Michael Guggenheim is a sociologist and STS researcher focusing on the work of experts and their relationship to lay people in various fields such as disaster management, architecture and environmental research. He has pioneered the use of performative experiments to engage lay people in sociological concerns. His interest in food comes from a parallel lay career as a cook and various attempts to bring his sociology to amateur cooks. He has created a large number of events to collaborate in sociological cooking. For example, he has run a sociological cooking class at Akademie Schloss Solitude, he has created new forms of food emergency provision at Delphina Foundation, and most recently has created an exhibition called “Taste! Experiments for the Senses” at the Museum of Natural History, Berlin. Michael co-directs the Kitchen Research Unit at Goldsmiths.
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