Hat, Hand Or Boot: A Procedural Architecture Restaurant
Presented by Interior Design RMIT & Long Prawn & Emerald Wise Studio
DETAILS
Ticketed
Rooftop Pavilion
Building 100 (Design Hub) - RMIT University, Victoria Street, Carlton VIC, Australia
Hat, Hand, or Boot is a project that explores the communal act of dining and centres on a theatrical meal, held on the 24th of May. Master students from RMIT Interior Design, School of Architecture and Urban Design will design and make each element of the dinner party, from spoons and bowls to tables and chairs, as a contemplation on the complex entanglement of self and world.
At the dinner party, Long Prawn will collaborate with students to prepare a conceptual feast centred on three provocations that could represent the future of food. In thinking, redefining, and challenging food, we must confront some harsh realities: broken systems riddled with corn syrup, food deserts, and extreme waste. As we redesign our implements for sitting, eating, and sharing, one hopes surely, that we can redesign our ability to eat consciously and conscientiously.
This progressive offering of snacks will offer four future forward morsels upon elements of progressive design. An open mind and palette are recommended. Please note that due to the experimental and temporary nature of this event, not all dietary requirements can be accommodated. The menu will primarily feature plant-based options, with some well-sourced animal products included
Participants
Long Prawn
Long Prawn is a series of food interventions that joyously, reflectively, chaotically and theatrically engage its thoughts and emotions around the topic of eating. Channelled hanger, create menus, workshops, cookbooks, research and artworks, hoping to enrich communities and the wider foodscape it shares. While LB Stephens and Fred Mora are central to each outcome, a wide cohort of artists, designers, producers, cooks and chefs contribute critically.
Emerald Wise
Emerald is a creative practitioner, academic, and educator, in the expanded field of architecture, whose work revolves around ways of looking at the world and embodied processes for enacting knowledge. She co-founded UNMAKE studio, and the architectural practice Whispering Smith - which she left in 2018 - and has participated in the activation of numerous studio and exhibition spaces.
Robert Sowter
Rob - Bob - is a sessional academic in architecture, a maker and specialty fabricator, and the producer of some of the finest rhum and gin in Melbourne. He founded the award-winning Melbourne based gin and rhum company, Lantana.