Quarantined Sobremesa

Abstract

This paper looks into the challenge of adapting a Sobremesa (familiar eating ritual from Latin American culture) into a digital platform. Along the design process, Quarantined Sobremesa [QS], weaves the methodological approach of Speculative design and the interdisciplinary research of Food Systems. In the midst of the current COVID-19 pandemic, this digital mealtime provided an interactive platform for different actors and commensality backgrounds across the lockdown globe. Overall, this experience suggested how a meal could be a joyful and critical medium to allocate our everyday eating habits in the bioregional food systems. Consequently, the narrative of this text will articulate a theoretical research review, qualitative data and participant observant notes from [QS], as well as news and journalist information.