Seedless Fruit
We have tamed nature into our fields, domesticated it into our gardens, let it enter the urban landscape and the interior of our city homes. Now, how, — as we leave the permanent home, merge into a state of flux between temporary spaces of living, working, connecting — how do we render nature into the picture? Will it accompany us outside again to offer itself to us as we walk the street, pass through the metro station, catch the bus and pick, plug, harvest and enjoy the fruit of tomorrow?
Seedless Fruit is a series of artefacts containing shape studies in plaster merging existing fruit and vegetable types, documentation of harvesting postures and a 5-course meal to be harvested from designated food objects, and Seedless Fruit, the next generation of fruit designed on the basis of natural growth patterns and consumer data.
Seedless Fruit is a year-long design research project as part of the 100 Product for 2050 project with the tutors Eric Klarenbeek and Maartje Dros at DAE.
Analysis of natural growth and rotting processes of common fruit and vegetables
3D-printed Seedless Fruit, the next generation of fruit designed on the basis of natural growth patterns and consumer data
3D-printed Seedless Fruit, the next generation of fruit designed on the basis of natural growth patterns and consumer data
The Publication Seedless Fruit showing »Sea Salt Pastry layered with ceramic slabs« as part of the Food/Material Series that incorporates the picking and plugging moments of harvesting into a 5-course meal
Movements and body postures in the harvesting of different fruit and vegetable types
Shape studies in plaster merging existing, naturally grown fruit and vegetable typologies. (Photography by Niclas Ekwall)
Publication Seedless Fruit including a series of interviews with several local Dutch chefs on the topic of synthetic optimisation of food crops
»The melong is a fruit grown in 5 hours and 35 min- utes. Beginning from 1 to 2 a.m. in different time zones slightly varying due to their urban context, movement can be noticed on the drop-like nozzle tip of the stem. Descending from the ceiling of the tram stop, the manufacturing plant produces a soft-tex- tured blob. It fills with a juicy, fibred liquid, thicken- ing as it runs down the soft interior of the fruit.«
Excerpt from the publication Seedless Fruit
3D-printed Seedless Fruit, the next generation of fruit designed on the basis of natural growth patterns and consumer data
3D-printed Seedless Fruit, the next generation of fruit designed on the basis of natural growth patterns and consumer data
Publication Seedless Fruit giving an insight into the development towards the next generation of fruit tailored to meet improved efficiency and consumer data
The Publication Seedless Fruit showing »Baiser creme elevated on metal cloud« as part of the Food/Material Series that incorporates the picking and plugging moments of harvesting into a 5-course meal
The Desert »Dark Chocolate Splits Coating Flexible Acrylic Tubes« as part of the Food/Material Series that incorporates the picking and plugging moments of harvesting into a 5-course meal
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