HARM TO TABLE

Matthew Mazzotta·United States, United States

2016Concepts - Plus · Architecture +Climate ChangeCommercial

Year: 2016
Category: Concepts - Plus · Architecture +Climate Change
Type: Commercial
Status: Built
Firm: Matthew Mazzotta
Location: United States, United States

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TABLE is a table that travels the country to serve food made of plants and natural resources of that local area that will be in major decline or extinct over the next 20-40 years due to the changing climate. The project focuses on directly translating the research of the world’s top climate scientists into an experience where you can actually eat the results of their work. Working with over 20 national climate scientists, and dozens of local climate scientist and chefs across the US, to design and produce the food items served at

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TABLE, each location specific menu changes its diverse offerings as ecological systems are increasingly disturbed. Now is the perfect time to experience a unique phenomenon of our times by sitting down to a meal in the natural settings from where these ingredients will soon be no more. With each event

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TABLE travels and unfolds to serve hundreds of people by providing seating, a unique self-serve gravity-fed food system, and two elevated seats for musicians to contribute to this dining atmosphere. *The title

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TABLE is a play on the term 'Farm to Table' - a social movement which promotes serving local food through direct acquisition from local farmers.

Collaborators

Matthew Mazzotta

lead

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