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The Best Air Fryer Consumer Reports for 2020 Reviews
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How Will We Behave Around Food in 2025
Ten years in the future, the world will be a very different place. (Read how). What does that mean for us, for the design of kitchens, and the people who make them – and how will we be able to live a sustainable life at home? To find out, IKEA collaborated with IDEO and design students School of Industrial Design at the Ingvar Kamprad Design Centre at Lund University, and the Industrial Design department at Eindhoven University of Technology.
CONCEPT KITCHEN 2025
EXHIBITION AT IKEA TEMPORARY, MILAN
One outcome of the 18 month long collaboration is the Concept Kitchen 2025 Business Insider exhibition at IKEA Temporary, open from April 9, Milan. The exhibition is just one part of an ongoing investigation by IKEA into how people’s relationship to food is changing. It serves to tangibly show what we might be doing in 2025: how we’ll be growing our food, storing it; how we’ll be cooking for profit, eating, living and working in the kitchen. EXHIBITION PRESS 16th April: Article on Dezeen blog 10th April: Article in Wired Italy Click here for more information about our collaboration and to download press quality photographs
PROTOTYPES OF THE KITCHEN OF 2025
A PROTOTYPE FOR 2025: A TABLE FOR LIVING
The dining table has always been the heart of the kitchen, a place for preparing food, and eating it. But as the world changes, so will our needs. That means that the table of the future will be designed to do so much more: it’s our preparation surface, hob, dining table, work bench and children’s play area. Technology will play its part too, helping to make us more confident cooks, while letting less food go to waste. Let’s explore how we’ll be preparing and cooking food in ten years…
DESIGN DETAIL: Table Technology
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 recognise objects and their movement and to project a display. This is ‘Casual Technology’: tools that give us control and guidance when we need it, but are otherwise hidden – a surface simplicity that minimises distractions and allows for mindful engagement with food..
A PROTOTYPE FOR 2025: STORING VISUALLY
Near-instantaneous food delivery from autonomous vehicles and drones means the end of the weekly shop, so we’ll store less, but it’ll be higher quality. While existing fridges waste energy and hide our food, this modern pantry makes food visible, keeping us mindful and inspired by the food we’ve got around us – so we’ll waste less of it. It’s ‘Casual technology’ – unobtrusive, embedded, yet aware, helping us to save energy and food waste. Here’s how we might be storing fried food in the future…
DESIGN DETAIL: ‘Casual Technology’ Shelving
The pantry features wooden shelves that contain hidden sensors and smart induction cooling technology. Visually referencing the market stall, these counter-level shelves keep fresh, perishable foods like eggs and fruit front of mind and close at hand. Meanwhile terracotta storage boxes are naturally cool, perfect for foods such as garlic, potatoes and carrots.
DESIGN DETAIL: Inductive Cooling Containers
Multifunctional, modular and inexpensive to produce, these storage containers allow food to be wirelessly cooled to just the right temperature. Double-walled glass cloches keep food visible, so we don’t overbuy. Insets made of porcelain, wood or slate keep food fresher for longer, and can be detached to use as tableware. The magnetic, stainless steel-gadoliminium alloy base is inductively cooled by the shelves. But if the container is placed on the kitchen table surface, the induction system switches to heating.
DESIGN DETAIL : Smart Packaging
The container’s temperature is ‘remote controlled’ by food packaging. To set the right storage temperature, we detach an RFID sticker from its packaging, put the food inside the container and the sticker on the outside. Sensing the presence of a container, the shelves will simply ‘read’ the sticker’s RFID storage instructions and adjust the temperature accordingly.
