Yeast Coast Bowls
- Designer: Zuzanna Hofman, Pola Kołodziej, Piotr Kasprzak, Michał Krupowicz, Mikołaj Markowski
- Project advisors: Sara Boś, Arkadiusz Szwed, Jakub Franczuk
- Materials: water, sugar, yeast, vitamin C effervescent tablets, porcelain
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
Yeast Coast Bowls
WHAT KUKA DOES: using a magnet, it unlocks valves on vessels holding the components, which then fall into the vessel. It moves the vessel with a fork and mixes the components with a whisk. It pours the mass into a preprepared gypsum mould.
HOW: tools attached to the robot: one by one, the magnet, fork and whisk unlock the containers, move and mix the mass. The material is chemically active in the pre-firing process of mould drying.
Designers
Bowls was created by Zuzanna Hofman, Pola Kołodziej, Piotr Kasprzak, Michał Krupowicz, Mikołaj Markowski - 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).