1 August 2010 - 30 June 2011
Spacex, in partnership with Villages in Action, has commissioned artist Helen Pritchard to build The Recipe Exchange. Working with communities around Exeter, this project will offer an on and offline sharing space for community know how. The project will begin in Farringdon and Woodbury Salterton, East Devon.
Over the coming months, residents and visitors will share 'how to' recipes in a number of ways. Participants will be able to write their recipes on cards and send them via specially installed post boxes in the villages or contribute via The Recipe Exchange website. The recipes may be food related but they could also be instructions for making or doing something entirely different; such as farming lavender or collecting bio data.
The aim is to build up a bank of recipes as a common resource for the communities, and inspire a series of events that are co-hosted by local residents. The on and offline archive of recipe cards will re-present contemporary life in the village; not only as a portrait of who lives there in 2011 but also the skills they have to share.
The project has grown out of Helen's current research into open innovation and the social dimension of verbal scores and instructions. It explores the potential of sharing, performing and modifying instructions as a tool to create community dialogue and social capital. The Recipe Exchange explores how making structures enables public participation and engages diverse groups of people.
To submit a recipe, view submissions or for further information about The Recipe Exchange and associated events please visit:
www.therecipeexchange.org
For further information about Helen Pritchard please visit:
www.helenpritchard.info
Spacex, in partnership with Villages in Action, has commissioned artist Helen Pritchard to build The Recipe Exchange. Working with communities around Exeter, this project will offer an on and offline sharing space for community know how. The project will begin in Farringdon and Woodbury Salterton, East Devon.
Over the coming months, residents and visitors will share 'how to' recipes in a number of ways. Participants will be able to write their recipes on cards and send them via specially installed post boxes in the villages or contribute via The Recipe Exchange website. The recipes may be food related but they could also be instructions for making or doing something entirely different; such as farming lavender or collecting bio data.
The aim is to build up a bank of recipes as a common resource for the communities, and inspire a series of events that are co-hosted by local residents. The on and offline archive of recipe cards will re-present contemporary life in the village; not only as a portrait of who lives there in 2011 but also the skills they have to share.
The project has grown out of Helen's current research into open innovation and the social dimension of verbal scores and instructions. It explores the potential of sharing, performing and modifying instructions as a tool to create community dialogue and social capital. The Recipe Exchange explores how making structures enables public participation and engages diverse groups of people.
To submit a recipe, view submissions or for further information about The Recipe Exchange and associated events please visit:
www.therecipeexchange.org
For further information about Helen Pritchard please visit:
www.helenpritchard.info
