No Play with Food

No Play With Food is a multisensory dining experience exploring play as an essential part of human curiosity, creativity, and connection. Inspired by the familiar childhood phrase “don't play with your food” the project questions how social conditioning and self-consciousness gradually distance adults from the instinct to play.

Through a six-course dinner, traditional dining etiquette was disrupted through tactile, interactive, and unexpected encounters. Guests were invited to pop, touch, share, feed one another, eat blindfolded, and engage with food beyond its conventional boundaries.

By transforming the table into a space of exploration, the experience sought to revive a sense of curiosity often left behind in adulthood; reminding participants that play is not only a childhood act.