Open AccessUsing dialogue to express memories from a meal designer’s gastronomic professional practice
Author(s) -
Daniel Östergren,
Lars Eriksson,
Ing-Marie Jonsson
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
formakademisk
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1890-9515
DOI - 10.7577/formakademisk.4184
Subject(s) - documentation , process (computing) , order (exchange) , computer science , sorting , multimedia , business , programming language , finance
A meal consists of both tangible and intangible dimensions. Menus and photos may be the only documentation from a meal, but experiences are rarely saved beyond memory. The aim of this study is to design a method for documenting intangible aspects of the professional experience of a meal craftsman, based on the memories associated with the files in an archive. By sorting the archive according to a specific process of documentation we managed to revive and document also the intangible aspects of these meals. In order to access the intangible aspects, a version of the Socratic method of dialogue was developed and used. This is exemplified by a case. The dialogues reunited intangible aspects from the memories of the designer, such as motives and drivers, with the tangible archive documents.