The project is centred on UK food production, consumption, and waste systems, with a focus on alternative materials and translations between physical and digital media. Initial designs researched the complex food chains that feed cities in the Global North, centring on Clapham’s Venn Street Market as a test site for the possibilities of recycled product design.

An unconventional material palette was proposed, bridging traditional building materials and foodstuff – an architecture of chocolate, milk, vegetables, plastic, cardboard, and wood. These materials found form in a hybrid assembly: a storytelling dining table capable of blurring scales and material conditions, morphing between the real and the virtual, the fictional and the informational.

This digitally manufactured piece was optimised for robotic-controlled filming, with objects of consumption overlaid through camera matching. The final film borrows narrative elements from Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland, re-purposed to tell the story of food, consumption, and waste. It features a ‘Temple of Food and Waste’, a surreal communal dining hall and a sobering wake-up call to the side effects of our contemporary of gluttony.