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A Cup of Coffee: Bridging the Gap

Made by Naomi Sternstein

Coffee. It is something that almost all of us include in our daily rituals, but we often forget how much of a “ritual” this is for us. We forget that the little details of how we drink our coffee, when we drink it, where and how much are symbolic of our cultural trends and values. Data collected on the intricate ways in which each culture experiences coffee can be used to create an installation that will allow us all to experience and understand coffee, thus bridging the “culture gap,” the “language barrier”. We can understand each other and our mentalities through a ritual as simple and yet as complex and specific as coffee, and the embedded significance of the coffee experience.

Created: September 14th, 2014

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Coffee. It is something that almost all of us include in our daily rituals, but we often forget how much of a “ritual” this is for us. We forget that the little details of how we drink our coffee, when we drink it, where and how much are symbolic of our cultural trends and values.

Data collected on the intricate ways in which each culture experiences coffee can be used to create an installation that will allow us all to experience and understand coffee, thus bridging the “culture gap,” the “language barrier”. We can understand each other and our mentalities through a ritual as simple and yet as complex and specific as coffee, and the embedded significance of the coffee experience.