Your Seat at the Table Workshop

A creative, participatory workshop that invites you to share everyday life experiences from your home. You choose the story. Although serving different contexts, both a host’s table runner and a craftsperson’s tool roll are devices of organisation and care: one brings order and atmosphere to a shared table, while the other securely stores and carries the tools of everyday making. Your Seat at the Table combines these two objects into a fabric-based design object. Interfacing between the public workshop and the private experience of home, the dressed table establishes a space of care and hospitality where residents' living experiences can be shared, documented and valued. Your Seat at the Table consists of a creative, participatory workshop and interactive exhibition. Architectural representations often fail to capture the messiness of everyday experiences in our homes and the impacts that buildings have on our lives. Your Seat at the Table aims to collectively share our everyday experiences of inhabiting our homes and neighbourhoods. Your story could be about barriers to having a safe or secure home, or about things that you hold dear and long to hold onto. We will make visible the conditions that we need to turn a house into a comfortable and safe home. We recognise that people communicate, learn and share experiences in diverse ways. The project offers multiple modes of participation - creative, sensory and conversational forms of engagement. You are invited to join us - to sit around the table and tell your story in a way that feels right for you. Use your voice, your hands, your ears, your heart. All forms of storytelling are welcome! Workshop materials and tools will be provided.