Your Seat at the Table
Co-designed by Ailbhe Cunningham, Ample Space & Leo Keller, grundfunkel
A creative, participatory workshop and exhibition that invites you to share everyday life experiences from your home. You choose the story. We supply the table.
Exhibition:
Thursday 17th September - Sunday 27th September
Workshop:
12:00 - 14:00, Saturday 19th September
Artist Talk:
14:00 - 15:00, Sunday 27th September
Although serving different contexts, both a host’s table runner and a craftsperson’s tool roll are devices of organisation and care: one brings order and atmosphere to a shared table, while the other securely stores and carries the tools of everyday making.
Your Seat at the Table combines these two objects into a fabric-based design object. Interfacing between the public workshop and the private experience of home, the dressed table establishes a space of care and hospitality where residents' living experiences can be shared, documented and valued.
Your Seat at the Table consists of a creative, participatory workshop and interactive exhibition. Architectural representations often fail to capture the messiness of everyday experiences in our homes and the impacts that buildings have on our lives.
Your Seat at the Table aims to collectively share our everyday experiences of inhabiting our homes and neighbourhoods.
Your story could be about barriers to having a safe or secure home, or about things that you hold dear and long to hold onto. We will make visible the conditions that we need to turn a house into a comfortable and safe home.
We recognise that people communicate, learn and share experiences in diverse ways. The project offers multiple modes of participation - creative, sensory and conversational forms of engagement. You are invited to join us - to sit around the table and tell your story in a way that feels right for you. Use your voice, your hands, your ears, your heart. All forms of storytelling are welcome!
Workshop materials and tools will be provided.
Supported by *
Your Seat at the Table is part of a wider research project funded by Research Ireland, in conjunction with TU Dublin (academic partner) and the RIAI (enterprise partner).
Project credits
Your Seat at the Table is a collaborative project between Irish architect Ailbhe Cunningham of Ample Space and German tailor Leo Keller of grundfunkel.
Ailbhe Cunningham is an architect MRIAI and researcher engaged in transdisciplinary, participatory and creative design, evaluation & knowledge exchange. She is a founding director of Ample Space, a collaborative research & design practice in Cork city.
Leo Keller is a tailor, bagmaker and fashion designer with a focus on one-of-a-kind pieces. They develop, construct, sew and repair all things textile - keeping favorite pieces alive or giving a second life to pre-used materials and setting those into a new and sometimes unexpected context.
Co-designed by Ailbhe Cunningham, Ample Space & Leo Keller, grundfunkel with support from Kevin Donovan & Paddy Dolan, TUDublin.