味來復興 Flavor Renaissance

味來復興 Flavor Renaissance

陳苡瑄、蘇筱喬
2026/ 推測設計 / 食物媒材、複合媒材

   現代飲食的趨勢逐漸朝向橫向發展。食物的製作時間越來越短，人們總是渴望新的組合與變化，而非長時間的深入理解某一食材的風味與層次。這樣的飲食模式與高度自動化、由 AI 主導選擇的生活型態密切相關，使人們的感官逐漸退化，進食成為一種無感的例行公事。

    當我們將這些飲食趨勢推向極端，發現「飼料」這種進食形式完美符合當代邏輯的進化結果：多元風味、模組生產、快速方便、低感情投入。《味覺復興》便是從這個極端出發，試圖反向提問：當進食只剩能量補給，該如何喚回進食的感官與意義？我們嘗試透過質地、形狀、攝食方式的設計，將食物重新塑造成「可被意識到的物件」，喚起人們對飲食的感官與思考。

    我們希望透過這件作品探討在虛擬與數位逐漸主導的未來社會中，食物該如何仍保有作為真實物件的可能性。當一切感官都能被虛擬取代時，也許進食是我們與現實世界連結最後的證明。

Contemporary food culture is increasingly oriented toward horizontal expansion. As preparation time continues to shrink, people seek constant novelty in combinations and variation, rather than cultivating a deeper understanding of the flavor and complexity of a single ingredient. Closely intertwined with highly automated lifestyles and AI-driven decision-making, this mode of consumption gradually erodes human sensory perception, reducing eating to an almost unconscious routine.

When these tendencies are pushed to their extreme, “feed” emerges as the logical culmination of contemporary consumption: diverse in flavor, modular in production, efficient, and requiring minimal emotional engagement. Flavor Renaissance begins from this extreme condition and poses a critical question: when eating is reduced to mere energy intake, how might we recover its sensory depth and meaning? Through the design of texture, form, and modes of consumption, we seek to reframe food as an object of awareness—one that reactivates perception and invites reflection.

Through this work, we further examine how, in a future increasingly dominated by virtual and digital systems, food might still retain its status as a tangible, real object. When all other senses can be simulated or replaced, eating may remain the final proof of our connection to reality.