Supper waiting club

Abstract

A design research project that investigates the potential of waiting processes and provides a proposal for a regenerative, caring design practice. The aim of the work was to stimulate an examination of waiting, with the claim of being able to draw added value from it. With the help of a visualisation through fermentation, a strictly anthropocentric understanding of time should be broken up. How can handing over the control and passivity of the ego during waiting be understood not as an excessive demand and lack of individual expression, but as a potential and source of creative processes? In my 'Supper Waiting Club', a performative tasting event, I invited guests to wait together with me, to exchange about different concepts and perceptions of waiting. Divided into a waiting room and a tasting room, the evening visually, auditorily, and gustatorily conveyed my concept of caring waiting.