Over the last month the Design for Dining team has been working through a series of iterations to create a dining environment that operates at many scales and capitalizes on a unique space within The Merchant restaurant. Our design concept both engages with the neighborhood and restaurant at large while also redefining the dining experience at a table for six. We are now refining the details of how the table and its armature will be constructed and collaborating with different parties to select the final components of the vignette. Stay tuned for the launch of the Design for Dining program and full unveiling of our design beginning of June. Here’s a sneak peak at our process:
Communal Dining
Three Realms of Engagement
Design for Dining Flexibility
Framing the Restaurant
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Design Museum Boston on Design for Dining
The 2025 OpenLAB Boston studio work will be exhibited at Virginia Tech Monday, March 2nd through Wednesday, March 4th.
Please join us for the following events on Monday, March 2nd:
11:00am - Lecture with Parke MacDowell
1:00pm Lobby talk with Kevin Sullivan
This year’s studio identifies seven sites along the frayed edges of Boston’s Greenway. The Greenway is a one-mile-long linear park running through the heart of the city, reconnecting downtown Boston with its waterfront. Many of the parcels along its edges remain undeveloped and present mute, blank facades to the public realm. Addressing and repairing these edges through acts of infilling, layering, grafting, framing, and placemaking is the core focus of the studio—SUTURE.