserts. This activation highlighted our complacency with passive consumption of smog.

https://www.fastcompany.com/2679329/smog-tasting-baking-with-air-pollution

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Creator(s): Genomic Gastronomy

Year: 2012

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Affordances

Form

Metaphor

Publics

/readings

  • An Audubon in Sound

  • Design Justice: Community-Led Practices to Build the Worlds We Need

  • Food as Metaphor

  • Metaphors Make Brains Touchy Feely

  • Metaphors We Live By

  • Publics and Counterpublics

  • Taste Metaphors Ground Emotion Concepts Through the Shared Attribute of Valence

  • The Design of Everyday Things

/activities

  • Context Exercise

  • Create a Narrative / User Journey for your Project

  • Guide to a Random Topic

  • Mapping Affordances

  • Metaphor Brainstorm

  • Observe-Analyze-Interperet-Evaluate Method for feedback

  • Project Analysis: Metaphor

  • Solo Reflection: Form

  • Stakeholder Exercise

Smog Tasting