The Outsiders Studio
A multi-species initiative bringing together culinary experiences, sense meditation and flavour research dedicated to fostering a profound engagement with(in) nature.
With the School of Taste & FlavourBank programme, ethnobotanic chef and flavour linguist Nina Green explores together with humans and more-than-humans alike, fundamental concepts of wild and cultivated tastes, flavour profiles, and cross-disciplinary concepts of culinary expressions while re-examining our relationship with food and the environment.
The aim is 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 reimagining our entangled relationships with, to and in life. The project's mission is to not only assemble as well as share an extensive collection of gustatory expressions (linguistic, semantic, corporal, sonic, visual, spiritual) 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 multi species 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.