Initiator, project manager and octopus of Creative Tastebuds.

I am an anthropologist, working at Aarhus University. Through the years I have done research on children and childhood, Danish welfare institutions, the meaning of hominess, Cuban sugar cultures and food anthropology. I recently wrote the book Taste (until now only available in Danish), and with Carole Counihan the book Making Taste Public, where I argue for taste as a social and cultural concept. I teach fieldwork methodology, food culture and museum exhibition/anthropological dissemination. I have worked with several experimental projects on food and taste, and am also engaged in filmmaking and visual anthropology.

Contact: etnosh@cas.au.dk

Co-developer of the event and responsible for the side activities taking place at the symposium. 

I’m the project coordinator of the Danish national research and communication center Taste for Life. Here, I facilitate all the fantastic, interdisciplinary projects on taste emerging between researchers, chefs, teachers and students. I’m fortunate to thrive on their clever, enthusiastic and creative work – and learn how a focus on taste can promote better lives.

Contact: misc1@ucl.dk

Coordinates PR, social media, website, press contact, etc. 

I am a journalist and head of communications in Taste for Life. I report on the work done by researchers, teachers, chefs and students in Taste for Life, transforming it into popular science articles, videos or try-at-home-experiments. I also guide the media and edit the social media profiles for Taste for Life and Creative Tastebuds. With Mikael Schneider, I co-authored the book “Sådan smager børn” on children’s taste.

Contact: evry@ucl.dk

Secretary and assistant in the organizing group. PR, communication with participants, organization of innovation showcases and volunteers, and editor of the CT webpage.

I am currently on the masters programme of Anthropology at Aarhus University. For several years i have worked together with Susanne Højlund as a student helper and research assistant on different projects,  hereunder Taste for Life, the research center FOCUS and Creative tastebuds. I find food studies interesting and important because food is such a big part of our everyday lives, and food has the possibility to affect, change, and support the way we see ourselves, the world, and all the social and cultural situations we are embedded in every time we deal with food in one way or the other. 

Contact: nahb@cas.au.dk