Spaghetti Bowls
- Designer: Dobromiła Grabiec, Mikołaj Bańka, Kuba Bruss, Xiao Liu, Ilia Matiazh
- Project advisors: Sara Boś, Arkadiusz Szwed, Jakub Franczuk
- Materials: porcelain, vinegar
Hack the process
Creations of Mechanical Hands
Not much has changed since the mass production of porcelain was invented in the 19th century. Students at the School of Form decided to break this pattern and use KUKA robots to produce porcelain dishes. They wanted the results of their experiments to be a record of their struggle with the material, but also to answer their design questions: If we can do everything with two hands, can we do it with one (robotic) hand? How will porcelain behave when we add breakfast cereal, yeast and vitamin C tablets, or hygroscopic granules? Will the resulting objects be useful, precisely made? It turns out that by interfering with the material and the unusual way of forming, the students achieved amazing results.
Student project
Spaghetti Bowls
WHAT KUKA DOES: using an extruder, it forces the material inside a paper mould.
HOW: porcelain mixed with vinegar changes its density and physical properties. The bowl is formed through injection of porcelain „strands” pressed through the extruder into paper bowls. A spaghetti texture is made on the inner or outer wall of the paper bowl. In the firing process, the paper disappears.
Designers
Bowls was created by Dobromiła Grabiec, Mikołaj Bańka, Kuba Bruss, Xiao Liu, Ilia Matiazh - students of School of Form SWPS University.
Project was a part of "Hack the Process" exhibition, which was presented for one month at the gallery of the Polish Institute in Vienna as part of the Vienna Design Week (17.9-3.11.2022).