One or many?

I registered the domain name foodcourtification.com during a period when the great external malls with their foodcourts still thrived.

Now, many years later, there is a something eerie and abandoned atmosphere about the name foodcourt that lacked ten or twenty years ago.

The foodcourt was an invention to gather most of the restaurants within the mall into one shared space. Sometimes, according to legend, the restaurants differed in style and cuisine, but could share a common kitchen. Thus, the Foodcourt can be regarded as a symbiosis between one and many.

The image generator Bing DALLE-2 created this image from the prompt “foodcourtification”.

The blog is maintained by “The Chef” Kristian Nilsson, who is @kristianvadur on Twitter.

Most of the images on this blog are prompted with Microsoft Image Maker and Dalle-E 2.