The Sandwich Symposium (video)

The Jon Bon Jovi Soul Foundation is an organization that assists people experiencing food and housing insecurity. In this post, their inspiring work was used for a hypothetical experience design concept in a continuing education class with Experiential Studio Berlin.

Currently, the JBJ Soul Foundation operates three community restaurants in New Jersey, where customers pay what they can, and everyone is invited to sit down, eat, and be part of the experience. Here we recommend adding lunch trucks to their repertoire, but with a laughable (and lunchable) twist.

I've taken direction from Henri Bergson's paper, "Laughter: An Essay on the Meaning of the Comic" (1900). I love this essay. I feel that I understand it implicitly, but rather than explain why, I'll just say that I believe that our individual selves were not inevitable. We're alive and we're responsible for defining the meaning of our thoughts and movements. This is actually a big responsibility, and I see that people are struggling with it. If we could learn to cue each other to take a little bit of emotional distance between the events of our lives and our feelings about them, it would be a wonderful kindness.

Enjoy :)

WARNING: This video contains AI-generated content (and lots of it).