A series of 3 installations/sets designed to evoke a domestic environment in which food is the centerpiece that drives people lingering at the table—a sobremesa—where conversations about design and architecture can take place with less formality and including diverse, and often overlooked, perspectives.

A key principle for this proposal is to trigger conversations through a collective experience and acts of sharing. It is through dialogues that we create links and ways of coming together, where we can find a common ground. In the New Yorker article “What Conversation Can Do for Us,” Hua Hsu writes, “The power comes from the realization that these conversations can happen only once: they are improvised and ephemeral, and can never happen again in the same way. You may forget what was discussed, but you will remember the exhilarating experience of the discussion itself.” In normative exhibition contexts, interactions among guests rarely takes place. In reaction to that, our proposal is on its own a set of installations where to sit, reflect and share experiences and impressions to one another. In the context of the numerous contemporary crises we’re facing, we believe that it is through conversations that we can find new ways to be challenged and contested to find alternatives within and outside the scope of design and spatial practices.