Sapiens is the research methodology that applies to all elBullifoundation projects, such as Bullipedia. It can be applied to any topic, and serves to understand first and act later, with various purposes such as: managing information, learning, teaching, communicating, analyzing the context of a company, analyzing a company, improving aspects of a company, creating or innovate.
This methodology has already been applied in several projects promoted alone by the foundation and also in projects in collaboration with external organizations such as Grifols, Esade, Roca, Sant Joan de Déu, HP, FC Barcelona, Ara newspaper, Prodigioso Volcán, Dom Pérignon, Disney, Caixabank, Fundación Telefónica or AECOC. The definition of the methodology has been parallel to its application in these projects in an experimental way.
The Sapiens of Western gastronomic restoration is the project that applies the Sapiens methodology to the study of this discipline. It has been the driving force behind the foundation since 2014 at elBulliLab, and continues to this day, as it is a long-term project.
The disclosure of the Sapiens of Western gastronomic restoration is done through Bullipedia, a multimedia platform for editing content in different formats, which is the first encyclopedia on gastronomy, creativity and innovation in the world.
elBulli1846 is an exhibition lab in which we study, research and experiment to generate knowledge with the Sapiens methodology, and in which we will use the exhibitions as a working tool.
During the second call for elBulli1846, held from April 01 to June 30, 2021, the team immersed itself in the Sapiens methodology, until it became internalized as a tool-beacon for its research projects. Find out how they lived it in the first person.
elBullifoundation has used Sapiens as the basis for proposing the contents of various exhibitions such as "Auditing the creative process" (2014), "Eating Knowledge" (2015) and "Sapiens. Understanding to create" (2016)
elBulliDNA, a team made up mainly of artists, had the mission of identifying the genome of the creative process. We learned a lot, for example, about their way of working, and they gave us a more holistic view of creation and innovation.
LABulligrafia is the museum-archive project dedicated to elBullirestaurante that will include a digital archive and a physical installation, it has required digitizing physical documents, collecting digital material and establishing classification criteria. In digital support, applying several criteria in parallel and defining connections.
Grifols has analyzed its historical archive, reviewing the milestones that have made the company a benchmark for innovation in hemotherapy. The project, called Grifology, takes a look at the past to understand the present and move towards the future, and has in The Cabinet, the innovation archive, its first result.
A project led by AECOC, the Association of Manufacturers and Distributors, which applies the Sapiens methodology to the study of the channel food delivery in order to connect and generate knowledge that will be shared with its partners and with related sectors through value-added activities and services.
The audit of the creative process, a tool developed by elBullifoundation together with ESADE that is part of the Sapiens methodology, has been applied by Roca, the Sant Joan de Déu Hospital, HP and the Barça Innovation Hub in the framework of a competition between students, and the newspaper Ara de Barcelona internally.
Prodigioso Volcán structures his works with the Sapiens methodology. It seeks knowledge connected with a first phase dedicated to understanding, which includes discovery and diagnosis, and ends with the application of creative auditing to assess the creative process carried out with clients.
Applying the Sapiens methodology, together with the Dom Pérignon team, we decoded its genome in order to discern what makes this brand of champagne unique.
I tell you in the kitchen, published in April 2016, is a different recipe book, an excellent excuse to learn while playing, with a clear objective: to promote good eating habits, bringing gastronomy closer to the family through entertainment and new technologies.
The books "Mise en place" and "Food & Beverage" are part of the collaboration with Caixabank to guide anyone who wants to start in the restaurant sector, among the complex web of roles, actions, planning and procedures necessary to start a project.
Creative Schools was a project developed jointly with Fundación Telefónica that applied Sapiens to the field of education. Different aspects that represent the day to day and the basis of the educational reality in schools were studied to raise awareness of the importance of the entrepreneurial spirit and facilitate the understanding of innovation.
The content generation process for books and websites of elBullifoundation follows the three main phases of Sapiens: an initial phase in which the object of study is delimited, a central phase of knowledge generation, and a final phase in which it ends the content in its final form, working closely with the design team.
