Global Design New York University: Dining at the World's Table...

Thursday, August 16, 2012

Dining at the World's Table...

... Made possible by participating design studio atmos!

"Global Feast is a 20-date banquet that brings together an array of the nation’s most celebrated supper-clubs and underground chefs to prepare global cuisine served on a giant table in the shape of the world."

"The centre-piece of the evening was the remarkable dining-table, a huge sculptural art installation created by award-winning design studio atmos. Guests sit on a single 80-seater bench snaking around the contours of the five continents dining off coastlines and illuminated by cities."

Full article and image source, by Stefan Simanowitz

Watch for Global Feast coming to Store Street in London!

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MISSION

Global warming effects pose new challenges to the architecture, landscape architecture, and urban design communities. The immediate response has been a turn toward a host of energy-saving technologies. What has rarely been addressed, however, is the problem of scale. How can the designer make sure that global solutions do not come at the expense of local traditions, cultures, and environments? By placing human rational, emotional, technological, and social needs at the center of our environmental concerns, we propose a new GLOBAL [Global Local Open Border Architecture and Landscape] design initiative.

We seek a Global yet still Local design that can Open the sociopolitical Borders that all too often separate Architecture from its Landscape. The overreaching aim is to develop a language of design that can create proximity between individual responsibility and the current global environmental crisis. We see environmental problems as a crisis of human alienation from the natural world, and our initiative will explore ways in which design can reformat the unfortunate separation. In our plea for proximity between the individual and the global we will explore, in the words of Maurice Merleau-Ponty, a design that is "as close to the beyond as to things near" when we evoke "our power to imagine ourselves elsewhere."