Restaurant of the Future

Have you ever thought about what a restaurant or kitchen may look like 20 or 30 years from now? Will there be interactive smart menus for your use throughout the space? Will the menus be filtered and user-defined to take into account your personal food allergies, tastes, and dietary restrictions? How will the food be prepared? By robot-chefs or food printers cooking up your favorite delights?

In this studio, we will imagine what the Restaurant of the Future may look like and design and build various devices, software, tools or gadgets that may be part of this future reality. Some items we will explore: iPad menus, RFID, robot chef, robot waitstaff, conveyer belt, augmented reality, Kinect, 3d food printing, telepresence, virtual spaces, “the usual” face/people identification, and voice recognition.

Sean Stevens

Alternative Energy Artist, Scientist

Since Sean was six years old, he has always taken things apart to see how they worked. This innate curiosity about how things work lead him to explore computer programming, human perception, robotics, alternative energy, Sound, lighting, LASERs, Interactivity, the internet, and how it can all tie into community. He discovered that most complex systems can be considered to be made of modules. With the right input and output, these modules can be made to act independently.
Recombined in new ways, the modules can create new and interesting things. Working with systems in this way allows us to create faster, since we don’t necessarily have to understand the modules on every level to use them. Sean is currently working on lowRes, a primarily human powered, large scale, mobile, modular, interactive art piece. With lowRes, Sean hopes to create something that is enjoyable, but when you think about it really makes a statement.

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Sean Stevens
Sustainable Sound