It is no news that nowadays we spend truly too much time on social media, and that means through all the five senses, we mostly use sight. I designed this project with the idea of playing with perception and stimulating senses by using colours, in order to reconnect at both inner and outer levels.

Connection is a project including five different immersive dining experiences, each of them related to a colour and to a main topic. We are constantly online, even more after the pandemic years, but never truly connected with reality, that is the reason why the aim of this project is to take distance from the digital and to reconnect to each theme, using colours and perception.

Each dinner has a monochrome set, which includes the dishes and the food itself. Furthermore, facing various social issues, I designed a different experience for every dinner, in order to stimulate discussion about the topic and to guide the public in the process of reconnection. Food is always used as a tool to switch the perspective and, together with colour, as a medium to play with sensoriality and perception.

The Black connection experience is an encounter with blind or visually impaired people. The topic is to re-connect with the others, with the purpose also to try to understand how they live daily and especially, how they face the eating experience.

The Red dinner addresses the theme of re-connection with the others from the inclusivity point of view. The Pantone Color Institute selected the Viva Magenta, a shade of red, as a colour of the 2023 year to talk about empathy, inclusivity, kindness and sharing with strangers.

The Yellow experience attempts to reconnect with reality. We are bombarded with information and news, most of which are fake, knowing how to recognize them is fundamental. The aim of this dinner is to stimulate creativity and critical thinking in order to be able to distinguish real news from fake ones. The link between yellow and fake news comes from the term “yellow journalism” which refers precisely to tabloid press.

The Green dinner aims to reconnect with nature. Especially after the years of pandemic it becomes a need to find back a balance between city and nature and to restore a deep and regenerating relation with nature. The colour green was commonly associated with the idea of nature since the land artists started to use the Earth itself to raise awareness about the environmental health; moreover it is also been used by the Pantone Color Institute as a symbol of vitality, regeneration and harmony.

The White experience focuses on the topic of social standards. We judge ourselves according to the image of beauty and success we see on socials, even if knowing it doesn’t represent the true. That, today as it was around 1700s, could lead to various inner conflicts, personal issues, or to worse scenarios. The aim of the dinner is to find a moment of introspection and to re-connect to ourselves.