Elevating the Ordinary: Crafting a Creative Exploration of an Everyday Staple
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Title
Elevating the Ordinary: Crafting a Creative Exploration of an Everyday Staple
Description
Workshop
Sunday, 19 February 2023 10.00am – 12.00pm
Venue: NTU CCA Singapore, Block 37 Malan Road, #01-04, Singapore 109452
This workshop picks up where the group’s UCCN Kuching City of Gastronomy presentation left off, examining the team’s creative approaches to constructing a narrative around Sarawak’s heirloom rice as an important traditional crop, explaining why the Sarawak indigenous cultures cultivated this one grain, largely for its spiritual and social significance rather than food security, and how that has impacted Borneo’s biodiversity.
The group invites workshop participants to share ways of crafting perceived value for an often-overlooked item. The highly interactive session aims to generate suggestions and sensory narratives for positioning Sarawak rice in a modern global context using storytelling, documentationand other creative media. Participants collectively consider how issues of food security, food justice, sustainability andtraditional knowledge can be addressed in a commercial agricultural context, both to increase appreciation and to drive societal change.
Sunday, 19 February 2023 10.00am – 12.00pm
Venue: NTU CCA Singapore, Block 37 Malan Road, #01-04, Singapore 109452
This workshop picks up where the group’s UCCN Kuching City of Gastronomy presentation left off, examining the team’s creative approaches to constructing a narrative around Sarawak’s heirloom rice as an important traditional crop, explaining why the Sarawak indigenous cultures cultivated this one grain, largely for its spiritual and social significance rather than food security, and how that has impacted Borneo’s biodiversity.
The group invites workshop participants to share ways of crafting perceived value for an often-overlooked item. The highly interactive session aims to generate suggestions and sensory narratives for positioning Sarawak rice in a modern global context using storytelling, documentationand other creative media. Participants collectively consider how issues of food security, food justice, sustainability andtraditional knowledge can be addressed in a commercial agricultural context, both to increase appreciation and to drive societal change.
Date
2023-02-19
Coverage
Programme Item Type Metadata
Short Description
This workshop picks up where the group’s UCCN Kuching City of Gastronomy presentation left off, examining the team’s creative approaches to constructing a narrative around Sarawak’s heirloom rice as an important traditional crop.
Programme Type
Audience
General
Location
Onsite (CCA)
Collaboration
Yes
Commissioned Work
No
Education
Yes
Files
Collection
Citation
“Elevating the Ordinary: Crafting a Creative Exploration of an Everyday Staple,” NTU CCA Singapore Digital Archive, accessed February 8, 2025, https://ntuccasingapore.omeka.net/items/show/4507.
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