I know not what cafe

I know not what cafe is an experimental cafe created for deTour 2021 Design Festival in response to the theme of 'Use(fu)less'. These days we are so used to evaluating design based on functionality. To encourage the audience to rethink design, Edited and 430 collaborated on a cafe that deliberately challenges the usual norms and practices. As a cafe, experiment and performance, the audience participate in this work by buying and enjoying a coffee, just as they usually do in a normal cafe.

Constructed from materials that are commonplace but mostly overlooked, I know not what cafe offers a counterintuitive user experience via elements such as a doorway for an open space and a metal sculpture that doubles ambiguously as a table/chair. Normally in a cafe, coffee is the star of the show and design plays a supporting role. Here, roles are reversed and design is brought to the foreground with the goal of revealing how design shapes our experience and worldview.

唔知咩咖啡店
 
「唔知咩咖啡店」為應deTour設計展「有（冇）用」而設的實驗性咖啡店。現時，我們習慣以便利性評價一件設計，Edited與430則共同設計了一間刻意違反慣常使用習慣的咖啡店，以不方便的設計觸發觀眾對設計的思考。這是一間咖啡店、一次實驗、一次表演。觀眾通過購買並享用咖啡來參與這件作品，就像他們平時去咖啡店一樣。
 
咖啡店以常見的，卻容易被忽略的建築物料建構而成。放置於開放空間的門，以及用法模糊的桌／椅金屬雕塑則創造了違反直覺的使用體驗。平常咖啡店中，設計只是輔助，咖啡才是主角；這間咖啡店嘗試將設計從背景中帶到前景，令人注意到設計如何塑造我們的經驗以至世界觀。

I know not what cafe

I know not what cafe is an experimental cafe created for deTour 2021 Design Festival in response to the theme of 'Use(fu)less'. These days we are so used to evaluating design based on functionality. To encourage the audience to rethink design, Edited and 430 collaborated on a cafe that deliberately challenges the usual norms and practices. As a cafe, experiment and performance, the audience participate in this work by buying and enjoying a coffee, just as they usually do in a normal cafe.

Constructed from materials that are commonplace but mostly overlooked, I know not what cafe offers a counterintuitive user experience via elements such as a doorway for an open space and a metal sculpture that doubles ambiguously as a table/chair. Normally in a cafe, coffee is the star of the show and design plays a supporting role. Here, roles are reversed and design is brought to the foreground with the goal of revealing how design shapes our experience and worldview.