An evening dinner and convivial gathering exploring what it means to live and eat well, within limits. We propose a shared meal structured as an archipelago of tables, small islands of food, knowledge, and know-how. Drawing from this year's centenary of 'austere playfulness’ thinker Ivan Illich, post-war “wolf-at-the-door” cooking (M.F.K. Fisher and others), permaculture, and AMRO’s own “size of the pot” ethos.
Rather than treating limits as deprivation, we treat them as metabolic intelligence: seasonal ingredients, minimal tools, shared labor, and enoughness as a practice. About food islands and island foods, over food, we ask: What do we refuse to scale? What do we actually need? What makes autonomy possible at table-scale? Instead of talking about autonomy, we’ll cook it.
The evening combines a collaboratively prepared seasonal meal created with local partners, a few short readings, distributed prompt cards, and a tiny self-produced small ‘island recipe’ zine—a portable toolkit for joyful abundance within constraints.
*Islands of Conviviality is a collaborative project investigating how communities can thrive within ecological and social limits through shared practices of care, food, and conviviality, taking place in the Dalmatian islands in 2026 in partnership with the Island School of Social Autonomy (https://issa-school.org/) and many others.
