Modern Hungers (2024)

WHAT WOULD A POCHA ON MARS SERVE?

Pocha (포차) is a street food tent for friends or foe to drink, snack, and stay a while. It’s how Koreans ferment their hot messes by sharing, listening, and reflecting together.

A Speculative Snack Bar from the Future

Taste planetary longing, edible data, and post-Earth flavors. What will we carry into space – and what will we leave behind? Designed for futurists, climate activists, systems thinkers, and food tech visionaries.

Bar Menu

  • Surely Not Soju

  • Red Velvet Mars Balls
    Materia medica: beetroot (geosmin), pomegranate (regeneration), sparkling water (hydration), chocolate (heart opening), hazelnut (fatty)

  • Soju Sunrise

  • Red Walnuts and Rosemary
    Materia medica: pomegranate (juicy, regeneration), soju (16.1% spirits), red walnuts (memory), rosemary (memory), salts (regulation)

Medicinal Add-ons

  • Mars Essence (balancing)

  • Mimosa Albizia tincture (joy)

  • Neroli hydrosol (uplifting)

Take Home

  • Stories
    Bar Menu
    More care about our Earth
    Deeper connections with yourself, others, and futures