Speculative Dinner Experience · 2016
Future Repasts: Company
A dinner experience exploring everything about the art of dining together besides dinner.
Goal & Strategy
A dinner party with nothing to eat.
Goal
Explore dining culture through a participatory lens.
Strategy
Bring the guests into focus by reducing dinner to its essential components and removing all unnecessary distractions.
The Project
Future Repasts was a dinner series that explores the elements of dining culture that have nothing to do with the food. Company, the first event in the series, dove deep into the social aspect of a dinner party by serving nothing but water, potato vodka, and Soylent.
Dinner was served at a clear glass table in a minimalist white room designed to bring the interpersonal into focus. Every place at the table was set with three cylindrical glasses. Guest lists were curated, and the experience could be booked for private parties.
I designed the website and the table, chose the glassware, curated the guest lists, and brought Soylent on as the project's sponsor.
The series was covered by The Guardian, SF Weekly, and Hoodline. The Guardian called it “the world's least-stimulating dinner party,” which was the point.
The Event
Press
- Future Repasts: A Dinner Party With Nothing to Eat SF Weekly · August 2016
- Soylent Dinner Parties Explore Cultural Significance Of Communal Meals Hoodline · July 2016
- 01 Robotopia
- 02 Magic Circle
- 03 The Racket
- 04 What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Stranger
- 05 School Daze
- 06 See You in Heck
- 07 NDA
- 08 Elsewhere
- 09 Hoax
- 10 Fucking Medals
- 11 The Rambler Tourney
- 12 Art Hack Day: DETHRONE
- 13 The Speakeasy
- 14 The Exchange
- 15 The Department of Decontamination
- 16 Party Crashing
- 17 The Gelt Standard
- 18 Future Repasts
- 19 Alternative #Tigerstyle
- 20 The Museum of Cheeselantian Archaeology
- 21 Starship Titanica
- 22 The Order of Byzantium


