The Idea: Flavours as Metaphor One rainy afternoon, while sheltering under a café awning, Valeria described a recipe she had invented—a dessert that balanced surprising elements. Mia, thinking in lists and categories, suggested they use “flavours” as a way to document and interpret experiences. They decided to assign four flavours—sweet, sour, bitter, umami—to moments in their lives and then to create a series of small experiments and outings built around those tastes. The project was playful but also intentional: by tasting life through simple, universal categories, they could tease out emotional subtleties and test how perception shifts with context.

A "Color Challenge" where they only eat foods of a specific hue. 2. The Grading Scale