EMMA, by the german architecture team Raumlabor, is a mobile table that grows and adaptes as needed. it is a series of 7 tables built from old pallets, bamboo sticks and empty cable rolls that traveled through Geneve like a train being a structure for dinners, cinema, building an imaginary city with children, round table and performance.
Now, for two years EMMA will travel through the Mariannenquarter in Berlin-Kreuzberg and host several events in the courtyards of the neighbourhood.
Built in 2011 in London, Ridleys: Temporary Restaurant by Atelier ChanChan turned a void inside a market into a new food experience. Meals with “zero food miles’” were prepared at ground-floor level, cooking the market produce and then were raised by a mechanical table up to the guests on the first floor.
A POP-UP OUTDOOR FOOD MARKET IN THE HEART OF HACKNEY
The Long Table is all about conviviality and bringing people together. Grounded in the importance of local chefs, purveyors and producers, the Long Table celebrates all different types of foods and tastes. As visitors graze the wealth of dishes on offer, they will experience the sense of warmth inherent in a big gathering.
Markets are the heart of many communities, a place where people come together to eat and socialize. East London has a rich cultural diversity and with that comes an interesting mix of foodies, chefs, artists and musicians. Bootstrap Company wanted a place that allowed locals to come together through the sharing of food.
The project mobile hospitality by Stadpark kollectiv pays attention to an important aspect of the design work of collective stadtpark – the responsibility and the self-initiative in public space. The city, as space that does not belong to anyone, but at the same time to all. It is merely used by us actively, as it used to be in former times. It has decreased to the background of our everyday activities. Responsibility for the outdoor space, for most of the inhabitants stops at their garden fence. The project mobile hospitality starts just here.Designers Anna Rosinke and Maciej Chmara drive with a wheelbarrow kitchen, table and ten folding stools from place to place to sit and eat in public space with spontaneously joining passers-by. At this big table, design meets delight and discussion and is a very good opportunity to get to know each other. The project took place in Vaduz, Dornbirn, Bregenz and Feldkirch in summer and autumn 2011 and was initiated and supported by Art Design Feldkirch and Tschabrun Wood.
Ridley’s, a temporary dining experience in Dalston, is a project by The Decorators and Atelier ChanChan. This group of designers-artists-architects have transformed an exposed yet derelict void in Ridley Road market, into a podium for outdoor exhibitionist eating.
For the month of September a two-storey structure will rise above the stalls, housing a new kind of market food initiative. Come and exchange market produce for a meal if you’re having lunch or bring £15 if you’re looking for dinner (includes your dinner and a £5 food shopping voucher for use at the market ).
Look Mum No Hands, a bar, cafe and bike workshop all rolled into one that has already become a haven for serious bike addicts who bring their machines for repairs, and commuters who simply want to use the free Wi-Fi or eat snacks and salads while watching live screenings of cycle races.
http://www.lookmumnohands.com/
In the centre of the neighborhood Benauge in Bordeaux (France) last May the French collective Bruit du Frigo set up Le Brasero. A temporary multifunctional structure that can serve as restaurant, salon de thé, open air gym, social and meeting area.
Eating local and meeting locals. Eat With Me is a social networking site that allows you to meet new people in your neighbourhood by organising and attending events and sharing a meal together. It is designed and developed by Liisa Vurma, Jaanus Torp, Thomas Vaht and Bethany Jones. The instructions are simple: register, look for an event or add your own dinner party.
Fruit City is a growing map and network of all the fruit trees in public spaces in London. The project is all about taking advantage of a shared community resource, fruit! There is a growing map and network of all the fruit trees in public spaces in London created by the FruitCity team. Who knew you could pick your own mulberries, figs, apples, pears and more! Fruit City is not just a map of trees but an initiative to wake people up to the nature on their doorstep. To re-engage folks with the wild and goodness around them and to get local community orchards planted.
Vendor Power!: A Guide to Street Vending in New York City addresses these problems by translating the most commonly violated rules into accessible diagrams and multiple languages, including English, Bengali, Chinese, Arabic, and Spanish. The brochure also includes personal stories from vendors, history, fun facts, and policy reform recommendations. Thousands of copies were distributed to street vendors for free so they can understand their rights, avoid fines, and earn an honest living. Managed by the Center for Urban Pedagogy, designed by Candy Chang for The Street Vendor Project.
Lapin Kulta Solar Kitchen Restaurant by Marti Guizè rethinks our perception of the kitchen, of cooking, of food, of drink and all of these in relation to nature. The Lapin Kulta Solar Kitchen Restaurant aims to follow the sun through Europe this summer, visiting a range of cities where it will present this extraordinary culinary concept. An environmental and gastronomic art project, opened during Milan Design Week 2011 in April, as well as a gourmet eatery, the Lapin Kulta Solar Kitchen Restaurant highlights key contemporary themes: a nature-driven process, flexibility and immediacy. Depending on the day’s sunshine, the nature-driven kitchen will be able to serve a solar barbecue, meals prepared at lower temperatures or salads. The restaurant will therefore also test people’s flexibility: if it rains, we have to adapt, reschedule and deal with the nature-dependent delays. Immediacy will be evident in the urgency of movements and decisions, and real-time information: a cloud could change the course of a business lunch!
Roppongi Nouen farm by On Design is an urban farm right in the middle of Roppongi which is the center part of Tokyo.People who visit this place can see the process how vegetables grow and also eat the vegetables at the restaurant right next to this farm. This is a place where agriculture and people become close. Glass houses with inorganic iron frame and glass are arranged sterically on a wooden deck just like the surrounding city scape. A farm transported from the country side into the units. Roppongi Nouen FARM is a farm show case consisted of 8 glass containers. The container is leased to farm producer as a place to send out information by growing vegetables. The project is to activate community through agriculture in an urban city.
In 2009 the group Nomadisch Grün rented a 6000 mq free area in Kreuzberg neighborhood of Berlin (Germany) and transformed it into Prinzessinnengarten, a little ecological and social urban farm. It is a productive place of foodstuff, cultural projects and new friendships, where people gather, work and enjoy.
the Polymobil by Andrea Strauss strives to be the fusion of emotions and traditions, a discussion and inventing machine around food and the attention we pay to it. The re-imagination of an Italian icon as something a little different. The Polymobile was built by pupils of the Polytechnical School Ottensheim under the guidance of artist Andreas Strauss. The project came for pupils at a point in life where food does not play as large a role as the worry about which career path to take. For them, developing and building the Polymobil amounted to an opportunity to reflect on quality of life, entrepreneurship and public intervention.
The Polymobil was successfully heated up the first time at a schoolparty this May in Ottensheim/Austria. Why don’t we think about a trip to experiment the Polymobil around Europe?
Never throw away old stuff. This is Stoortplats van Dromen’s philosophy. With the materials and objects found in the streets or hidden in dark cellars of Isola neighborhood, they built Taverna, where they offer a sit and a glass of wine. New elements, like chairs and lamps, turn up everyday.
Public Suggestion: Taste Taverna’s soup!
