Francesco Ferrero

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Multidisciplinary designer and craft practitioner interested in transformative practices and traditional artisanship.


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Companaticum
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Companaticum

FoodCraft

Domaine de Boisbuchet - Lessac, France
– 2024

A research-based project at the intersection of design, food, and craft, Companaticum was conceived with the aim of investigating and illustrating the adaptability of bread as a participatory practice among individuals over the course of a month. The project utilizes bread as an expressive and collective tool capable of narrating a ritual as commonplace yet intricate as bread-making. Divided into five acts, the project delves into various stages of bread-making, each explored through a distinct gesture.

ACT I - Sourdough Involves the creation and development of a sourdough starter essential for bread-making.

ACT II - Hands Entails the collective act of kneading involving participants utilizing a large kneading trough.

ACT III - Fire Represents the baking process in a wood-fired oven, for which ready-made objects are provided.

ACT IV - Ritual Constitutes the exhibition/presentation of the work accomplished during the month-long residency, followed by the tasting of the breads.

ACT V - New Bread Involves the drying and gifting of sourdough starter to participants, enabling the creation of new bread from each.



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Images:
1-2 Bread trough

3-4 Oven accessories

5-6 Collective kneading (photo credits: Elisa Pietracito)
7-8 8kg of bread 

Participatory project developed during the Nuovo Grand Tour residency at Domaine de Boisbuchet , Lessac (France), supported by the French Embassy in Italy, the Institut Français - Italia, the Direzione Generale - Creatività Contemporanea, the Italian Cultural Institute in Paris.


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