P | A | N
A mobile bakery inviting communities to produce and bake bread in public space.
Proyecto Amasandería Nacional (2016)
Barrio Yungay, Santiago, Chile
Collaborators:
Catalina Pollak Williamson + Workshop Latitud Sur 2016, Facultad Arquitectura Arte Diseño, Universidad Diego Portales.
Comissioned by:
Simmens-Stiftung Foundation and the Chilean Ministry of Culture as part of the ‘Changing Spaces’ public art project.
Photo credits:
Nicole Diaz
Proyecto Amasandería Nacional (P | A | N) is a mobile bakery that travels the streets of barrio Yungay (Santiago, Chile) inviting the local and newly arrived communities to participate of a collective action: to bake bread in public space.
Part urban performance and part ethnographic machine, P | A | N uses the process of bread-making -in its universal simplicity and cultural density- as a vehicle for social integration within a neighbourhood challenged by the flows and clashes of new cultures.
A typical baker's tricycle modified to transport a traditional clay oven along other documentation devices, travelled a total of 20 kms during the 10-day intervention, baking more than 75 kilos of bread and collecting a total of 287 recipes from participants. The documented recipes allowed for the collection of oral histories which give an account of the cultural diversity that exists today in Yungay.
57% of Chileans feel threatened with the arrival of immigrants, and 40% think that because of immigration Chile is losing its identity.
Results from Longitudinal Chilean Studies (ELSOC) from the Centre for Conflict and Social Cohesion (COES) 2016.