TED Talk with Michael Hebb, on Table Making.
"Table Making, a working definition: the evocative, powerful, meaningful, or progressive use of the common table. Any action that reinvigorates the common table, ie any actions inspiring people to eat together." — Michael Hebb, TED Talk
Read also an interview with Hebb and GOOD about tables, gathering, and local food.
C-Lab and Jeffrey Inaba are also collaborating with Hebb to construct a variety of large tables, unique to each event and location.
"We're calling the 30 Project table, 'Tablecloth.' The surface is really thin. It's made out of the planks from shipping pallets, woven together with scrap nylon rope, and so it can be rolled out onto trestles and used for an event and then rolled back up and stored really easily."
"We've designed the trestles so they can stack, too, so the idea is that the 30 Project can use the table for this launch dinner at Hayes Valley Farm on Sunday, and then the farm can continue using it for classroom visits and workshops and other community meals, but it won't take up valuable space to store."
Also see One Pot, Experiments in Table Making