companions digest
︎ ABOUT
Fritto Misto was commissioned to design a celebratory meal as the ending event of Climate Companions. It gathered us around the table to discuss the different forms of climate learning explored in the programme, through an extravagant menu and table setting.
︎ PROCESS
The intervention was envisioned as a celebratory meal and the ending event of Climate Companions. It gathered us around the table to discuss the different forms of climate learning explored in the programme, through an extravagant menu and table setting. Acting as a central stage for discussion on how we foreground care in our everyday actions, this collective meal offered the opportunity to celebrate the knowledge learnt and the work generated during each workshop hosted by the programme.
︎OUTPUT
As a culmination of the Climate Companions programme, the meal was composed of three key courses designed to bring people together and discuss the climate learning gathered during the week. The first, edible soil mountain, allowed the companions to discuss what soil meant to them, and how the health of our soils is fundamental to the health of the local and global ecosystems we are part of. The second course was an explorative performance of crunches resembling typical quotidian sounds of spaces in Poplar. The third course, was a collective collage pudding of the wild foods and fruits which grow in the estate.
The leftover of the meals were used to create natural dyes for future projects.
︎︎︎FOCUS
Exploring different forms of climate learning and how we foreground care in our everyday life
︎︎︎LOCATION
R-Urban, Poplar, London, UK
︎︎︎TEAM
Alisa Ruzavina, Hayley Caine, Ru Kenyon (London Wild Fruits), Cameron Bray, Andrew Belfield
︎︎︎BUDGET
£150
︎︎︎COMMISSIONER
Climate Companions
︎︎︎COLLABORATORS
Alisa Ruzavina, Hayley Caine, Ru Kenyon (London Wild Fruits), Cameron Bray, Andrew Belfield,
R-UrbanPublic Works
