La Casita Madrigal : Show & Restaurant
As I’ve grown as a designer, I try to find opportunities where I can intertwine my interests, which is what I hope to accomplish with this project. As a themed entertainer I want to create an immersive space that people can get lost in, as an art director and set designer I want to create a space where people can perform and reach their audience and as a stage manager, I want to create a space that can work in harmony all the elements, techniques, and abilities I have learned in this college. For my last design project at SCAD, I proposed the creation of a Restaurant that includes a show based of the Disney Movie Encanto. Where families, and people of any age can come and not only have an amazing meal but a show to go with it as well. This Restaurant would be located in Walt Disney World’s Disney Springs in Orlando, Florida where audiences are free to go without the need of a park ticket. You would have to pay a set fee for the event that would cover your place at the table and your food.
I was born in Latin America, most specifically Uruguay, and even though Encanto represents more Colombian Culture than mine I can still connect with the way the family interacts with each other. Like the Madrigal Family I have a big family and we are all very different and showcase different aspects of each other. Watching this movie, I felt connected to the way Mirabel felt and grew up. When I was little my family moved from Uruguay to Puerto Rico, by that point all my siblings had grown up in Uruguay, I was just beginning to understand the world, so I barely had any time to understand my culture. As I grew up away from my family and became my own person, my family never really got to know my personally and who I am because I grew up far away from them, only visiting Uruguay for a few days a year. As I watched Encanto, I could relate to Mirabel’s sense of isolation and confutation towards making her family understand who she is and watch she has to offer.