Kitchens and kitchenware reflect the rich diversity of culinary cultures across time and geography. They are essential in every culture, shaped by factors like geography, climate, and culinary traditions. They offer insights into the habits and history of others, serving as portals to understanding diverse societies. We want to explore how kitchens and kitchenware can adapt to evolving life-styles and constraints while preserving cultural identity and heritage.
Modular designs in kitchens or kitchenware offer a multifaceted approach to addressing the evolving needs of contemporary living. Rooted in the principles of functionality, adaptability, and efficiency, modularity can serve as a guiding philosophy that could transform culinary spaces into dynamic hubs of innovation.
In this workshop we aim to understand and explore, how modular designs in kitchens reflect culinary cultures and how they resonate with the ethos of sustainability.
By rethinking habits in culinary environments and investigating different scenarios and needs connected to them, the conceptual and practical design workshop deals with the question of the relevance of the ideas of modernism for the challenges of the 21st century and putting them into perspective of contemporary ways. Master students should reflect the ideas of the 20th century, to understand the developments through time and possibilities for the future. Here they will be reflecting case studies by Lella and Massimo Vignelli, Wilhelm Wagenfeld, Nick Roehricht or others.
Discussing (and tasting) each others culinary cultures, students are encouraged to view the kitchen as a testament of cultural diversity and a laboratory to working on a recipe for new impulses.
The workshop will be conducted hybrid in Rochester and in Essen at the same time. Prof. Marion Digel and Celina Kroder will be monitoring at RIT in the USA. Cornelius Richter will be monitoring parallel in Germany. Sam Rickel and Josh Owen will be coming in for feedback discussions.
There will be up to 6 Industrial Design Master Students from RIT and up to 6 Product Design / Design Futures students from Folkwang participating.
The workshop will be a full day programm from 10 AM -18 PM / CET at Folkwang and 9 AM - 6 PM EST at RIT.
Course overlaps will be hybrid from 9 AM - noon EST / 3 PM - 6 PM CET. There may be American-German teams depending on participation. |
