Thaipark: A Practiced Spatial Appropriation

With Je Yen Tan
Supervised by Prof. Rainer Hehl
Berlin, Germany
2024

One of the most common entry points into another culture is through food. It transcends linguistic barriers to instill collective identities and bridge cultures through sensory perceptions.

The Thai diaspora in Berlin disrupts conventional understandings of physical boundaries enforced by nation-states through a partially reconstructed sense of place held within the act of cooking.

Any space can be transformed through the preperation of food. As an act, it suggests a sense of community and exchange.

One of the most common entry points into another culture is through food. It transcends linguistic barriers to instill collective identities and bridge cultures through sensory perceptions.

The Thaipark is a practiced spatial appropriation. A cultural phenomenon that has endured through the appreciation of food.

This project reconstructs and reinterprets this knowledge gained from the Thaipark in order to generate a space for cultural exchange and belonging.

I live, work and learn on Wurundjeri country. Always was, always will be, Aboriginal land.