As part of Low Carbon Chinatown, the Supper Club brings the experience indoor into neighbourhoods and institutions and engage large groups of audience on the impact of our food system on the environment.
It takes the form of a Supper Club where the audience enjoy a low carbon sit down meal prepared by a collaborating chef, while engaging with issues surrounding climate change through an interactive, educative and performative experience.
Audiences are first invited to move around and choose different seats based on their answers to a series of questions concerning their individual opinions and perspectives on the climate crisis. As they shuffle around their seating positions, they interact with each other, share their views, and at times, negotiate with each other about their seating positions as they discuss the nuances in their opinions. A live camera feed provides an overview representation of everyone’s collective opinion about different topics. Once seated, audiences are presented with the data science behind each low carbon dish in an interactive mini workshop session that prompts them to examine their understanding of carbon footprints in food, before being served with the dish while watching the making of it on a projected screen.
Each sit down meal features delicious low carbon Asian Chinese dishes that were chosen and developed by groups of East and South East Asian participants in Low Carbon Chinatown, alongside data scientists and acclaimed food writers and chefs such as MiMi Aye, Uyen Luu, Shu Han Lee and Neil Eakapong.
The experience is designed to encourage audience to discuss and learn about the data science of climate change through Asian Chinese food culture and cooking. The recipes of the dishes including its data science are shared online, and audience are encouraged to take action to tackle the climate crisis through making the dishes themselves at home.
Previously hosted at:
The Wilds Ecology Centre, funded by Barking Riverside
Manchester Museum, funded by University of Manchester and Manchester Museum
