Tarte-ography Workshop
As part of PS21/PATHWAYS: FOOD CULTURES, co-organized by Villa Albertine and PS21, I created and led “Tarte-ography” — an interactive pastry workshop exploring the multi-cultural urbanization of New York City through flavors, textures, and patterns. Participants of all ages collaboratively created a large pastry map using various creams, toppings, and sauces to abstractly interpret the evolution of the city’s diverse cultures and neighborhoods. Building on the conversations of the day, the workshop concluded with the consumption of the intricately composed pastry cityscape.
Hospitality 3.0 Symposium at NYU
The Hospitality 3.0 Symposium focused on redefining hospitality globally by bringing together thought leaders, experts, and innovators from diverse industries. The event inspired conversations and co-created solutions to address ecological, social, and cultural challenges through a new understanding of hospitality across sectors such as travel, education, entertainment, wellness, workplace, and retail.
META Foundation Hospitality 3.0 Framework
The Hospitality 3.0 Framework offers a new reading of the evolving relationship between hospitality and technology to tackle pressing ecological, societal, and cultural challenges. By promoting hospitable, inclusive, and innovative practices, this framework aims to reshape various sectors including travel, entertainment, education, wellness, the workplace, and retail.
Celebrating 10 years of NeueHouse with Savinien Caracostea
To celebrate the 10 years of NeueHouse Madison Square, Savinien Caracostea was selected as one of 6 artists, entrepreneurs, and change-makers whose creative force shaped its community.
NeueHouse Madison Square transformed into an immersive artistic space with activations across multiple floors showcasing creative expression in music, art, dance, and film, with live performances, and culinary delights throughout the evening.
Interview with Anders Frederik Steen in Log 59
Savinien Caracostea interviews celebrated natural wine maker Anders Frederik Steen for the 20th anniversary issue of Log.
To mark Log’s 20 years of observing architecture and the contemporary city, former guest editors and current editorial protagonists were invited to interview someone whose work resonates with their current thinking or concerns, or even with what keeps them up at night. The conversations they initiated range from designing with AI to AI’s possible future consciousness; from natural French wine to Indigenous Mexican textiles; from building architecture to theorizing architecture; from corruption in the building industry to untold histories.
Discussing Virtual Travel on the “Vlan” Podcast
Savinien was invited to speak on the Vlan podcast (in French) to discuss virtual travel, and how new technologies will create new forms of tourism.
Journal of Dreams 11: Flowers
Announcing the launch of the eleventh edition of the Journal of Dreams. This issue assembles a bouquet of unique contributions about flowers, seducing us, but also possibly preying on us, like carnivorous dreams...
Journal of Dreams 10: Oceans
Announcing the launch of the tenth edition of the Journal of Dreams. This issue focuses on oceans, both real and imaginary, where life is created and where the planet dreams.
The Prayer Flag Project — META Foundation
In collaboration with VAST Bhutan and the Rubin Museum of Art in New York City, the META Foundation produced 1080 unique virtual artifacts designed from original assets by Asha Kama, a leading Bhutanese artist. Sales support local educational programs, and the cleaning of the mountains in Bhutan.
Journal of Dreams 9: Cocktails
Announcing the launch of the ninth edition of the Journal of Dreams. This issue focuses on cocktails. Intoxicating us into liquid mythologies, letting our minds wander in uncharted bliss, these synthesized drinks quickly mix with our own neurochemicals to transmit new recipes, spells, and dreams.
Fruit Mandala Installation in Ibiza
Savinien presented his latest pastry installation, a Mandala featuring the vibrant fruits of Ibiza for the RIMA Experience, taking place in the beautiful Temple of Sabina. The installation — consisting of a puzzle of 192 unique tiles — turned into a ceremony during which guests participated in an act of deconstructive co-creation as they took turns consuming the tiles they most connected with.
Announcing Quantum Crumbs
Announcing Quantum Crumbs, your new hyper-methodical authority on all things food. Founded during the pandemic by two New Yorkers, a restless travel journalist and a renegade pastry chef, Quantum Crumbs seeks to quantify the intangible — the taste, flavor, character, and je ne sais crumb of culinary science.
Good Girl Hair Cuts
As another random pandemic project, Savinien published a children’s book venturing into the charming word of canine grooming, specifically that of the most dainty specimens — good girls. This book features 10 good girls getting haircuts. Edition of 100 copies.
Journal of Dreams 8: Night—Trains
Announcing the launch of Night—Trains, the eighth issue of the Journal of Dreams. This issue dives into the mystery of the night, where lost trains of thought are found navigating the dimly lit corridors of our fantasies.
Rapprochements
Conceived as a social media project in the midst of confusion and panic, this project was born out of a prolonged confrontation with the interior of his studio in New York City during the early days of the COVID-19 quarantine. Like many others deemed unessential and unable to go about their typical routines, Savinien had a lot of figuring out to do. The only other occupants of his space were the books and films he had accumulated over the years. Staring at them felt a bit like looking into a mirror, a mirror projecting back a fragmented and layered image — a puzzle which he had never stopped to put together.
Journal of Dreams 7: Hotels
Announcing the launch of Hotels, the seventh issue of the Journal of Dreams. Upon entering your hotel room, you usually have more than your luggage to unpack. Since the revolving doors which led into the lobby, getting dispatched from the reception desk through elevators and corridors in search of a number — your number — you have been assimilating a new environment, both oddly familiar yet strangely mysterious.
Journal of Dreams 6: Shopping
Announcing the launch of Shopping, the sixth issue of the Journal of Dreams. This issue investigates Shopping as an important frontier for dreaming today, as it increasingly blends physical and virtual sensations and experiences, folds desire within commodity, personal expression within mass market trends.
Roberto Burle Marx Tiramisu at NeueHouse
The Pastry in Progress series returns, this time as a giant Tiramisù inspired by the abstract drawings of celebrated modernist Brazilian landscape architect Roberto Burle Marx, whose marbled fluid shapes and colors are reminiscent of folding creams, and evoke synesthetic fields of tastes and senses.
Introducing ‘Pastry in Progress’ series at NeueHouse
‘Pastry in Progress’ is an event series I started at NeueHouse, staging pastry through its deep and ongoing history of tradition, experimentation, and spectacle, by bringing together classical typologies with contemporary contexts, ideas, and speculations.
Editorial for CLOG X ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Savinien Caracostea co-wrote the editorial piece for CLOG x ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, critically examining AI from its earliest speculations to its future...and ours. Clog is an international publication that critically explores one topic at a time from as many perspectives as possible. Succinctly, on paper, away from the distractions and imperatives of the screen.