{"id":8956,"date":"2017-12-04T21:55:50","date_gmt":"2017-12-04T21:55:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/honors.syr.edu\/capstone\/?p=8956"},"modified":"2025-11-11T19:56:16","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T19:56:16","slug":"dinner-parti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/honors.syr.edu\/thesis\/2017\/12\/04\/dinner-parti\/","title":{"rendered":"Dinner Parti"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Evangeline Soileau &#8217;17 completed her capstone in architecture titled \u201cDinner Parti\u201d under her advisor, Professor Amber Bartosh<\/p>\n<p>Evangeline was interested in investigating the architectural relationships between events and spatial production via the lens of social dining. The way a space is designed\u2014its materials, structure, and technology, in relation to rapidly changing cultural transformations\u2014affect the functionality of a space. She used four contemporary dining events as project sites for observation, research, and analysis. The dining events she chose to study were picnic, Thanksgiving, solo meal, and exhibition buffet.<\/p>\n<p>She completed this study by hosting four dinner parties of various scope, the fourth dinner being a large-scale event in which the artifacts from the previous three events were showcased, and which identified the social hearth of food in context with the architecture of each event.<\/p>\n<p>Evangeline\u2019s advice for students beginning to think about their capstone:<\/p>\n<p>Start thinking about what you\u2019re intellectually fascinated by within your discipline, and max out your schedule with classes that interest you, or ones that you\u2019re unfamiliar with. You never know what may accidentally inspire you, and every academic experience can be considered a learning one. Meanwhile, start writing, because it\u2019s a way to make these floating, ephemeral, vague \u2018interests\u2019 into something more concrete.<\/p>\n<p>The photo is from Evangeline\u2019s first event, a picnic with some friends in Thornden park.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/honors.syr.edu\/capstone\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/12\/evie.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-8957 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/honors.syr.edu\/capstone\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/12\/evie-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Evangeline Soileau laying out blanks for picnic\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Evangeline Soileau &#8217;17 completed her capstone in architecture titled \u201cDinner Parti\u201d under her advisor, Professor Amber Bartosh Evangeline was interested in investigating the architectural relationships between events and spatial production via the lens of social dining. The way a space is designed\u2014its materials, structure, and technology, in relation to rapidly changing cultural transformations\u2014affect the functionality&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":16720,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-student-projects"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/honors.syr.edu\/thesis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/honors.syr.edu\/thesis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/honors.syr.edu\/thesis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/honors.syr.edu\/thesis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/honors.syr.edu\/thesis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8956"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/honors.syr.edu\/thesis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8956\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16721,"href":"https:\/\/honors.syr.edu\/thesis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8956\/revisions\/16721"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/honors.syr.edu\/thesis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/honors.syr.edu\/thesis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/honors.syr.edu\/thesis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/honors.syr.edu\/thesis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}