What is Place/Setting?
Place/Setting is a social art installation, designed to host an intimate dinner conversation that is made semi-transparent to help a larger understand how ideas are shared within and amongst individuals, organizations, and experts in various contexts.
Place/Setting @HUBweek
The first iteration of the project took place over four days at Boston's HUBweek, on Boston City Hall Plaza. The installation housed four public meals with guests from a mix of grassroots and legacy institutions with themes revolving around the growing disparity in income in greater Boston, and the arenas in which this is being addressed: urban agriculture, civic engagement and design, cooperative economic models, and housing, communities, and media
four arrangements, four dynamic conversations
Our hope is that the familiar ritual of a meal in an unfamiliar environent sets the stage for new and open dialogue.
How do you have an intimate dinner on a public plaza?
How does a ten person conversation reach a broader audience?
Place/Setting is an experiment in answering these questions. Place/Setting is not a symposium, it’s not a board meeting, nor is it a private party. Place/Setting is a social art installation, designed to host intimate conversations over shared meals, made semi-transparent to help the public understand how ideas are shared within and amongst organizations and experts in the city.
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