Why buy tiles when can make my own?
It was the first time I ever asked myself this question.
I had fun making 18 squared clay tiles, glaze and fire them and hope that they won’t be too warped.
But the best part was installing the tiles with BLUE grout!
The finished panel became part of my first kitchen station — The Tool Station.
How do identity, habits, and cultural background shape the kitchen spaces we inhabit — and how do these spaces shape us in return?
While writing my thesis, these were the questions that initiated the process.
To explore the question, I invited individuals to rearrange a collection of objects from my own kitchen onto a kitchen station I built. The task was simple: organise it as if it were your own kitchen. What feels intuitive? What makes sense to you?
Before the experiment, I was skeptical that the differences would be significant. But every single participant arranged the objects differently. No two kitchens were the same.
The participants were never together in the same room, to avoid involuntary copying :) Yet each person instinctively knew how to organise the space according to their own logic, habits, rituals, and experiences.
What seemed like a simple act of arranging objects became a reflection of identity.
Thank you to Marina, Martin, Anastasia, Sandra, Benjamin, Arina, Anna, Devy, Julius, June, Emma, Harm and Violeta for bringing a piece of their kitchen into this research.
Big thanks to @spottheelderly for editing the video:)
It is a game of words, senses and connotations. I trusted my intuition and curiosity when working on the dictionary.
This is a dictionary of self-reflections, curiosity, experiments, interests and pure joy.
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