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COOK8: the new dining place
international design competition / exhibition / publication
by DOMÉS International Review of Architecture

1st Honorable Mention
team: Andreas Anagnostopoulos, Marina Mersiadou, Giorgos Mihailidis
2017-2018


Social media are platforms where you can experience almost everything but in its trial versions. You can travel, go sightseeing, talk, eat, play, sex, terrorize. Internet limits seem to expand, while at the same time, borders arise in public space, visible and invisible, tall shrubs, opaque facades, face control, capital control, club members only, reservations only. What if public space becomes free to experience. What if the procedure of dining becomes an urban spectacle, an urban performance. Programmatic components of the dinning procedure are organized into strips. Strips are infrastructural platforms, or theatrical sets, for a series of events. The succession of these events is a theatrical performance for the city. 
4 acts:1. get yourself comfortable, take off your shoes, wash your hands/feet, use the loo, don’t forget to change into your white costume. The city starts to observe you.2. lift the table and bench while food is getting ready, help with the salad? you can find cutlery and napkins by the table.3. you can now enjoy your meal while being a spectacle for the city. pour

some wine into your glass using the integrated wine refill system.4. when finished, you can find toothpicks where you found everything else, you can also make coffee, leave.




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