Entangled Meal

Clay harvesting and processing, woodworking, vermicompost, growing from seed, soil, worms, seeds, water, sunlight, love. Garden maintained by other students in the class. Truly a collaborative project.

2025

In Sara Black’s Knowledge Lab: Entanglements course, we investigated the entanglements between humans and the natural world, working collaboratively to design and fabricate furniture, tableware, and a site for a meal to take place. Every aspect of the design considers the non-human organisms that also inhabit the space. We built a table from reclaimed wood, a wattle fence with willow branches, and we planted a garden that would continue to flourish and feed the community through the growing season. We harvested and processed clay at Oxbow, which we used to make the vessels we ate from. We foraged for food in Forest Park, grew mushrooms, and prepared our meal together. Built into the structure of the table are two bins for vermicompost.