Elevating the Ordinary: Crafting a Creative Exploration of an Everyday Staple

Elevating the Ordinary: Crafting a Creative Exploration of an Everyday Staple

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.

2023-02-19

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.

General

Onsite (CCA)

Yes

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