MARY-JO GILLIGAN

Tastes Like Lego

The Tastes like Lego project was commissioned by Culturstruction in 2008. The project explored Dublin architecture from a phenomenological perspective. A series of vox-pop surveys were carried out in the recently built public space Barnardos Square in the city centre enquiring about the most cherished experiences of buildings, preferences of interior spatial qualities and synasthesia provoking associations between perceptions of interviewees favourite buildings and gastonomic experiences.

 

These events were intended as catalysts for participants into rethinking architecture and the  resulting information also formed a pop up public archive, complete with a "Buffet of Buildings" tasting station as derived from the surveys, a library of building materials available for sniffing, touching etc. and  an audio listening booth 

 

"...and Francis Street would be like thick, white bread"

 

Also available was a listening post featuring an edited interview with Joe Bollard a radio journalist and musician whose longtime experience of architecture as a blind person offered stimulating phenomenological insight.