Inspired by the ‘Dinner in the Iguanodon Model’ (1853) media dinning event, initiated by Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins at Crystal Palace. Hawkins set up the famous “Dinner in the Iguanodon” on New Year’s Eve 1853 inviting 21 leading academics to sit inside one of his dinosaur sculptures to dine and debate. In 2022 foreign investment reconfigures the concept to interrogate the morality of genetics with invited guests inside ‘a giant pigs heart’ and audiences to peer into the debate at the dinning table.
