Locally Focused Visionary Tableware

IKEA's experimental design lab SPACE10 works in collaboration with creative product company oio studio on the Products of Place map. It is designed as a means to highlight the perspective of how tableware is made in different places. It highlights locally abundant materials in the interactive map, allowing users to showcase how the plates could be manufactured within 140 regions.

It uses resources that would normally be tossed away or would otherwise become excess supply. SPACE10 explains that “Nature doesn’t ship worldwide. Each bioregion is the product of a unique recipe—variations in sunlight, soil type, rainfall, and predator hierarchies inform what plants and animals call a place home.” It continues, “AI enables designers to quickly attune to what is already at their fingertips—to create more meaningful objects with fewer product miles, lowering the emissions of the things that make our homes."

Image Credit: oio, SPACE10