The ICOOK project investigates the connections between the kitchen, food culture, design, and information technology. It explores how these worlds are converging as technology becomes more integrated into daily life. The project will involve students designing new kitchen tools, tableware, and cookware that merge smart technology with cultural influences from both East and West. Prototypes will be developed and exhibited to showcase new concepts for the kitchen of the future.
3. The kitchen has stopped being a more or less
functional space for the preparation of food, and is
now a cultural universe, the space of imagination for
many people (not just designers and manufacturers).*
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4. ICOOK project investigates the connections between
the kitchen and its parallel worlds, adapting means
transforming the moment, converting problems into
challenges, challenges into opportunities: to improve,
to conduct research, to open up new markets, to
develop new trends.
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6. The new digital world.
Home, office or public place, where ever you are,
digital technology follows you to give you the utmost
comfort and ease. Our kitchens too are not deprived of
it. With this ever-increasing involvement of technology
in our lives have you ever thought what the future of
cooking would be? Merging up the worlds of
gastronomy and digital technology we will try to
imagine the future of cooking.
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10. The new world and the globalization.
Globalization is not a new trend in which one party
dominates and assimilates another, but an ancient and
neutral process that affects all parties equally.
Food is intertwined with culture. Food plays a complex
role in culture, one example that could demonstrate it
is coffee. This example highlight how the integral role
food and drinks have shaped social, intellectual parts
of speech in a culture.
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12. The new world food culture.
“Tell me what you eat, and I’ll tell you who you are,”
wrote renowned gastronome Jean Anthelme Brillat-
Savarin in 1825.
Exploring culture through food will give us a different
sight and understand how food shapes us and our
culture.
What we consume, how we acquire it, who prepares it,
who’s at the table, and who eats first is a form of
communication that is rich with meaning.
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19. Cook with IT..
Now Google's cooking / Internet giant's free, gourmet
global cuisine powers its workforce while offering chefs
and producers a place to shine.
The blog world is also full of food, with many food
enthusiasts self-publishing their own food creations
and experiments.
Cooking blogs are great because they illustrate the
cooking process and suggest new taste combinations.
Here are some of my favorites. They're especially good
if you're cooking for a family or a large group.
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24. This is where Internet Cooking comes in
Imagine...
You have five minutes to cook dinner for the family, via
the Internet, to be delivered whenever you specify.
Imagine a website that allows you to prepare a meal on
the screen, in an animated way, so you can see
yourself adding a pinch of garlic to the animated pot,
perhaps starting from an online menu and tweaking it.
When you're done cooking your animated meal, your
exact cooking directions are transmitted to a local
kitchen-business that follows your steps. They cook
your meal and load it on a truck that delivers to your
neighborhood.
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25. The digital Kitchen
The rise of digital, online technology poses intriguing
questions about the future of kitchen appliances.
Opening up of appliances to external communications
channels could be the future of kitchen.
Now imagine you can do the cooking on your iPhone,
monitoring the kitchen appliances...
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27. ICOOK project
In one hand ICOOK will emphasize the new
convergence between the food culture, the design and
the IT technology. The future of food is here, SMART
kitchen appliance that will make cooking appliance
more comfortable are our next design challenge. In the
universe of SMART kitchen hight tech and low tech will
coexist.
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28. ICOOK project
In the other hand ICOOK will emphasize the new
convergence between the different cultures West, East
and South, fruit of the globalization that create new
possibilities in the transfer of cultural behavior.
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29. ICOOK project
ICOOK project will investigate this new paradigm in
both directions. This goes together with high-tech
convenience combined with the pleasure of
«handmade» focuses on new materials, new forms,
new solutions.
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30. Playing with ideas......
The challenge will be for the project participants to
explore new ideas and create new forms in three
different categories: Tableware - Kitchenware -
Cookware.
They will explore the convergence between the food
culture, the design and the IT technology as well the
convergence of different and opposite culture and how
this could create new habits, new behavior and new
objects.
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31. Playing with ideas......
ICOOK project will run in parallel with other University
through the world (Singapore, Shanghai , Tokyo,
France) to confront the vision of different cultures and
how this could merge and converge, to create the
Design of tomorrow.
ICOOK project will run in two different ways :
• Running the project as a class (IDAS.....) this will
be the core of the project.
• Running the project as punctual & intensive
workshops in different locations Japan, China,
(
Singapore)
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32. Playing with ideas......
The output will be be to create simulations of the
concepts imagined by the students, those new ideas
will be submitted to the appreciation of chefs and
company participating to the project it will be
evaluated in term of of functionality, ergonomics,
convenience, material, finishing and production.
In fall semester prototypes will be realized and one
exhibition is planed in Singapore.
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