Creative Dining

DDW • Reinventing the familiar dinner format

How do we transform an average social dining experience into a more creative and collaborative experience?

Year

2020

Details

An experiential social dinner performance of two strangers, who replicate the making process that went into creating the dinnerware

Design brief: Dutch Design Week 2021 Theme: Think with your hands

concept

Our social dining experience is an experiential performance that departs from the familiar dinner form that takes place at 6:22 p.m., at home or in a restaurant, between two people who know each other. We invited two diners, strangers to each other, to eat from our dinnerware with their hands, standing and without speaking. In this, they mirrored our collaborative making experience: a physical and transformative conversation in gestures.