We grew up eating together, why do we stop?

 

 

 

Bake (k)it is an assembly desert kit to increase millennials interactions during meal time driving the habit of using technological device away. 

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With the rise of smartphones, technology have grown more and more excluding, the consequences of which can have direct effects in term of social behaviours. I wanted to craft an experimental response to our socially-isolating smartphone overuse – especially during meal time. I took this topic as an opportunity to research millennials interactions during meals in domestic environments. The Bake (k)it prevents the use of smartphones, by creating a manual distraction to steer the attention away from the screens. In the form of a luxury dessert assembling kit, it will keep participants engaged in assembling a dessert, tackling the concept of ‘phubbing’ with a culture of food sharing less common in Occidental countries.  Following the Middle-East habit of eating traditional meals by hands, this kit for world-famous desserts keeps hands both ‘busy and dir-ty’. I have tried to bring influences from cultures around the world to answer European challenges.