Dal tavolo alla città (e ritorno)

Abstract

Restaurants transform themselves over time and at the same time they transform their relationship with the city, the practices of food consumption, and convivial rituals of everyday life. We will investigate these phenomena starting from the table, a key element of any restaurant activity. The table has to be considered here as a "political" device, an instrument for the prefiguration and shaping of convivial relations. Our exploration will start from the zero degree of the restaurant, in its most traditional manifestation, and then will be extended to the different forms of food consumption that we can experience today in our cities.