COOKIT
Too much convenience in design has led to the loss of value in daily practices. This project explores the ritual of preparing food at home as a way of bringing back authenticity in our lives. The Cookit is a set of essential kitchenware that promotes the adoption of home cooking rituals among urban cooking neophytes in order to improve their daily emotional well being. Cookit merges efficiency and playfulness to shift the mundane process of meal preparation into an enhanced sensory experience. Through suggestive typologies, this family of objects celebrates sensory interactions with fresh ingredients, enhancing the preparation phase of the cooking cycle.
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By integrating sensory interactions with the tools and space we use, the Cookit changes the perception of cooking.
The Cookit is a set of essential kitchenware that promotes the adoption of home cooking rituals among urban dwellers by providing simplicity in use and emotional well being while creating delight. Consequently, the user is more mindful of the health of his body, mind and environment.
By merging complementary typologies of conventional kitchen utensils, the kit forms a compact, portable set for meal preparation that revisits how we approach cooking tasks.
For each task, there is a tool and a sensory attribution that complements the ingredients.
The Cookit includes a press, a grater, a measuring spoon, a cutting board and a strainer.
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In a larger scope, Cookit offers a sustainable alternative to meal sourcing by encouraging urban dwellers to cook their meals at home rather than sourcing them through food delivery services or processed meal kits. The adoption of this practice of care entails emotional well being but also physical and environmental as it reduces the amount of packaging and waste produced. The user becomes more mindful of the external factors that are involved in the system.
Cookit redefines convenience and enhances daily quality of life by connecting sensory exploration and simplicity to functionality.
Copy of Bitar_A_ThesisBook.pdfAngela Bitar
Angela Bitar is an Industrial designer and Interior architect based in NYC . After completing with honors a BFA in Interior Architecture at ALBA in Lebanon, she then moved on to pursue a MFA in Industrial Design at the Parsons School of Design.
Her multidisciplinary academic path shaped her perspective to incorporate different disciplines in any project. She believes it is important to consider a variety of factors that affect any situation in order to have the most adequate design response. By merging both disciplines, she approaches design from a holistic point of view by integrating her understanding of how bodies interact with tools in a designated space.
She focuses on the sensory aspect of design and the impact good design has on our well being. Her goal as a designer is to reflect social behaviors through the spaces and products we interact with by creating a coherent link accross the construct environment.
Her body of work includes hospitality, commercial and residential architectural projects to products of everyday life. She always considers sustainability and experimentation to drive her decisions. Angela emphasizes on conceptual representation in concrete form. She aims to interpret and adapt contextual issues to find playful and innovative ways of celebrating our connection to the material world as well as each other.
She is passionate about understanding the way cultural diversity shapes our behavior as human beings in this intrinsically connected world.
