Bonhomie Kitchen -Design for kitchen, to live, learn and play: Re-conceptualize and re-functionalize / Kitchen usage to raise social interaction among people.

1.THESIS ABSTRACT

Meal Time is a happy social occasion in terms of biological imperative but also want to transcend this natural act by making it into an aesthetical ceremony and an art. I would like to create new behavior patterns and creative consciousness within the given space: kitchen: by doing (prepare & cook) and socializing (eat & share).

1) Techniques of Cooking 2) Formalities of Service 3) Placements of Table Setting 4) Etiquette of Consumption ====> Human dignity

2.PERSONAL STATEMENT

Sitting by a fire alone or with friends inside a shelter, a person is likely to acquire a more intense awareness of self and of human reality than can occur in the midst of open and undifferentiated space. Exploring a meaning of space, specifically a kitchen, and create new experience (direct, intimate or indirect, conceptual) by doing potential activities.

3.CONTEXT

Research about how the kitchen possessed different meaning/function among other cultures in terms of kitchen usage and generalize concept of possible interaction which building interaction modular.

•  Contexts
a) Experiential perspective
b) Space vs. Place
c) Personal relations + Special values
d) Spaciousness
e) Architectural space and awareness
f) Time and Space
g) The creation of space

•  MIT Media Lab Kitchen Project

•  Marti Guihe: http://www.guixe.com/

4.PROJECT DESCRIPTION

What I would like to implements with Bonhomie Kitchen
Output (A): Create and analyze 'Social Interaction' by doing Performance

a) Rebuild a space conceptually and physically/ possibly a movable walls +flexible spaces, so basically THE KITCHEN will be hub and other places (rooms) will be nods to connect from a kitchen.

: Personal space or public space (Walls)

Output (B): Kiosk or Installation for enhancing people's interaction

b) Installation piece (kiosk) controlled by a kitchen

: Spatial Design or Furniture Design

Output (B): Small objects with network functionality

c) Kitchen elements (Objects), which offers for users to share and build social interaction