Beyond the Lid

Graduation Project 2022

Introduction:

Have you ever gone on safari in your own kitchen?
No? That is not so strange. We have bigger and more important things to do, right?

With climate change seemingly approaching a peak, the solution seems to lay in conserving the “wild” and far away corners of the nature world. In the disappearing jungles, oceans full of plastic, and dying soil.
Yet at the same time, in the human world, we do everything to protect ourselves from the unexpected and wild. Kitchens have never been so clean, food never so indestructible. Fear of molds and bacteria caused by lack of knowledge. Plastic packaging is taking over the supermarket filled with perfect vegetables. Our kitchens are specialized in keeping us safe from anything wild, while we struggle to keep the wild safe from us. Protecting seems to be the motto of this human focused century. Keep, save, preserve, conserve.

However, more and more people seem to discover that this attitude of “keeping safe” is the first problem to solve on our way toward a more sustainable future. So, let’s go on safari in our own kitchens! Lower your eye level to just above the kitchen counter in search for something wild.

The Collection:

I went on a kitchen safari at the beginning of last year. And it was right there, that I found the most dull and mundane object you can possibly imagine: a lid. Only to discover that this lid would give me some unexpecting insights into food preservation and our attitude towards nature.

The insights and stories I found have been developed into four preserving products that show a different part of the future kitchen as I imagine it would be. Not too clean and not too safe. Each product is bound to a specific preserving method and reveals a little bit of what’s beyond the lid.

enjoy!

Mily Bogaarts

Beyond the Lid

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