MICHELLE
KARTOKUSUMO
design
EATUAL is a handcrafted ceramic plate with adaptable patterned beech-rosewood ‘chopping board’ feature and different level of compartments sections to highlight signature eating ritual activity.
It is designed based on a personal eating ritual, which has an organized and neat eating style, food preparer behavior, and certain pattern in eating sequence and movements around the plate.
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Materials; ceramic, beach and rose wood.
“Rituals can be a way to focus our intention”, bringing us into the present moment.
Rituals heighten our enjoyment of food, our engagements in small rituals while eating brings out a more flavourful food.
EATUAL features ‘/.
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different compartments sections to separate different kind of foods
clean and simple design; sections are separated using level of heights
smooth surface; curves are filleted at just certain edges to enlighten the activity of transporting the food around the plate
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wooden chopping board to highlight ‘the preparer’ ritual behavior; adaptable (can be lifted off for cleaning)
decorative pattern to brings out aesthetic aspect to the plate
EATUAL mock ups ‘/.
EATUAL processes ‘/.
Design aim ;
adaptable and decorative implement which highlights eating activity
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Design research ;
organised and neat eating style
'the preparer' behaviour
certain pattern in eating sequence