as expensive as black pepper in Dutch
Beyond (design) Frontiers exhibition
Prague(CZ)
Dec 2024 - Feb 2025
Design exhibition, Gouda Festival 2024
Gouda (NL)
Oct 2024 - Jan 2025
DDW + DAE 2024
Eindhoven (NL)
Oct 2024
Nominated for Social Design Talent Award by Eindhoven municipality
Eindhoven (NL)
Jul 2024
Mapping out the timeline of black pepper international trade and it’s colonial histories
Following the ethnographic research, the project then dives into critical fabulation and speculative fabulation as a methodology for design.
This design methodology emerged from the secondary and primary research into the history of international spice trade, which brought up many instances of overlooked experiences of the marginalised people during the colonial ages. It was through Sadiya Hartman’s critical fabulation in writing and Daniella Rosner’s adaptation of the same in design, that emerged naturally out of my research.
Through an installation of designed artefacts and historical excerpts relating the impacts of this ubiquitous spice on farmers and consumers in India and the Netherlands, Peperduur reflects on the social and economic relationship with black pepper over the centuries, revealing the
political factors that shape how everyday food commodities come to be taken for granted.
How inevitable is today’s socio-economic state of labour-intensive agro-commodities then
really?
Narrative video
Read the thesis here