Palate Cleanser

For this project, students created their own conceptual food manifestos inspired by the Futurist Cooking Manifesto(1932), which blended performance, science, aesthetics, and emotion. Each manifesto reflected the student’s personal ideals, values, obsessions, and fantasies surrounding food, identity, and design, encouraging a perspective beyond nourishment. Students presented a performative declaration that included a title and statement of intent—either rebellious or supportive—ten poetic or political dining rules, and three imagined dining experiences, recipes, or rituals. Visuals, moodboards, and sound elements enhanced the presentations, which ranged in tone from surreal and humorous to tender, angry, or dystopian.

Students’ Projects

Abner Aamir