This allows you to reflect on how you look like when you eat, why do you eat this way, and perhaps practice different methods for eating. Furthermore, the stations create a setting where you can experience what it is like to eat by yourself. This is another basic skill that we have often overlooked, since we consider eating a social action. However, the function of eating is individual, to sustain ourselves. Thus, the interaction we initiate with others around food does not usually address the actual physical action of eating.
The project was recently presented in the Taste Festival at the DirektorenHaus Berlin. Each of the stations displayed a different type of food, which required participants to eat in very different ways, from the seductive bite of a strawberry to the jaw opening hamburger. The stations are going to be presented throughout June in galleries and special food events that focus on contemporary food culture, and the interaction of food and design. The stations are made of birch wood and include a large mirror and an eating surface. The surface landscape varies as it is made of two replaceable wood tiles (plates), each designed for a different type of food, hence for a different way of eating. The tiles include a plate, coaster, bowl, cake stand, grill and bread board.