A PROTOTYPE FOR 2025: DISPOSING THOUGHTFULLY
As we become more conscious of the environmental impact of household waste, we’ll recycle and reuse far more. Cities will encourage that too, charging residents for non-recyclable rubbish by the kilogram. This waste and composting system helps us live more sustainably by making us more aware of what we’re throwing away, and helping our municipalities dispose of that waste more efficiently. Here’s how we might dispose of food on gas grill in 2020…
DESIGN DETAIL: Compost System
Organic waste washed from the sink into the composting system is blended, the water extracted, and it’s then compressed into a dry, odourless puck. These pucks can be stacked for pickup by the municipality. The waste water doesn’t flush away: it contains nutrients that can be safely used to feed our indoor plants.
DESIGN DETAIL: Waste System
We’ll separate non-organic waste by material. The can, bottle, or container is crushed, scanned to identify what it’s made of, and for contamination. Waste is then vacuum packed and sealed in a bio-polymer tube. A thermo-printed label records what we’ve disposed of and potential future uses. Depending on how wasteful we’ve been, we receive an energy credit or debit.
A PROTOTYPE FOR 2025: MINDFUL WATER USE
Water’s set to become more precious in the next ten years, so we’ll need to use it more responsibly. A ‘Mindful design’ solution makes us conscious of our everyday decisions, and helps us make better-informed choices about how we use water. Here’s how we may treat water in ten years…
DESIGN DETAIL: Grey Water System
Our sink has two plug holes: pivot one way for ‘grey’ water that be reused for washing up and watering plants, tipping to the right…
DESIGN DETAIL: Black Water System
… sends badly contaminated water (black water) through to the sewerage pipes for treatment.
THE UNIVERSITY COLLABORATION: DESIGNING THE CONCEPT KITCHEN
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DESIGNING THE CONCEPT KITCHEN
In August 2013, IKEA invited students from the School of Industrial Design at the Ingvar Kamprad Design Center, Lund University, and the Industrial Design department at Eindhoven University of Technology to answer the questions: What will life around food look like in 2025? And will we be able to help people live a healthier, more sustainable lifestyle? Here’s the story behind the brief, the research, the resulting student projects and four IDEO internships.
DESIGNING THE CONCEPT KITCHEN: ABOUT THE UNIVERSITIES
We believe working in design is about steering fluently through a constantly shifting landscape of needs and demands. Fast advances in culture and technology spark new behaviours and desires demanding pioneering products and services. At will, a designer can be a creative transformer and communicator alike – thinking, beyond the familiar – operating, with moral intelligence. Course Supervision / Direction: Claus-Christian Eckhardt and Anna Persson The Department of Industrial Design at Eindhoven University of Technology performs research on and provides education in creating intelligent systems, products and related services. In this project students focused on creating opportunities for people to engage in expressive and rich interactions with future kitchen appliances and food.
Course Supervision / Direction: Jelle Stienstra
DESIGNING THE CONCEPT KITCHEN: FINDING INSPIRATION To encourage students to look further afield for inspiration, we created videos featuring interviews with experts including an arctic explorer and an urban farmer.
DESIGNING THE CONCEPT KITCHEN: DESIGN PROCESS TOOLKITS
To teach the students more about the design process, we created a toolkit, containing fold out guides for researching as well other helpful techniques. Here’s a summary of the key steps: 1 OBSERVATION The best way to reveal insights and opportunities is to go out into the real world and see how people behave in their environment. 2 STORYTELLING What did we see and hear? How did we feel about it? What does it mean? 3 SYNTHESIS How do you turn inspiration into ideas? How to turn stories into concepts? 4 BRAINSTORMING To many people brainstorming is synonymous with undisciplined conversation. We’ve found that conducting a really good brainstorm involves lots of discipline and takes a fair bit of preparation. 5 PROTOTYPING Prototyping is a great way to communicate a concept with minimal investment. It allows you to quickly identify what may need to be refined.
DESIGNING THE CONCEPT KITCHEN: STUDENT PROJECTS
Throughout the project the students unearthed a wealth of knowledge and ideas. Click below to explore the students’ perspectives on how we’ll behave around food in 2025. These products, services and technologies both inspired the Milan exhibition, and will inform future product development at IKEA.
