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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Journal of Dreams 5: 20th Anniversary issue!
Announcing the launch of the twentieth anniversary issue of the Journal of Dreams. This issue continues the dream of a young boy who, impatient of waiting for monthly periodicals to follow the adventures of his favorite comic book hero, decided to create his own publication to send to his loyal subscribers and contributing friends. Since those first four issues, much has changed, but the dream has somehow remained the same.
Pratt Kitchen: Pilot Event
The Pratt Kitchen pilot event brings together artists, chefs, and cultural figures for a night of conversations and performances to address the increased importance of exploring the ecology, science, art, and politics of food in design disciplines. By offering a deeper understanding of our natural, social and technological environment, the event further introduces the ambitions of the Pratt Kitchen initiative.
USA Pavilion at Milan EXPO Innovation Programs
World fairs have always been about innovation. Milan Expo 2015, with the theme of “Feeding the Future, Energy for Life”, is no exception. As part of U.S. participation in the Expo, the USA Pavilion’s “Feeding the Accelerator” program explores new possibilities in farming, food distribution, nutrition, community building and knowledge sharing.
Mentor Minds interview series
Mentor Minds is a series of short video interviews about mentorship, innovation, and culture with leading figures from a variety of industries including food, art, fashion, business, architecture and urbanism.
It is a part of “Feeding the Accelerator”, the innovation program of the USA Pavilion at Milan EXPO 2015. The interviews constitute a form of virtual mentorship to the program’s selected entrepreneurial teams, and to a global community.
Guest editor of Log 34: The Food Issue
Guest edited by Savinien Caracostea and Jan Åman, Log 34 features renowned chefs, including Ferran Adrià, Dan Barber, Massimo Bottura, Magnus Nilsson, Jacques Pépin, and Christina Tosi, as well as critically acclaimed artists like Carsten Höller, Tobias Rehberger, and Rirkrit Tiravanija. In short, countless reasons to focus on food today, from the obvious to the surprising.
“The Architecture of Taste” published by Harvard GSD
The Incidents is a book series based on uncommon events at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design from 1936 to tomorrow copublished by the Harvard University Graduate School of Design and Sternberg Press.
‘Edible Architecture’ in Finesse — Senses Issue
Chef Thomas Keller launched Finesse to provide additional insight into the guest experience at his restaurants and for a larger audience of conscientious diners. Savinien was invited to contribute to the ‘Senses Issue’, writing about Edible Architecture and his pastry installations.