Serial eater
Subtitle: food design stories
By: Benjamin Stoz
Contributors: Centre d'innovation et de design (Hornu, Belgium)
Publisher: Stichting Kunstboek; CID
Published: 2020
Place of publication: Oostkamp; Hornu
Language: eng
Number of pages: 271
ISBN-13: 9789058566508
Subjects: Food in art; Exhibitions
Other titles: Food design stories
Description: The book 'Serial Eater' dissects 30 years of experimentation and reflection on the 'object' food. Since its development in the 1990s until its actual status, food design analysis helps us to understand how consumption habits and our awareness of the food system have evolved. What type of consumers are we? How do we assess our impact on today's food production and what are we willing to accept on our plates in the future? In an often anxiety-provoking approach to the future of food, food design questions our behaviour, desires and doubts as eaters. It also proposes a more entertaining vision of our relationship to food (Italian Futurists, Eat Art, Marti Guixe...), whilst not forgetting its primary objective: nourishing our bodies, eyes and minds. From the origins of food design to current issues in terms of anthropology, jurisdiction and design.
Notes: Catalogue of an exhibition held at CID - Grand Hornu, Belgium, from 27 June through 29 November, 2020. (The book indicates that the exhibition was to run from 29 March through 26 July 2020, but as it happened it was delayed due to a world health crisis.)

Includes bibliographical references.

English and French.