DESIGNING THE CONCEPT KITCHEN: EMERGING THEMES
Synthesising the student projects, we identified six themes we believe are crucial to understanding how we’ll behave around food in ten years. Read more here. COLLABORATIVE KITCHENS CITY LIVING HELPS SHARING BECOME THE NEW OWNING ENLIGHTENED STORAGE FOOD OUT OF SIGHT IS OUT OF MIND — STORAGE SHOULD INSPIRE MINDFUL KITCHEN APPLIANCES IN THE KITCHEN WILL EMBRACE HUMAN TACTILITY,, EXPRESSION & SKILLS THE EVERYWHERE KITCHEN PEOPLE LIVE MORE NOMADIC LIVES IN SMALLER AND MORE EFFICIENT HOMES HUMAN TECHNOLOGY KITCHENS WILL BE AUGMENTED BY INTUITIVE AND UNOBTRUSIVE TECHNOLOGY THE DEMOCRATIC KITCHEN GROWING, EXPERIMENTING, BUILDING. MAKING IS HAVING A RENAISSANCE
EXPLORE THE STUDENT PROJECTS
IKEA TEMPORARY
IKEA Temporary is a six-month-long exploration of life in and around the kitchen. via Vigevano 18, Milano, MM2, Porta Genova, Italy #IKEAtemporary From April 10 to April 19: Monday-Thursday 10am-10pm Friday-Sunday 10pm-12am From April 20: Monday-Thursday 12pm-10pm Friday-Sunday 12pm-12am
Student Projects
UTFORSKA
Joyce van Weverwijk (Netherlands) Merel Vermeeren (Netherlands) Nicholas Minns (United Kingdom) Rowan Verbraak (Netherlands) Coached by Gabriela Bustame A toolkit that transforms the kitchen into a lab for children This Utforska toolkit empowers children to explore various aspects of food. The basic kit includes several tools that can be used to investigate, for example, the […]
TOM
Anouk van Kasteren (Netherlands) Cas van Wezel (Netherlands) Dominique Fürst (Netherlands) Myrte van Dongen (Netherlands) Coached by Sander Lucas A soft toy with embedded technology to help children learn about food Tom is a soft toy designed to make children feel comfortable around the kitchen. Tom can speak and provides encouragement to youngsters to explore […]
TOGETHERNESS: WORKABOUT
Martin Samuelsson (Sweden) A table designed for the whole family to work side by side Workabout is a multi-functional kitchen table centrally placed in the room. It consists of a flexible seating area at one end and a storage-drawer for ingredients and utensils at the other. The middle of the table top holds several recessed and […]
SNOKÖK
Eriano Troenokarso (Netherlands) Modular kitchen elements that guide you through the recipe The Snokök kitchen system consists of a rotating working table and modular elements, such as cutting blocks, a stove and a fridge, which can be bought and replaced over time and which fit into the table. Modular elements are extended with interactive kitchen […]
SMARKER
Daphne Menheere (Netherlands) Coached by Jeroen Thoolen Making and drawing edible ink to increase curiosity and appetite for food The Smarker toolkit complements the variety of edible inks provided in IKEA stores by helping children and their parents explore and create their own edible ink flavours to best match the dishes being served up at […]
SMAAK
Iris Minkenberg (Netherlands) Coached by Jeroen Thoolen A toolkit to introduce children to fresh and healthy food In order to fill the gap of knowledge about the food on our plates and its resource; the SMAAK toolkit was designed. Children can use the toolkit, consisting of a box and instruction cards, to grow their own […]
SEMIX
Hao Zhang (China) Linying Fu (China) Kitchen storing boxes import raw material and export semi food Semix integrates three parts of the cooking process – planting, harvesting and storing – in one smart system. An inner LED light in the Semix system powers on and off, reacting to the proximity of the user. When no […]
PROSUMER
Vleer Doing (Netherlands) Coached by Joep Frens A system of products to augment the cooking experience The Prosumer kitchen line is a system of products that are aimed at the more enthusiastic home cook. The core of the Prosumer system is an intelligent fume extractor that can both observe the actions of the cook and […]
ORIGAMI SALAD SET
