For the 2008 London Festival of Architecture, A+M created a 3D jelly mold computer model of the Edible History of Russia. Russian history is a peculiar subject, on many levels - in this case we were intrigued by a clearly emerged confusion between the country's various pasts - its Imperial and its Soviet history. The preferences today are mixed - and that confusion is even evident in the official state symbology and other everyday manifestations. The Edible History is literally a morph of the two old symbols – the star and the eagle. Each single iteration of this morph is only a part of a whole range. Together these patterns describe the present hybridization of Russian history far better than any “whole” symbol. Created in black & red currant jelly (morphing proportionally along with the star and the eagle), the Edible History was produced by Bompas & Parr, and was a finalist in the London Festival of Architecture Jelly Competition, along with Sir Norman Foster, Sir Richard Rogers, Sir Nicholas Grimshaw, Will Alsop and others.
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