Open Source Restaurant - A DIY-haven of creativity
- Series: Kreativ.Quartier.Ruhr
While blistering my feet hopping from one arty location to the next during Art Rotterdam, I found the excellent refuge for some hot soup and off-time at the Instructables Restaurant. A DIY-haven of creativity.
The Instructables Restaurant is the first open source restaurant in the world. Literally everything present – chairs, lighting, menu – was taken from the website www.instructables.com, a fantastic website on which you can up- as well as download virtually any how-to guide imaginable.
Making a chandelier out of toiletrolls? A cigar box ukelele? Or clothesline hangers for windy conditions? Instructables can tell you all about it. The Instructables Restaurant has only set up shop for a limited amount of two weeks, but here is a fan, hoping for them to take over one of the many döner kebab shop that litter the city centre, and fill it with their fresh energy and great recipes.
ADA
While I was savouring a creamy Pumpkin Soup, I was lucky enough to be in the middle of an ADA (Area for Debate and Art) meeting. I got to choose an object, stalled out on one of the tables in the restaurant and heard about one of the projects they had initiated. The little globe I choose represented something about an exotic garden they had placed in the outskirts of the city during winter. Unfortunately, most of the story was lost in the resounding caused by the big hall. But they had caught my attention and I decided to check out their website, where I read all about this cool project they do by placing two people from different fields at a table and let them debate about a certain subject during supper. You can read all the transcripts here.
Energised and refreshed, it was time for me to get back on my feet once more and go on a young gallery tour around town, only ending when the clubs were closing. Art indeed never sleeps.
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The Instructables Restaurant is the first open source restaurant in the world. Literally everything present – chairs, lighting, menu – was taken from the website www.instructables.com, a fantastic website on which you can up- as well as download virtually any how-to guide imaginable.Making a chandelier out of toiletrolls? A cigar box ukelele? Or clothesline hangers for windy conditions? Instructables can tell you all about it. The Instructables Restaurant has only set up shop for a limited amount of two weeks, but here is a fan, hoping for them to take over one of the many döner kebab shop that litter the city centre, and fill it with their fresh energy and great recipes.
ADA
While I was savouring a creamy Pumpkin Soup, I was lucky enough to be in the middle of an ADA (Area for Debate and Art) meeting. I got to choose an object, stalled out on one of the tables in the restaurant and heard about one of the projects they had initiated. The little globe I choose represented something about an exotic garden they had placed in the outskirts of the city during winter. Unfortunately, most of the story was lost in the resounding caused by the big hall. But they had caught my attention and I decided to check out their website, where I read all about this cool project they do by placing two people from different fields at a table and let them debate about a certain subject during supper. You can read all the transcripts here.
Energised and refreshed, it was time for me to get back on my feet once more and go on a young gallery tour around town, only ending when the clubs were closing. Art indeed never sleeps.
Related videos:
Related blogs:
- RAiR # 3: Guesthouse shows the best of ten years of Artists in Residence
- Art the most important factor
- How about a cup of overload?
- Art Rotterdam: Put on your glasses and open your wallet
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Mon, 14.02.2011
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