Redesign your family tableware

Rethink the linkage of our past and current homes via the process of recreating and redesigning a piece of family tableware.

Join our artist-in-residence Doreen Chan for a cozy evening of sharing family memories and playing with air-drying clay or paper to revisit and reshape moments from your dining table.

The family dining table is a place for togetherness where many factors may contribute to the experiences and dynamics. What is the piece of tableware your family of origin used the most? What comes to mind when you hold it in your hands? Does it fit well in your current household? From sharing some details of their own family dining table setting in small groups, each participant will be guided to recreate a tableware from their family of origin, using air-drying clay or paper. Exploring the transformative potential of design, participants will then redesign the tableware based on their current lives. Participants are welcome to take the design with them at the end of the workshop.

All workshop equipment and materials will be provided. Refreshments will also be available.

Please wear or bring clothes that you are comfortable getting messy in.

Biography

Doreen Chan (Hong Kong/USA) is an artist whose practice re-examines the tensions between interpersonal relationships and personal memory. By selecting and reorganising fragments from both her own and others’ everyday lives, she experiments with how individuals interact with personal memories within collective memories. Doreen’s work spans site-specific installations, virtual platforms, and public programmes, and she often collaborates with a diverse range of individuals.