About Us
For two nights only, September 18 & 19, the Field Collective is taking over one of downtown Vancouver's most remarkable spaces for an immersive dinner exploring food, art, architecture, and time. As part of the Vancouver Design Festival, the Field Collective is working in collaboration with immersive art exhibitions by the Ooblek Collective, paired with a curated custom menu by Chef Kade Philips of Pantalons, and drinks served by Simon Says Drink. The ambiance of the evening is provided by Nolan Talbot Kelly on lighting design and Phil Austrom and Christopher Goodchild on the evening’s soundtrack. Together, we are working to bring an ephemeral experience of time, creating a multisensory journey through the past, present, and future. Each of our collaborators brings a unique approach, connected by our drive to cultivate immersive experiences that make abstract ideas tangible.
Founded in 2023, The Field Collective is dedicated to supporting, celebrating and promoting small architecture practices across British Columbia. Its mission is to showcase the talent and passion of small firms while energizing the local design scene with fresh and innovative ideas.
We are artists who believe the table is a stage, the chair a sculpture, and the drink in your hand a performance.
Oobleck Collective produces immersive experiences that dissolve the boundary between art and life — where the tableware is as one-of-a-kind as the food, a piece of furniture carries a memory you wrap around your body, your ahi is pressed in your favourite story, and a bartender translates a feeling into a vessel and calls it a cocktail.
Our dinners are not events — they are environments, built from the ground up by a core group of artists and collaborators. We believe that the most meaningful hospitality is the kind that makes you feel something you didn't expect — that the meal you remember isn't always the one you tasted, but the one that sets you free to wander between past, present and future."
Pantalons is a Vancouver-based dining project exploring food, place, and the people around the table. Each gathering is an opportunity to step outside the traditional restaurant setting and enjoy a thoughtful dining experience.
For this particular event, Pantalons invites guests for a two-night dinner event that is inspired by the ideas of what we have, what we lose, and what remains. Through a series of dishes, the meal explores how cooking carries the past, reflects the present, and shapes what comes next. A reminder that cooking is a living, breathing practice, constantly evolving while remaining rooted in where we come from.
Simon says drink is a Sommelier, wine consultant and educator that focuses on not only the origin and the quality of wines but the stories behind them.
As this collaborative experience has brought together artists from many different pockets of this province, I'd like to do the same with the wines. The menu will feature wines from around British Columbia that not only complement Kade's gastronomic creations but that all tie into the lens of "Time" that we'll be looking through throughout this experience."
Nolan Talbot-Kelly (b. 1995) is a designer living and working in Vancouver, BC. He holds a Bachelor of Design from Emily Carr University of Art + Design.
Drawing influence from the built environment—brackets, fasteners, supports, and infrastructural details— Talbot-Kelly creates furniture, lighting, and sculptural pieces rooted in craftsmanship and conceptual inquiry. His design language blurs the boundary between utility and aesthetic by appropriating mass-produced materials in ways that transcend their commercial utility.
Talbot-Kelly embraces constraint as both a conceptual and practical framework. His prioritization of sustainability through reuse has led to a design process that embraces limitation - material, technical, or circumstantial constraints result in pragmatic, ad hoc solutions born from working with what is at hand. These lines of inquiry culminate into one-off works poised between function and sculpture, limited series and scalable designs developed for production.
Phil Austrom and Christopher Goodchild met as students whilst attending UBC, forming a fast friendship over their love of music. Phil is a prolific producer, DJ, and trumpeter, releasing music on a variety of local and global dance music labels, as well as running his own imprint, Howitzer Records. Chris is a trained audio engineer, session guitarist, and guitar teacher who also writes and produces his own indie folk music. Together, they blend electronic music with live trumpet and guitar to create fun and engaging performances from city dance floors to backwoods forest raves.