The project is called Le temps d’une soupe, and it aims to bring Montrealers into greater sympathy with those who sleep on the street or in shelters. The central part of the work is a platform where pairs of strangers are seated in matching chairs (no two pairs the same), given a bowl of soup, and invited to talk together while they eat. Mediators prompt the conversation with a card containing a question or piece of information about homelessness, and also step in if an exchange gets too heated or uncomfortable. Read this story at The Globe and Mail…