Darwin
Relationship Between Human Beings and Ecology
Within the Envisioning workshop with ALMA, the students of the Master in Product Design Jiahao Yu, Doruk Sönmezocak and Şaban Furkan Zıkkavun, reflecting on food seen as a medium to reflect human society and the relationship between human beings and ecology, envisioned a dessert collection called “Darwin”.
Relationship Between Human Beings and Ecology
Within the Envisioning workshop with ALMA, the students of the Master in Product Design Jiahao Yu, Doruk Sönmezocak and Şaban Furkan Zıkkavun, reflecting on food seen as a medium to reflect human society and the relationship between human beings and ecology, envisioned a dessert collection called “Darwin”.
Project Leader | Mentor
Maddalena Casadei
Project Authors
Jiahao Yu
Doruk Sönmezocak
Şaban Furkan Zıkkavun
Three different chocolates, corresponding to the “human era” (Anthropocene), “transition period” (Chaos) and “symbiosis era” (Symbiosis): through the attributes of food, customers could experience the three changes in the evolutionary direction of symbiosis with nature. By adjusting and changing the shapes, textures, hardness, contact area with the mouth, melting time, and fillings of the three desserts, all of them use chocolate as the raw material to bring similar but different experiences to reflect the different characteristics of the three period.
This design explores the additional potential of food and creates different sensory experiences through the change of different attributes of food. Food is not just food, but as a tool that allows us to experience the future.
