Exhibited at Milan Design Week, as part of 'Sit, Feast on Your Life' at DOPO? Space. Tableware made by 50 international creatives was set out on a 10-metre-long fir table. Visitors were encouraged to use the tableware while watching a series of live events, including a talk with Jon Marshall, partner of Pentagram; Gabriel Roland, director of Vienna Design Week; and Oli Stratford, editor-in-chief of Disegno. The talk was chaired by Janice Li, curator at Wellcome Collection.

My contribution was 13 dessert plates, featuring 13 images which two Stanford scientists drunkenly transmitted into outer space in 1983, showing the evolution of life on Earth. This strange set of tableware is both an invitation – perhaps for aliens to join for tea – and a celebration of a drunken moment of friendship.

A few months ago, forty years after the images were originally transmitted into space, scientists in Japan have deployed a 210-foot-wide antenna dish in the hopes of finally receiving a reply.

https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/37459