MIT MEDIA LAB & HARVARD GSD
Home 2050
Future of living
Reimagining the home experience
The home, one of our oldest technologies, has had very few significant changes throughout the decades. And yet, the technolgies around it have rapidly changed the world we live in. These series of investigations examine what happens when we start bringing some of these technologies into the home, to rethink some of the home’s staples, and reimagine what the home experience could be.
IKEA 2050
IKEA I/O is a design fiction that crafts a global vision of architectural space and the home in the year 2050, through the format of the yearly IKEA catalog. The project questions every aspect of the home, from the kitchen, to surface materials, to new room typologies, and new interfaces.
MIT Media Lab "Science Fiction Fabrication" - Professors: Joe Paradiso, Joost Bonsen and Dan Novy
Prep-it: The future of grocery
Each year in the US, we waste 40% of all the food we cultivate. Currently, the most expressed solutions for this problem are composting and reselling, but these don't work because people don't like the stigma of used food. Since food is ingested, it can make us sick, which is where our caution stems from. So instead of solving the problem at the end, why not start at the beginning? Say hello to Prep'it
Harvard Graduate School of Design "Alimentary Design" - Professors: Shohei Shigematsu and Christy Cheng
The Casual Kitchen: Smart surfaces & robotics
The "Casual Kitchen" is a project born out of the curiosity to rethink the future of the kitchen space, and innovations in appliance interfaces by using smart surfaces and robotics. Cooking and dining spaces will become more casual in nature; stemming from the innovations in delivery services, meal kits, and grocery services. We won't need the burden of excessive industrial appliances, but instead, multi-functional, temperature regulated surfaces where cooling can occur right next to heating and storage. Food can be stored contextually, and there can be a seamless transition between storing, cooking, warming and cooling, as curated by new kitchen surfaces.
Team: City Science Group - MIT Media Lab
