FESTA announces partnership with New Zealand Institute of Architects Canterbury branch
Render of Joy in Sharing, a FESTA installation concept from one of the New Zealand Institute of Architects’ cross-practice teams.
The other cross-practice team has created this concept, Sounds Like Dinner, which will explore the future of food and creating recipes with a binary code.
The Festival of Transitional Architecture (FESTA) returns to Christchurch this Labour weekend, now in collaboration with the NZIA Canterbury branch.
FESTA organisers have recently announced that this year’s event will be presented in partnership with the Canterbury branch of the New Zealand Institute of Architects. The branch’s members will form two cross-practice teams to create large-scale installations for the headline event, named FEASTA! this year. FEASTA! looks to explore connections between food and the city. Over 100 design and architecture students from across Australasia will also be participating in the headline event this year.
Canterbury branch chair of the New Zealand Institute of Architects Mike Callaghan says, “[We] are proud to be collaborating with FESTA this year in supporting installations by local graduates and architects. The success of FESTA lies with their showcasing and celebrating the diverse role of architecture within our ever-changing cityscape and engaging with our communities. It has become a key event in the Christchurch calendar. The headline event, FEASTA! is a great opportunity for NZIA members to form inter-practice design teams, fostering new collaborations and developing designs that can have a positive impact on the success of the festival.”
The concepts from the two NZIA teams are Joy in Sharing – an exploration of public feasting – and Sounds Like Dinner, which focuses on the future of food. The team behind the latter says, “Sounds Like Dinner is about dining out on your imagination; an unorthodox leap in exploring our sensory indulgencies of twenty-third century food. We will be dining on a global menu, where recipes are created as a binary code of 0 and 1s rather than ingredients in teaspoons or grams. Bytes rather than bites!”
FESTA’s wider programme runs over the course of Labour weekend from 19 to 22 October and further expands on the theme of food and architecture. The weekend will include workshops, talks, performances and more. Event organisers say, “Some of the highlights include Freerange Press’ symposium hosted by Simon Wilson, featuring a variety of voices working in the foodscape; an outdoor film screening put on by The Community Gardens and Food Resilience Network with food from their gardens; a food foraging tour; and a Friday night disco of funk and food.”
See the latest information and learn how to get involved at festa.org.nz.
