Louise Defaux

Playing with Food

Over time, tableware and dining objects have shaped codified gestures and eating habits. This project uses play as a starting point to rethink the act of eating, exploring it as a way of designing objects, their uses, and the interactions they create.
Through a series of vessels conceived around rules, constraints, and specific situations, the project investigates how form can slow down gestures, engage the body, and transform relationships between diners. The objects are no longer designed simply to contain food, but to encourage manipulation, anticipation, adaptation, and exchange.
Play thus becomes a tool for revealing our relationship with food, time, and one another, transforming the table into a space for sensory and collective experimentation, sometimes with a touch of absurdity.

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