Master Thesis Project
One Story at a Bite
Food carries more than taste—it holds family history, cultural fragments, political stances or forgotten memories. These stories may already exist within you, as the Proust effect suggests that smell can evoke lost memories. Alternatively, we might need to reawaken our senses to recreate certain experiences, and through this process, new stories come to life.
This project integrates perspectives from art, design, anthropology, and psychology, positioning everyday food as a medium for carrying and creating stories. Using methods such as sensory ethnography, commensality, and autoethnography, and through immersive prototype testing, the research explores the possibilities of sharing stories through commensality—experiences of eating together that engage multiple senses.
The final outcome is an instructional book distinguished by its open-ended approach to storytelling—rather than providing fixed content, it encourages genuine co-creation and improvisation between children and their parents by using food, senses and games.
We don't only tell,
We make stories together!