I think that culture can effect design because the culture of the people using the space can effect the way the space is used and what it is used for, which will in turn effect the design of the space. For example, in Babette’s feast the two sisters grew up and have always lived in a small isolated village with their father who was the pastor of their small Protestant church. The two sisters are very loyal to their religion and even though they are given opportunities to leave they choose to be loyal to their father and their religion and stay in the village. Then when Babette moves in with them she decides to cook a feast for their celebration in their father’s memory. The sisters however start to get nervous about what Babette will cook because she is a Catholic foreigner and so they ask for God to help them to get through the meal. Over all of the years that the sisters ate in the dining room with their father the space never changed. There were no candles, no tablecloth, or any other type of decoration on the table and the dishes that were used were very plain. However, when Babette prepared her magnificent feast she put out a tablecloth that she then ironed to make it look perfect. Then she put out candelabras with really tall candles that started burning above the people seated at the tables’ heads and slowly melted down. The taller candles helped to illuminate the table alone and make all of the space outside of the tabletop shrink into the shadows. So I think that the culture of the people who will be using the space effects how it is used. When the conservative Protestants were using it they kept the area very simple with no decorations whereas when Babette decorated for her feast she put out decorations that would accentuate the space on the tabletop for the feast.
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| Babette's Feast |
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