Food, Tools & Politics | Wise 2024/25

Projekt:
Modul 5  – 90501 Entwurf 1
Modul 9  – 90901 Entwurf 2
(3. 5+ sem. MA Anpassungstudents)

When & where:
Design & Social Context
Mondays & Tuesdays
Room 202/203

Kick off:
15 okt. 13.30 room 202

Supervision
Prof. Ineke Hans
KM Maciej Chmara (till dec.’24)
KM Justus Hilfenhaus (from Jan ’25)

Guests
LB Johannes Seibel, Mono
LB Corinne Mynatt, Tools for Food
Charles Spence, Prof. Experimental Psychology, Oxford University

Excursions:
Dutch Design Week in Eindhoven
Mono Manufaktur in Mettmann

We all need food, but there is a lot to say and question about it, such as

• practical: how and what do we eat and will we eat? What are our tools for eating? Which materials and technnologies are used for tools now and in the future?
→ For this we look at types of food, tools for food and the production of foodtools.

• political: what if you are poor or rich, what are the influences of war, a growing population and climate change on food? Where is it produced, or will it be and who has access to food?
→ For this we look at geo-politics around food.

• psychological: what do the multi-sensory experiences that food can evoke do to us? And how do changing habits, table manners or eating habits from other cultures influence what we eat?
→ For this we look the sensorial and antropological aspects of food.

PROJECT:

Changing habits, taste, recourses, materials, technology, climate, crops, scarcity, access and politics… all affect our relationship with food.
→ In this project you explore future scenarios and strategies and contexts for food. You will pick a geo-political and psychological aspect and design a future proof tool for food.

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