Ferran Adrià

Food Design/2009/54 min/Reel № 09.001

ByFerran Adrià

Ferran Adrià: cuisine is an international language

What Can Your Creativity Do?/Recorded 2009

A close reading, kept within reach.

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Ferran Adrià takes food design as a lens on the larger question the festival keeps returning to: what design owes to the people and places it works among. The talk moves from specific projects toward a broader argument about practice.

Recorded in Spain in 2009, the conversation is grounded in Ferran's own working method — the compromises, the constraints, and the moments where the work taught them something they didn't expect.

The closing turn is characteristic of the archive: less a conclusion than a provocation, handed to the audience to carry into their own disciplines.

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Food is the only creative act that we put into our bodies. Ferran Adrià talks about the significance of this.

Ferran Adrià

About the speaker

Ferran Adrià

Barcelona/Spain

Ferran Adrià is the famed head chef of elBulli in Spain, the 3-Michelin-star restaurant that was ranked the best in the world from 2006 to 2009.