DATS MashUp: Meridian

THE MASHUP CONTINUES

DATS MashUp is about breaking the cultural and linguistic isolation refugees face here in the Piedmont of North Carolina.

Using food as a communication medium and creating an event (the DATS MashUp Collaborative Cooking event held at the 2010 Design, Art, Technology Symposium), we brought together American professionals, artists, designers, researchers and technologists who had common interests with refugees and newcomers.

Now we follow the leads from the event, tracking how connections made there evolve into relationships, opportunities and for the individual refugees, fuller participation in mainstream American life.

What is DATS MashUp?

FOOD is a reflection of culture.

I developed this project as part of DATS 2010 as way to reach refugee-immigrants in our area and to point out to the American side how much we lose when we fail to capitalize on the region's collective talents and resources.

Sharing food traditions is an obvious, cheap, enjoyable, and humanly-scaled way to reduce obstacles to communication and understanding.

We need people from other lands and traditions who equate food with life to remind us just how bad we've let things go and how we could fix them.

—Andrew Young
http://youngprojects.blogspot.com

DATS 2010 (October 9-11, 2010) is the Design, Art, and Technology Symposium that rotates to High Point, Winston-Salem, and Greensboro, NC each year. http://2010.datstriad.org

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Saturday, October 9, 2010

Meridian

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