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@ Seattle Design Festival Installation
Friday-Sunday, August 14th-16th, 2026Permanent @Beacon Food Forest
Design: Studio Trip, Pimchid Chariyacharoen, Caitlin Truong
Vermiconposting Consultant: She Worms Composting
At What the Soil Remembers, people and 3,000 composting worms share a table.
The installation asks what happens after a meal ends, and explores how architecture might make these often invisible processes visible. Diners leave their scraps in a composting pipe, where worms turn them into nutrients for the herbs growing down the center of the table. A rain chain carries water from the canopy to the planting bed. The herbs return to the table as part of another meal.
At the 2026 Seattle Design Festival in Lake Union Park, children and adults gathered around it and followed the journey from food scraps to fresh herbs. After the festival, the design team and community members rebuilt the table at Beacon Food Forest. There, neighbors can gather around it to harvest herbs, share a meal, and feed the soil that will sustain the next planting.
The installation is reassembled at Beacon Food Forest with community participation, turning reconstruction into a process of social engagement and collective care.
and reassembled without waste. When the structure eventually ends its life, its materials return to the same cycle they were built to sustain.