C.O.O.K.I.E.S














Mentored by Saúl Baeza
Elisava, 2026
Social Design, Critical Design




C.O.O.K.I.E.S Your Consent Is My Meal is an offline experiment on eating informations.

EVERY TIME WE ACCEPT AN INFORMATION NOTICE, WE GIVE AWAY DATA THAT THE
WEB COLLECTS, ACCUMULATES, AND METABOLIZES.

More Detais About the Project

 

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The Aim
The interest of this experiment is not technology itself, but the everyday gesture of accepting and the imbalance between the amount of data we give away and our actual awareness of it

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The Offline Exeperiment The experiment was conducted offline, in public space. I walked through the city and stopped random passersby: strangers with no preparation, no context, no time to think too much. The setup was deliberately simple: I printed a batch of Cookie Receipts. They looked like contracts, receipts.
The ritual began with an innocent but invasive question: “When cookies pop up on your phone, do you usually accept them?” Then the trap: “What if, for a moment, I were your web?” Participants had to choose: consent or refuse. If they consented, I extracted information the way the web does: silently, methodically, and with a smile. After each answer, the core of the experiment took place. Participants were asked to quantify how much they felt they had given me emotionally, comparing their response to a bite, a snack, or a meal. This simple metaphor made an invisible mechanism visible: how heavy is the information we give away every day? A bite was 50 calories. A snack, 250. A full meal, 600. I also observed how answers were given. Was there hesitation? Interruption? Refusal? Because extraction is not only about what is taken, but about how difficult it is to give. My body became the interface. My stomach was the measuring tool. I could only eat, literally, what people gave me as information under the form of cookies. The web eats all day. I lasted five.



Last Updated 24.10.31