Dinners for Radical Care︎︎︎
Ongoing Project. London, UK. Vienna, AT. Umeå, SE.
Unlike formal academic settings, dinners usually take place in relaxed environments, like at home or at a restaurant. Due to the informal nature of a dinner, guests are more likely to share experiences leading to open and honest conversations. Dinners for Radical Care is an ongoing project where informal activities fill formal spaces to allow for important and complex conversations. So far, dinners have taken place in UCL Seminar rooms in London, with activists and TV-producers. At Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien with art students, and at Umeå School of Architecture with practicing architects. With more than twelve dinners organized and 100+ guests served, this project has been a feast of ideas, where every conversation is a recipe for change.
AIS say YES! manifesto workshop
June 23rd 2023, Bartlett School of Architecture, London
Dinner handbook dinner
April 23rd 2023, Bartlett School of Architecture, London
(c) Yiwen Zhao
Killing Self & Learning German Dinner
November 3rd 2023, Akademie der Bildene Künste Wien
Starchitect Workshop
March 18th 2024, Lasarettsbacken, Umeå
And it was warm for several reasons.. Workshop
December 6th 2023 & February 14th 2024, Umeå School of Architecture
Fragmented dinner
March 15th 2023, Bartlett School of Architecture, London
Faith in Trade - Fade in Trade
April 21st 2025, Aarhus, DK
In times of tariff war, products imported from abroad are seen as a threat to society – the salt to your egg, the carrot to your pie, and the liquor to your mouth. Before diving into the incredible Easter meal, guests had to trace the origin of every ingredient used in the different dishes. Not shockingly, the dishes were found to consist of ingredients from all around the world: dairy products and seasonal vegetables were mostly locally sourced; nonseasonal vegetables and seeds originated from Southern Europe; fruits and cacao from West Africa and South America. Shockingly, we did not manage to figure out where many of the ingredients originated from. No information about producer, location, or anything whatsoever was available online or on the original packaging. Last but not least, we (re)discovered that Maldon sea salt originates from Maldon, UK, and Dijon mustard originates from Dijon, France. False alarm.