Merry commensality from all at The Decorators. Fig 1. Commensality, from everyday food to feast, Susanne Kerner, Cynthia Chou and Morten Warmind, 2015 Embodied Commensality 1. in utero 2. ritual pre-lacteal feeds 3. breastfeeding/breastmilk substitutes 4. shared breastfeeding/premasticated food Encultured Commensality 5. sharing food with siblings and other household members 6. sharing food with community members 7. feasts and political commensality 8. sharing food with strangers/food aid #thedecorators #itschristmas (at The Decorators)
'the shabbier the collected chamber, the better the democracy', Carne Ross
On Monday 12th December 2016 at 4:08 PM, we received an email from Judith Wielander inviting us to design a temporary parliament for the 2017 Visible Award. Visible is an award appointed through an open jury consultation. Conceived as an assembly, this year's jury session required a spatial configuration that would facilitate a democratic decision making process. In order to design a parliament, however, you first have to decide what kind of parliament you want it to be.
For the design of this year's Visible Parliament, taking place at the Queens Museum in New York, we have questioned the spatial typologies that have dominated parliament chambers from Athenian times to the present day. The worldwide social movements that have emerged in the last decade remind us that it is in the public assembly that space for direct democracy can be created, by making use of what is already in place and most accessible. To address this design-democracy paradox on 02 December 2017 we invited the Visible Award jury to assemble, from an inventory of the museum’s furniture, a temporary space to gather, listen and debate.
