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Knife Making and Preservation

Hotel Hotel Projects, Workshop

This day-long workshop that celebrated seasonal produce and our kitchen tools. Monster kitchen and bar head chef, Dan Flatt, will taught three preserving techniques – salting, pickling and preserving. Then expert knife sharpener, Cheng Fei, taught the basics of knife sharpening using specially sourced mountain stones used by Samurai warriors for hundreds of years. Yes, really. Participants brought their own knives for sharpening. In between slicing and dicing, metal-smith practice, Rowsaan, lead a knife appreciation session where participants learn how blades are made through the process of lamination and filing.

Fix and Make

You can buy thousands of units of something from somewhere in the world. This is necessary to an extent for today’s populations. But still, we are anxious. Who made those thousand units? Did we really need to order that many? And what do these things even mean to us when we don’t really know anything about them? Fix and Make is a series of workshops and talks that explores these anxieties. Through the practical, the experimental and the philosophical the program brought different people together to actively questions our relationship with and consumption of objects. Fix and Make invited individuals to reconnect with their hands. It encouraged new learning through doing. Through the process of fixing and making we reckon we can gain a better understanding of how things work and apply this knowledge to other areas of life: to solve our own problems; to take control of our own resources; to break our dependence on manufacturers who create products with built-in obsolescence. The annual program,running throughout 2016, brought together more than 60 collaborators to lead workshops and contribute to discussions from fields as diverse as neuroscience, art, design and craft, food, education, music, psychology and the environment.

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