CAREAMIC: A sustainable initiative taking shape through a collaboration between a café and a designer to limit waste of chipped tableware
2025 (English)Independent thesis Advanced level (degree of Master of Fine Arts (Two Years)), 20 credits / 30 HE credits
Student thesis [Artistic work]
Abstract [en]
CAREAMIC came from a reflection on caring for objects and what it might look like to repair our surroundings the way we repair ourselves. Inspired by a love for café and dining experiences, the project enters the unsustainable life cycle of professional ceramic tableware, with a focus on intentional repair of Komet café’s chipped cups. Using and developing accessible tools, the product-service-system approach blends mass-produced objects with a detail-oriented design and a handcrafted technique. It introduces a model that allows tableware to be repaired on-site, directly where damage occurs. While developing a close collaboration with Komet, the CAREAMIC service-system pushes the project towards becoming a scalable and expandable rehabilitation program for our functional but not-quite-usable, chipped tableware.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
2025. , p. 63
Keywords [en]
tableware, ceramic, repair, hand-craft, broken, chipped, café, catering, service, system
National Category
Design
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:konstfack:diva-10359OAI: oai:DiVA.org:konstfack-10359DiVA, id: diva2:1963711
External cooperation
Komet Stockholm
Educational program
Design Ecologies (Master)
Supervisors
Examiners
2025-06-122025-06-032025-09-26Bibliographically approved