Diane Leclair Bisson

INDUSTRIAL DESIGN | ANTHROPOLOGY | MATERIAL RESEARCH

The Screaming Plate Project

Research into the area of food preparation and consumption, and its role in our social and cultural lives, is becoming more and more prominent as globalization creates a growing interest in the food and eating habits of other cultures. Along with this comes an increasing interest in the relationship between containers and content, between food and the utensils we use to prepare it. The Screaming Plate Project examines through ethnographic research people’s experience of food, food related objects and food environments to create new meaningful tableware in a variety of contexts.

Objects of comfort – the bowl/plate

While culinary and eating habits have witness many changes over the last 25 ears, sharing time at dinner is still heavily emphasized in contemporary family life. Time for food preparation and serving is however much more limited. To respond to today’s hectic lifestyle, meals are often based on mixing foods in a one-pot cooking. The hybrid large bowl/plate was designed to cater to this type of meal and to new needs for greater mobility in the home. The bowls are endowed with large borders to insure a better grip.