Sarah Marchiset, Mélanie Vivier Once a week at SIFO, a common lunch is organised during which a researcher presents a paper while his/her colleagues are eating. An overview of the “food rhythm” in Norway: Living in Oslo for a month, Sarah and Mélanie tried to adapt to – and first, to understand – the way […]
Between Oslo… … And Bordeaux A modest example of how the Covid impacts our lives. Bad luck! Sarah is stuck in her bed few days before flying to Oslo. The nasty SARS-CoV-2 invited itself at her home. After spending time with her new friend “fever”, while Melanie visited some parts of the town and met […]
Mélanie Vivier & Sarah Marchiset Welcome to you, readers. By reading this text, you will follow some slices of the daily life of two FOOD2GATHER members – Mélanie & Sarah – who are both Ph.D. candidates, respectively in the Belgian and the French team. Together with the amount of work they have to do, they […]
Chantal Crenn The investigation carried out for Food2gather research during summertime 2021 with the photographer Simoné Cinélli and the anthropologist Chantal Crenn in the small city of Sainte Foy La Grande in Bordeaux vineyard shows “the capacity to act” for young migrants and minorities through the shared gardens built behind the cinema in the city […]
Sarah Marchiset Monday, 18th May 2020. The first French lockdown has been over for a week. Nevertheless, in the Garage Moderne* volunteers carry on cooking, three days a week, guiding by the expertise of Barnabé, chef of the restaurant of this associative place. Together, they transform food products from the Food Bank in meal box […]
Gholam Najafi, writer, Italian Team Questo è il disegno del dormitorio in Turchia a Van, dove ho passato alcune settimane prima di imbarcarmi per la Grecia. Era un dormitorio sotterraneo simile a una pentola con il coperchio. Lì bollivano la rabbia, la disperazione, la paura di decine di clandestini. Luigi ha disegnato in un piano […]
(English version below) Samer sitzt bequem am Terrassentisch seines Lokals im lebhaften Berliner Distrikt Friedrichshain. Es ist ein sonniger Mittag, ein perfekter Moment, um eine Arbeitspause einzulegen. Er hat uns hier willkommen geheißen und uns auf einem Pfefferminztee eingeladen. Während wir ihn gemeinsam trinken erinnert er sich an die Anfänge seiner Zeit in Deutschland, wo […]
Alice Brombin, anthropologist, Italian Team Peace ‘n’ Spice, restaurant located in the centre of the University historical district in the city of Padua, is not just an “ethnic” venue. Peace ‘n’ Spice is a project of a gourmet cuisine, designed as an exploratory taste trip alongside routes travelled by a group of refugees and asylum […]
For several months now, the Food2Gather research team in Belgium shares the daily life of families in situation of asylum application in a Red Cross reception center (partner of the project). Today, the team proposes you to immerse yourself for one minute in the atmosphere of the canteen of the reception center. How is the […]
The boat left full of people, food and water. A boat without radar when the sun came up, the sailors had abandoned the boat, reducing it to pieces in order not to use it again or at least not to have to return with the same boat once they reached the unknown island. The remains […]