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First idea (now changed):

I was struggling to find a tool. Everything felt like just another object designed for the human body (either overly elitist, highly technical, or overloaded with funcionalities. So I started wondering, what if we used the body itself as the tool, as the work? We tend to do everything with our hands and think of them as the most powerfull source for making. But then I started looking at my feet, the ones that have carried my entire body since I was 15 months old, when I first learned to walk with only two points of support. I had practiced athletics and dance when I was younger, but when I got to university, I stopped. My feet were simply there to support my body. Recently, I started running and walking again, but my feet began to hurt a lot. Interestingly, the pain started when I began using my body again, to explore, to walk, to run… to really use it. We tend to dehumanize our bodies, yet they are some of the most powerful tools we will ever have. The foot represents pain and beauty, freedom (with the hippie movement f.ex) and poverty. But it all started with a unit of measure, using the body itself as a way to determine our surroundings. I started analyzing my feet in a physical way, paying attention to measurements and details, but also in a sensory way, by placing them in different environments. My main objectives are to understand and explore the relationship between feet, objects and communities, and also how our bodies are transformed through their use. http://www.bhthom.org/hikertxt.htm#III_k

The Kitchen as Open-Source: Sharing, Community Recipe Book / Cookbook: 
A book of instructions explaining how to prepare and cook various kinds of food. A way to share knowledge, to transmit ways of doing — but also an intergenerational artifact.

• Nandu Jubany (different formats of explaining a recipe)
• Yotam Ottolenghi (emotional aspect, experience)
• Ferran Adrià (community, large groups)
• Sa cuina des poble de Menorca (variations of a recipe)

Language:


Language plays a key role in a recipe: it is the narrator guiding us into action. In The Craftsman, Richard Sennett discusses instructions and the challenges of following them, given the lack of feedback between the book and the cook, as well as the difficulty of coordinating words and gestures. The experience level of the cook deeply influences how a recipe is interpreted and executed. He introduces the theme “expressive instructions”. At the same time, Frank Wilson, in Gesture and the Nature of Language, writes about how bodily movement is the foundation of language, and how “the experiences of touch and pressure give language its directive power.” This raises the question: How should we approach a task, a recipe, an instruction?

Approach


I want to explore this theme through the recipe books of my great-grandmother and grandmother, which my family and I recently received. I intend to analyze the instructions, the typography, and the user experience — and also provide a translation for HfG students, so that this tool can be shared and expanded across different cultures and communities within the school (perhaps for a future kitchen?).

Additionally, I would like to study some of the basic kitchen tools used in these recipes, and perhaps design my own version of one tool, in order to prepare a dish for the Rundgang.