Weekly review
This week I’ve been working on the content for Review 4. Over the weekend last week I travelled to London to see the exhibition and visit one of my very favourite precedent, the Design District Canteen. I also went to the Design Museum and the Shirley Sherwood Gallery of Botanical Art for some exhibition I really like and related to my project.
Group Tutorial
During this week’s group tutorial, I expressed concerns about the proposed spatial arrangement, in which the teaching kitchen and the communal kitchen could be combined. To keep up with the live teaching process, it is important to consider how people can utilise the communal kitchen’s culinary tools and see the teachers, determining how the teaching space and the space being taught should be laid out will be challenging.
I learned about the cuisine writer and famous cook Ottolenghi during this seminar. I had three thoughts and ideas as I was researching the subject after seeing his website and YouTube channel ‘Ottolenghi test kitchen’.
The first was that I couldn’t wait to create the cuisine in the video because as I was viewing it, my mind was continually imaging what it would taste like. My viewing experience was multi-sensory because to the appealing colours of the food in the film and the sounds of the meal being created. I found this visual and acoustic experience that mimicked the tastebuds to be quite exciting. In order to elicit taste memories in the users of the area, I thought it would be interesting to incorporate visual aesthetic components to the spaces in my concept. This might draw more onlookers into the building.
The second is that many users may want to watch culinary videos on their mobile phones or other electronic devices when cooking instruction does not take place in a community kitchen, thus it would be useful to have a stand or screen for electronic devices in the kitchen area.
Thirdly, people might want to record their cooking, whether it be via the use of a manual recipe or an electronic device like a cell phone. People can use this to make their subsequent cooking sessions better. A design that enables users to set up their mobile phones or other devices for shooting would be beneficial given the rise of social media and people’s desire to share their daily lives, and this would also make it easier for people who enjoy making videos.
Weird sensation feels good: The World of ASMR
This exhibition is a series of related installations made from the human senses. I was inspired by the variety of sensory stimuli that space can bring to people. My project involves the human senses of taste, smell, sight and touch. Thinking about it from this perspective, space and the senses are closely linked. I have three main spaces, the food market (tactile based), the kitchen (olfactory based) and the dining space (olfactory, taste based). The most intense sensory experience is different for each space.
When flower dream
Explore a vibrant food utopia by Pip & Pop
When people think of expired food, they may think of it as not being fresh, healthy or safe, and I was thinking about how to use visual elements to weaken this idea. This exhibition gave me the answer, with gorgeous and vibrant colours that give a sense of vibrancy.
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