SANTAP is Brisbane’s Food Theatre which is designed to fulfill society’s one of basic needs, food. The building will demonstrate how humanity can restore their pre-COVID19 lifestyle in the new social condition through democracy based on consent. Consensus Democracy in particular is being applied in the process of designing the program for the building and its surrounding landscape.
The program concept is deferred from people’s usual action in performing democracy and resulting in the creation of a social ecosystem that would be categorized into three programs,
to take, to give, and to share.
It’s a food theatre, so people would eat here, and thus the program to take. In the 'to give' program, local business owners of food industry and groceries can start up their shop in the theatre and given space to develop their network and they can also give back to the people in dire need of nutritional food like runaway and homeless. In ‘to share‘ program, sharing knowledge and experience through food battles and cooking performance from famous chefs will be available for all to access in the Food Theatre.
