If you are good at cooking you will for sure love IKEA’s new kitchen design. If you aren’t, well, you will love the Swedish furniture maker’s design even more, as this futuristic kitchen, by using induction heating and computer vision technologies, will help you with cooking throughout the process and suggest you new recipes as well.
IKEA has recently revealed at the EXPO Milano 2015 ‘The Kitchen of 2025,’ a collaboration of IKEA and global design consultancy IDEO with design members from Lund University and Eindhoven University of Technology. The concept was based on student’s idea about how the world would be in 2025 as well as several surveys, interviews, research, and experiments done with the sole purpose of finding out how the world we live in and people’s behavior might change in the coming ten years. According to CNBC, “the team's hypothesises for the world in 2025 included a 40 percent increase in food prices, drones delivering shopping and cities levying charges on non-recyclable rubbish by the kilogram.”
The final design that was revealed during the Design week in Italy, besides the ‘Table for Living,’ included a transparent fridge that prevent you from wasting food, a build-in composting system, weighing scales and several sensors and cameras that will be essential during the cooking process. A camera placed above the table will be able to recognize the foods placed on the table while the table itself, besides serving as a stove, will serve as a weighing scale where the camera will project all the necessary information along with recipe suggestions and the cooking time needed for each type of food being used.
The creative design also aims to bring people and families together, help them become better at cooking, socialize more, change behaviors over time for the better, and in the meantime, save the environment. “We were inspired by the idea of families sitting around the campfire, sharing stories of the day, and cooking,” said Ideo design director Juho Parviainen. “Ikea came to Ideo to help explore behaviors around food and how that would impact designing the kitchen of 2025. At the outset, the team thought about the kitchen from the perspective of designing for behaviors, not just things,” Parviainen added.
The idea has already attracted a lot of interest and according to IKEA’s kitchen and dining range manager Gerry Dufresne, the concept idea along with the studies, research, etc. behind it, will be used in the future. “Personally, I do believe that the table is going to be extremely important for the future," said IKEA head of design Marcus Engman.”That's going to be the masterpiece of the home. It used to be, hundreds of years ago, that was the big piece,” he added.
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