Dining with Interdependency’ is a new dining scenario with the aim to connect people through design.
Green light pictures 20.05.2022
DESCRIPTION
‘Dining with Interdependency’ is a new dining scenario with the aim to connect people through design.
By focusing on the ritual of food, with a system of tubes and suspended objects, I disrupt everyday rituals and ingrained habits while preparing food, cooking, sharing and eating, promoting connection among people through the act of interdependency.
While organizing, experimenting and analysing multiple dining workshops, I traced several of these values I would like to embrace that foster emotional connections and relationships between the meal participants. Of these, the greatest one I found was in actions of interdependency: situations where two or more people are dependent on each other. During these hilarious moments of shared discomfort, to my surprise new ways of communication, interaction, imagination, playfulness and care for each other occurred. I meticulously described these experiments for my research as a basis for my proposal for a new dining scenario, with the ultimate goal to connect people through design.
I this way, I want to show the potential and the value of design on people’s wellbeing. A potential that I think is still hidden because of the normative aesthetics and standardisation of our built environment. Nowadays, this is still dictated by the Vitruvian scale on ideal measures and proportions for the human body. This culture of standardisation intensified by the introduction of the first Modernist architecture manuals such as 'Neufert - Architect's Data' (1936), with the objective of enabling a rapid and systematic design of spaces. As such, these manuals solely promote a norm of standard living and efficiency of everyday activities, neglecting the intrinsic values that spatial design can offer like bringing people together and to build social bonds with others as it happens in “Dining with Interdependency”.
Exhibition pictures 4.07.2022
Pictures by Giulia Menicucci
https://giuliamenicucci.myportfolio.com
RESEARCH
Followed and supperted by
Research: Anne Hoogewoning and Gerjan Streng (BRIGHT)
Design: Jan Korbes (Refunc)
Video presentation