What was HackingBullipedia?
HackingBullipedia was an open global challenge organized by elBulliFoundation — the foundation created by chef Ferran Adrià after elBulli restaurant closed — together with Telefónica I+D, the research and development arm of Telefónica.
The challenge asked developers, designers, data scientists and researchers a simple but ambitious question: how could technology help build, organize and explore Bullipedia, elBulliFoundation’s long-term project to map culinary knowledge and the creative process behind cooking?
How the challenge worked
Participants studied a set of challenge scenarios describing what Bullipedia needed to do — from structuring culinary concepts to connecting ideas, techniques and products — and submitted proposals following the published methodology.
An expert jury reviewed the proposals. A selection of the strongest ideas was announced as the top proposals, finalists were invited to present, and the final stage was broadcast as a livecast from Barcelona.
Outcome
Among the winning ideas announced at the end of the challenge were “Genesis” and “Huevo”, a proposal for a programming language designed around culinary processes.
Alongside the technical challenge, the project also ran community activities such as a photo contest and published a media kit for press coverage.
About this archive
The original HackingBullipedia website is no longer online. This page keeps a short record of the project so that links from articles, universities and blogs that once pointed here still lead to relevant information.