Gyumri Market Culinary School International Design Competition , Gjumri / Armenien

 

 

The TUMO Center for Creative Technologies is partnering with Institut Lyfe in Lyon to establish a unique culinary ecosystem in the Armenian city of Gyumri with the support of the European Union. The 8,000 square meter, 9 million dollar project involves revitalizing the historic food market of the city, establishing a unique culinary school in the heart of it, and surrounding it with restaurants and shops that are symbiotic with the market and the school.

 

At the center of the project is education, in the form of a new type of culinary school, one that does not need an army of permanent in-house chefs to deliver high-level culinary education. Gyumri‘s Culinary School will empower students to learn and create on their own and collaborate with visiting professionals from all around the world.

 

With Institut Lyfe‘s support, TUMO will create tasty self-learning content and a new system for fostering excellence in an emerging culinary scene. Located inside the market, Gyumri‘s future culinary school will be in permanent exchange with local products, vendors and restaurateurs, putting students in direct contact with food, farmers and foodies.

 

At TUMO, we strongly believe in free-of-charge, consensual and interactive education. Driven by our ambition to create life changing learning experiences, we want to empower students to discover their own paths by providing them access to high-quality pedagogy and opportunities.

 

To date, we have trained 60,000 students, hosted thousands of learning labs, opened 16 TUMO centers in Armenia and 10 around the world, and taught creative technologies to young people from all backgrounds.

 

Supported by Institut Lyfe‘s three-decades long experience in teaching culinary arts, we have now embarked on a journey to reinvent culinary education through a partnership between tradition and innovation. Founded by French chef Paul Bocuse, „the pope of gastronomy,“ Institut Lyfe is a landmark in the gastronomic world and has recently taken on the mission of modernizing and rethinking its time-honored approach to transmitting know-how.

 

June 13, 2024: Competition launched

July 19, 2024: Registration and Stage 1 submissions due

July 26, 2024: Finalists picked and contacted

Aug 19 - Sep 15: Three-day workshop in Armenia

Sept 20, 2024: Winner selected