Xiaoqian Liu (China) Make children feel equal when they’re cooking with their parents The concept is to create kitchenware that can help children, aged between four and seven, to prepare simple dishes independently. The purpose is to allow children who lack cooking skills to feel equal to their parents, who generally have greater culinary ability, […]
NUANCO
Mike van Hamersveld (Netherlands) Piet Overgoor (Netherlands) Roël Tibosch (Netherlands) Coached by Martijn Verkuijl An expression-rich household coffee machine integrated into the environment The Nuanco coffee machine provides a wide range of flavours with just two varieties of coffee bean. The powerful and bitter Robusta was chosen to complement the lighter Arabica bean. The ‘expression […]
MONKEY KITCHEN
Christian Thams (Norway/Canada) Laura Gosselink (Netherlands) Richard de Jong (Netherlands) A movable mini-kitchen for those who don’t like to cook There are many instances when people are not in the mood to cook – when they’re tired, hungry, or short on time, for example. This is when they are in the ‘monkey mode’. Everyone can […]
MINDFUL
Vincent van Rheden (Netherlands) Coached by Bart Hengeveld Interaction paradigm that utilises expression to become engaged Inspired by mindfulness and other philosophical stances such as phenomenology, this work presents alternative interaction paradigms for kitchen utensils. This approach counters the tendency to design for efficiency, generalisations and ease of use leading to carelessness. Expressive, embodied and contextual […]
LJUDKÖK
Ya Shu (China) Coached by Jeroen Thoolen A playful extension to the kitchen that turns cooking into a soundscape Ljudkök is a playful extension to the kitchen that basically turns cooking into a soundscape. The system, which uses utensils as well as ingredients to make sounds, works in two ways. In the first instance, ingredients […]
KRUDDÖR
Dennis Geutjes (Netherlands) Jaap van Gent (Netherlands) Luca Verhees (Netherlands) Coached by Sande Sustainable cultivation through active care and climate drawers In order to empower sustainable cultivation of herbs and vegetables, the Kruddör system is made up of several elements that stimulate and support the active care that growers provide for their ingredients. The first […]
INSPIRATIONAL STORAGE
Marinda Svidén (Sweden) Martina Zbinden (Switzerland) Inspirational storage brings the inspiring marketplace into your home The kitchens of today seem to be more about storage and less about food. Our research points to the fact that the traditional set-up of keeping food ‘behind closed doors’, where it is not constantly on show, increases food waste […]
INSPIRATIONAL FOOD STORAGE
Erica Lundström (Sweden) Ingrid Allenbach (Sweden) Visible food storage that inspires and reduces waste How can you be inspired to prepare food in your kitchen? Many people will say that inspiration comes from “where the food is”. But more often than not, merely opening a fridge or cupboard will not provide the necessary inspiration to […]
INDIVID KITCHEN
Axel Hjertman (Sweden) A collapsible and mobile kitchen frame, easy to rearrange/personalise IKEA has the ambition to supply “excellent form and function, good everyday quality with built-in sustainability at a low price, affordable for many people”. In other words, what it defines as Democratic Design. One thing we know for sure is that people have […]
IKEA FAM
Linyuzi Zhang (China) Sofie Woge (Sweden) Philip Bergström (Sweden) Bringing friends, family and professional chefs into your kitchen The IKEA Fam unit is a platform that provides a shared cooking experience, connecting people in different locations by using hologram technology to display each other’s images in their respective kitchens. The unit offers personal, professional cooking […]
HANNAH
Isabelle van der Ende (Netherlands) Coached by Jeroen Thoolen A smart mirror that addresses education about healthy food The Hannah mirror educates children about their body type, the digestive process food goes through in the body and the effects of different types of food. As children stand in from of the Hannah mirror, games are […]
