Food Design Small

Food as a Design Object

More than a thousand times per year, before every meal, people select, cut up, heat, mix and combine, and thus design raw materials and basic products for dishes and foods. What are the steps in the design process of treatment, and how associated decisions proceed from the selection of a food, to defining it as an eating object, all the way to consumption?

This book investigates where the forms of what we eat come from, which factors play a role in their design, and how eating objects also function as signs that convey their contents and meanings. The goal of this book is to expand and reflect upon our knowledge about the origin, content, and meaning of eating objects.

• First publication on the theory of food design
• Development, history, tasks, and goals of food design as a research discipline
• Analysis of eating objects according to design semantics

Sonja Stummerer studied architecture under Hans Hollein at the Vienna University of Applied Arts before graduating with honors. She received her degree as a "Master of Architecture" from the London Architecture Association. Sonja Stummerer works for Arata Isozaki & Associates in Tokyo, and she is a state approved and certified civil engineer. She has also written and published a number of essays, reports and interviews. Martin Hablesreiter studied architecture under Hans Hollein at the Vienna University of Applied Arts before graduating with honors. He works for Arata Isozaki & Associates in Tokyo, and has written and published a number of essays, reports and interviews.They work together and are known by the name of "honey and bunny productions."