A lot of things get thrown away too early – consequent on the lack of access to easy level repair. This project is an investigation into everyday kitchen appliances and the meaning of construction and production methods. It imagines a fictional object world as a hypothetical idea to challenge obsolescence.
Point of departure was the idea to minimize the discrepancy between the durability of an object and the time it is actually used.
About 100 years ago, the standardization of components – and subsequently modularity – emerged in the industries, yet it never fully found the way into our kitchens and living rooms. Rather, it is made more and more difficult to repair objects that break, with components designed to break earlier than others, encouraging disposal and re-buying.
Why is there no open modularity? The first object of Everyday-Use Utopia is a conceptual kettle that suggests an alternative to the current system. A kettle as a comprehensible build offering easy access to low-level repair. The radical approach follows the boundaries of capitalism, but rather than promoting complete and unnecessary disposal, it suggests the replacement of single components.