LIVE DINING by Nicole McDonald-Fournier

August backyard live dining 2009, with Jean-François Prost, Frank Nobert and Nicole Fournier. Also featuring backyard live dining furniture

August backyard live dining 2009, with Jean-François Prost, Nicole Fournier and Frank Nobert (seen in that order in pict below). Also featuring backyard live dining furniture from august going back from July. So the order of the images are present to past.

photo by Wes Fournier-Bourgeois
image of root to the left: from live dining chair 2009 - big root going to the sky, above the whole live dining furniture installation. This root seems to be the symbol of backyard live dining 2009

photo by Wes Fournier-Bourgeois
image of root of live dining chair 2009, with Jean-François Prost underneath, smelling evening primrose leaf or a bean or bee balm leaf (i cant quite remember)

photo by Wes Fournier-Bourgeois

photo by Nicole Fournier

photo by Nicole Fournier
live dining chair 2009 with big root going to the sky, above the whole live dining furniture installation. This root seems to be the symbol of backyard live dining 2009

photo by Nicole Fournier

photo by Nicole Fournier
close up of live dining table from 2008, transformed by overwintering, with branches with roots, attached with wire for structure for beans to grow on.

photo by Nicole Fournier
in foreground: live dining chair found by Massimo Zanasi from Sardinia Italy, in Montreal in 2008, transformed by squirrels as they used part of it for their nest, decomposition aided by overwintering 2008-2009. branches with roots attached, aiming at the sky, connected with wire to back of seat, by Nicole Fournier. In background: live dining table from 2008, transformed by overwintering, with branches with roots, attached with wire for structure for beans to grow on.

photo by Nicole Fournier

photo by Nicole Fournier
live dining furniture - the chair that Xavier Michaud-Beaulieu found, for live dining chair with corn growing as seat

photo by Nicole Fournier

Live DINING in City Farmer News

http://www.cityfarmer.info/live-dining-by-nicole-fournier/

INDUSTRIAL PARK LIVE DINING 2008-2009

see link here to Industrial Park Live Dining blog

May 15th 2009 - landscaping, construction, installation of "dining" areas, planting, by employees and Nicole Fournier

Industrial Park Live Dining evolved into the realization of "Heritage Park" (named by the employees) - the adaptation of the Live Dining concept by 40 employees of a company in an Industrial Park. Table and chairs were created by employees using recycled materials, and as well as ready made furniture was used for the project.

November 2008

November 2008 - Guy Quinn (urban wildlife specialist) and Rob Baker (mammal specialist - Tracker) and Nicole Fournier (the one taking pictures), on the Industrial Park Live Dining site, observing mammal wildlife next to the company. Rob Baker finds evidence of vole (field mice) on site, in the wild area of the site. The vole are main food supply for the fox that Rob Baker began tracking in the winter (video of this in the making....)

The observation of wildlife mammal activity is part of the Industrial Park LIve Dining Project of verifying that there was wildlife in the industrial park, as part of the ecosystem within which the polyculture space was being designed and created, by employees and Nicole Fournier. The site of Heritage Park (Industrial Park LIve Dining) includes wild space, a small forest and the co-created, designed space by the employees based on the Live Dining concept.