Exploring foodscapes as public spaces for integration
FOOD2GATHER, together with other HERA projects PUTSPACE and SPAS, will hold a webinar on ‘rethinking public spaces in times of social distancing’. All interested are welcome to join! Please click here to read more about the event and to register. Keynote speakers are Laurent Thévenot (École des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales) and F2G’s Rick […]
Researchers from FOOD2GATHER attended the conference Migrant belongings: digital practices and everyday life this year, which took place digitally 21st-23 April. The F2G project investigates the roles that food play in creating public spaces and shaping communication and relations between places and the people who inhabit them. For this conference, we thus organised a panel […]
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 […]
On October 22nd and 23rd, we organized our annual FOOD2GATHER meeting. These two days were the opportunity for us to meet up, share our ideas, to discuss our research advances, and to plan our future activities. However, this time, we were not able to enjoy sunny Italy or its delicious cuisine between our two intensive […]
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 […]
Information meeting of the project with the resident of the Red Cross reception center At the beginning of December, we invited the residents of the Red Cross reception center to participate in an information meeting about the Food2Gather project. The aim of this meeting was to inform people about the progress of the research. In […]
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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 […]