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“THE PErSON WHO BuyS A
KITCHEN IN TEN yEArS...
WIll EMBrACE ANyTHINg
WE INCOrPOrATE INTO
IT THAT WIll gIvE THEM
MOrE FlExIBIlITy AND
CONvENIENCE”
design trends, consumer performance find that elusive cooking ingredient.”
expectation, environmental requirements, Kitchen-smarts will become far more
lifestyle evolution and polarisation common, he adds. “The person who
between some consumers requiring buys a kitchen in ten years will have had
total control and others relinquishing a mobile phone at age ten, will have
responsibility to their appliance, drives completed their first piece of homework
our creativity,” says Hasuike. using the Internet and will have used a
Here is where new adaptive social networking site to communicate to
materials and controls may help, able friends. They will embrace anything we
to accommodate users in a range from incorporate into the kitchen that will give
beginner to expert, through the emergence them more flexibility and convenience.”
of some very familiar substances. For all the technology innovation
“There is a big discovery of glass in now and yet to come, one thing cannot
our industry,” says Finetto, “and glass be overlooked, however: “Performing the
gives a lot of opportunity for interaction. basic function for which a product was
Through glass you can use touch control intended is the most basic expectation of
more than knobs and buttons, and today any consumer,” says Hasuike.
the quality of touch control is much There may be many unconvinced
better than a few years ago. All these about the sense of an oven-fridge, on
protruding parts will disappear – you will this basis. But when seeking out solutions
have a piece of glass you can touch and to the complex problems of modern
activate in a simple way fully integrated living, designers must make numerous
into the design.” bold moves in order that a few good
With such new materials and controls, ideas will survive.
Hasuike expects appliances that will So in the next ten years, where will
blend seamlessly with the kitchen. “An designers concentrate their efforts? Mark
oven with piezo-electric glass that Elmore, Head of Industrial Design at New
is opaque but turns clear at a voice Zealand’s Fisher and Paykel, says the
command when you need to check on challenge is to reduce how much of our
your cooking – this would be a real step world’s precious resources are consumed:
forward. Or kitchen cupboards with the “Scarcity of food, energy and commodities
same technology, so you don’t have to will drive our focus on simple, useful,
open every door each time you want to efficient designs that endure.” designer
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