Authenmathai
Authenmathai asked what people mean by authentic Thai food and imagined a machine that could assemble the expected qualities and ingredients. The archived text treats automation as a way to question the category.
A speculative food machine
The project belongs to speculative design: a proposed object opens a conversation about values and assumptions. Treating authenticity as something that could be assembled by a machine makes the difficulty of defining it especially visible.
Historical evidence
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