Taste as Sensory Information

This workshop marks a new chapter in artist and participatory designer Josafinni's practice. Her work explores how our five senses can become creative tools for making, connecting and understanding the world around us. Through sensory art making, she encourages people to trust their intuitive and embodied knowledge, recognising that our experiences of sight, sound, touch, smell and taste all shape how we relate to place, memory and one another.

While Josafinni has previously worked with multisensory approaches, this residency offers the first opportunity to place food and taste at the centre of her creative process. Together, participants will explore taste as a form of sensory information—how flavours can spark memories, tell stories, evoke emotion and inspire new ways of making. Through shared conversation, playful experimentation and creative activities, the workshop invites everyone to consider food not only as something we consume, but as a material for connection, creativity and collective storytelling.