Paolo Bosca

Food Utopias is a performative and theoretical research which investigates the power exercised by map on space, specifically in gastronomy.

We use maps every day. The most common maps see the world “from the eye of God” (Italo Calvino). They’re a device through which we represent the space in which we are immersed. Among the effects of this way of representing is that most of the qualities of the territory are lost. Flavors, shapes, smells: much of our aesthetic (sensible) experience does not pass through the filter of modern cartography. This creates a power: limiting the experience constrains our actions. Food Utopias investigates the effects of this power in gastronomy and tries to create a new map to navigate ourselves in accordance with a broader sensible experience of the space.