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Have a tiny house? Here is the perfect kitchen!
At IKEA Temporary, a Concept Kitchen for 2025
It was hard to miss the green and white striped billboards and subway ads dotted around Milan for #IKEATemporary, IKEA's mega pop-up near Zona Tortona. With over 200 products for sale; METOD kitchen vignettes by Matali Crasset, Paola Navone and Studio Irvine; a fully operational cafeteria serving up those famous Swedish meatballs—including their new "sustainable" veggie meatballs; and a preview of Ilse Crawford's new capsule collection, SINNERLING; the friendly 1,400 square meter space will continue to be a hub of activity throughout the run of the Milan Expo.
Swedish meatballs aside, a wonderful prototype of the future of home cooking is worth the trip to IKEA Temporary. The result of a 2013 collaboration between IKEA, IDEO and the students of the School of Industrial Design at the Ingvar Kamprad Design Centre at Lund University, and the Industrial Design department at Eindhoven University of Technology, the presentation shares learnings gleaned from the work of 54 students across 27 projects and four internships with a built Concept Kitchen for 2025.
The prototype touched on four main themes: storage, waste, water and cooking. Although nothing presented was completely revolutionary, the overall vision felt like a cohesive imagining of the near future where daily drone delivery of groceries, grey water management and municipal fees for disposal of waste are the norm.
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It was hard to miss the green and white striped billboards and subway ads dotted around Milan for #IKEATemporary, IKEA's mega pop-up near Zona Tortona. With over 200 products for sale; METOD kitchen vignettes by Matali Crasset, Paola Navone and Studio Irvine; a fully operational cafeteria serving up those famous Swedish meatballs—including their new "sustainable" veggie meatballs; and a preview of Ilse Crawford's new capsule collection, SINNERLING; the friendly 1,400 square meter space will continue to be a hub of activity throughout the run of the Milan Expo.
Swedish meatballs aside, a wonderful prototype of the future of home cooking is worth the trip to IKEA Temporary. The result of a 2013 collaboration between IKEA, IDEO and the students of the School of Industrial Design at the Ingvar Kamprad Design Centre at Lund University, and the Industrial Design department at Eindhoven University of Technology, the presentation shares learnings gleaned from the work of 54 students across 27 projects and four internships with a built Concept Kitchen for 2025.
The prototype touched on four main themes: storage, waste, water and cooking. Although nothing presented was completely revolutionary, the overall vision felt like a cohesive imagining of the near future where daily drone delivery of groceries, grey water management and municipal fees for disposal of waste are the norm.
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[/center]The coolest part...
THE KITCHEN TABLE HUB
What looks like a typical IKEA kitchen table is actually a multifunctional food hub for preparing, cooking and eating meals. The technology consists of a camera and projector positioned above the table and induction coils underneath the table surface. Networked together, they allow the system to recognize objects and their movement and to project a display.
The table becomes a surface for interacting and learning about ingredients. Specially designed cookware activates induction coils to create a cooking surface.
Video at the link.
What looks like a typical IKEA kitchen table is actually a multifunctional food hub for preparing, cooking and eating meals. The technology consists of a camera and projector positioned above the table and induction coils underneath the table surface. Networked together, they allow the system to recognize objects and their movement and to project a display.
The table becomes a surface for interacting and learning about ingredients. Specially designed cookware activates induction coils to create a cooking surface.
Video at the link.
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