Panel
Be Food, Be Water: Our Journeys Behind Diasporic Recipes
“食物流动，我流动”：异乡食谱中的社会流变与生命体验
📅 19 Apr 2026, 16:45—17:45
📍 Copeland Gallery, London SE15 3SN
💬 Mandarin
人类流动时，食物首先要被随身携带。因为地区、食材、烹饪者、食用者甚至时代的不同，食物也在流动中变换形态，却能流传至今。食物的第一场景是个体和家庭，以日复一日折射出家族历史和人生选择。而在移民、尤其是华人移民群体中，食物又往往成为谋生手段，跨过文化间隔，嵌入异乡的社会环境。人携带食物，也是携带自己的主体性；而食物通过人的口传手授，不断变化，形成自己的生命力。
本场对谈将以两个具体的食物研究与设计项目为起点，分享食物在空间与时间中的具体变迁，以及个体如何在一次次食物相关的抉择中改变生活。我们将通过“家庭—社会”和“中国—荷兰”的对照，咀嚼食物所承载的个体流动经验与与社会生存策略。
彩蛋：对谈的结尾，我们将邀请大家一起参与手工互动，以一种与流动的生命体验极为相关的中餐食物，承载整场对谈的丰富感受。
When humans are on the move, food is the first thing to be carried along. As regions, ingredients, cooks, eaters, and even eras change, food transforms in the course of its own journey — yet endures across time. The primary scene of food is the individual and the family, reflecting, day by day, the history of a lineage and the choices of a life. Among migrants — and especially among Chinese migrant communities — food often becomes a means of livelihood, crossing cultural divides and embedding itself into the social fabric of a foreign land. People carry food, and in doing so carry their own sense of selfhood; while food, passed down through word of mouth and hand to hand, continuously evolves and takes on a life of its own. This conversation will take two specific food research and design projects as its starting point, exploring the concrete ways in which food shifts across space and time, and how individuals reshape their lives through the decisions they make around food. Through the dual lenses of "family versus society" and "China versus the Netherlands," we will chew over the personal experiences of mobility and the social strategies of survival that food carries within it. Bonus: At the close of the conversation, we will invite everyone to take part in a hands-on interactive activity — featuring a Chinese food deeply connected to the experience of a life in motion — as a way of embodying the richness of everything we have explored together.
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Outland Publishing Fair 2026
📍Copeland Gallery, London SE15 3SN
📅 17 Apr (Fri) 14:00-19:00
18 Apr (Sat) —19 Apr (Sun) 11:00 - 18:00
Facilitator: Tiantong @1000小食。1000小食联合发起人。
Speaker: 小样 @1000小食。1000小食发起人。家庭食谱记录者，本土饮食文化传播者。
1000小食简介：
1000小食是一个来自中国的饮食文化传播品牌。2021年发起“寻找1000位家庭食谱记录者”的社会参与计划：通过家庭食谱深入地方饮食文化，也发掘个体在流动中对“家”的新定义与丰富情感。我们希望“为离开家的人，在饭桌上建立家”。
1000PIECES is a food culture communication brand from China. In 2021, it launched a social participation project called "In Search of 1000 Family Recipe Keepers": through family recipes, the project delves into local food cultures while uncovering new definitions of "home" and the rich emotions of individuals on the move. Our hope is: For those who have left home, build a dining table as a home.
Speaker: Ziyi Lian @To Be Cooked
连子宜，社会设计师与独立研究者，To Be Cooked联合发起人。她在社群、食物、公共空间与平民文化的交汇处探索替代性叙事并进行社会干预。目前，她的研究聚焦荷兰中餐馆中的温州移民社群。
To Be Cooked为成立于2023年的食物文化研究与设计实践团队，现流动于于荷兰和中国之间。通过公众参与、出版与食物设计，团队捕捉或介入具体社会语境下的饮食实践，使食物成为连接个体经验、地方现实与公共议题的入口。
Ziyi Lian, social designer and independent researcher. Co-initiator of To Be Cooked. She explores alternative narratives at the intersection of community, food, public space and civilian culture, while creating space for social intervention. She is currently researching on the Wenzhou migrant community in Chinese restaurants in the Netherlands.
Initiated in 2023, To Be Cooked is a research and design collective focusing on culinary culture, currently flowing between the Netherlands and China. Through public engagement, publishing, and food-based design, it aims to capture and intervene in socially-situated practices around food, using it as an entry point to connect individual experiences, local conditions, and broader social issues.