HACKA
Linus Hagberg (Sweden) Philipp Süssmann (Germany) Niklas Papen (Germany) A modular frame system to create or hack kitchens to fit your personal needs We recognised a growing trend that, in general, people want to modify products to make them unique to their own needs and desires. They aspire to be more creative, individual and free […]
FUTURE SNACKING
Oskar Eriksson (Sweden) Victor Cronsby (Sweden) Freeze Drying Station: home food processing and storage With the hectic lifestyles of the average Swedish family likely to get busier in the future, time is set to be highly valued. At the same time, trends around food continue to grow stronger, for reasons linked to sustainability, taste and […]
FAMILY KITCHEN
Joanne Pek (Netherlands) A kitchen that supports making and sharing recipes The recipe cards of Family Kitchen, hosted by IKEA, are step-by-step instructions on how to make food. These cards can be used to make great dishes in normal kitchens but can also be used in the ‘intelligent’ kitchen. People can devise their own recipes […]
CREATIVE COOK
Rob van Kasteren (Netherlands) Coached by Miguel Bruns Alonso Digital guidance that supports the cooking process and cooking skills Creative Cook is a future kitchen concept that motivates children to be part of the cooking process. It combines the actual kitchen with augmented reality. By enriching the physical environment with digital elements, the children’s creativity […]
Cookery
Daborah Pulles (Netherlands) Gerben Hoetmer (Netherlands) Michelle van Lieshout (Netherlands) Youri Haa (Netherlands) Coached by Martijn Verkuijl A gaming platform that connects learning about food with other subjects Cookery Kids is a fun, educational gaming platform about food that can be used at school and in the home. The games link food to traditional subjects […]
Communi Kitchen
Maria Vittoria Alfonsi (Italy) Anne Goldammer (Germany) Jekaterina Potapova (Lithuania) Lui Sheng (China) A different way to meet through the joy of cooking CommuniKitchen is an open community kitchen for big-city neighbourhoods. It is a way for people to meet and enjoy each other’s company while cooking together. Through our ‘Pop-up Kitchen’ experiment we learned […]
CHEF
Anne Wil Burghoorn (Netherlands) Eva de Bruijn (Netherlands) Thomas Bouwman (Netherlands) Vincent Visser (Netherlands) Coached by Martijn Verkuijl Interactive cooking games for children to encourage healthy eating The Chef series of interactive cooking games encourages healthy eating and teaches children and adults about new ingredients and how to cook step by step. The games come […]
Annie
Kristin Elizabeth Løberg (Norway) Gustav Max Lindholm (Sweden) Isabel Venneman (Sweden) Annie the supporter aims to activate and inspire you to grow your kitchen We believe that consumer behaviour in the future will have to adapt to the scarcity of basic resources, creating a culture that distinguishes between needs from wants. Annie is a kitchen […]
EMERGING THEMES
Synthesising the insight from 27 student projects, we identified six themes we believe are crucial to understanding how we’ll behave around food in ten years. COLLABORATIVE KITCHENS As more and more people move to cities, we live around more and more people but at the same time have a much less deep relationships with people […]
THE WORLD IN 2025
What kind of world will we be designing for in 2025 Analysing trends and synthesising the student’s research, we defined a series of twelve assumptions about the world we’ll live in in 2025. We’ll be livingmore urban lives Over 60% of the world’s population will live in urban centres. Megacities will continue to thrive, but […]
ABOUT OUR COLLABORATION
ENVISIONING THE FUTURE KITCHEN – How We Will Forage, Create and Consume in Our Homes Of all the rooms in our homes the kitchen is the center of energy, activity, comfort, and creativity—the beating heart of any dwelling. In the coming decade as our environments and habits change, the kitchen as we know it will […]