Student Projects

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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, […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]