The Outsiders Studio
A cross-disciplinary initiative bringing together culinary experiences, sense meditation and flavour research dedicated to fostering a profound engagement with(in) nature.
With our unique School of Flavour programme and accompanying FlavourBank, we explore fundamental concepts of wild and cultivated tastes, plant flavour profiles, and cross-cultural concepts of culinary expressions while re-examining our relationship with food and the environment.
We aim to actively explore the foundations of taste and smell, and its meaning in our lives shedding light on the largely invisible set of relationships that we are able to savour when all our senses actively combine. By giving the gustatory and olfactory senses a space to be visible, by giving plants that feed and care for us agency and retrospection, we enter an active communication between the human and more-than-human. The project's mission is to not only assemble as well as share an extensive collection of gustatory expressions (linguistic, semantic, corporal, sonic, visual) but to -perceive, sense, and respond - to the diversity of their given contexts and meanings. Through multidisciplinary food events, workshops and active collaborations, it aims to reshape our conception of flavour as an act of communication and facilitates ideas of plant subjectivity and sentience beyond the human gaze.
We are here to taste life: growing a community which is open to re-negotiating and reshaping knowledge intrinsic to where intuition lives.