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A Taste of Home – The VR Community Kitchen

To explore how VR can serve as a sensory archive for disappearing cultural food practices, focusing on the rituals, sounds, and communal experiences of dining.










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Developed an immersive VR kitchen to preserve and reconstruct cultural dining experiences in a speculative future where traditional meals are no longer accessible.

Integrated spatial audio design, using sound as a primary sensory trigger—allowing users to experience the presence of food through its preparation, serving, and communal sharing rather than taste.

Designed interactive 3D artefacts, including table settings, cookware, and ingredients, to capture the essence of communal cooking within a virtual space.



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The experience effectively evoked nostalgia and highlighted the role of cultural memory in food identity.

However, the project functioned more as a preservationist archive than a speculative intervention, making it less aligned with the intended exploration of future food scarcity and its emotional impact.

These insights led to a shift in focus—from archiving food culture to speculating on the evolving relationship between food, memory, and survival, ultimately shaping the next iterations of the project.






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