Precious Kitchen
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Precious Kitchen is an online portal that references the resources available on the territory. These materials, wastes, coming from industrial and artisanal production flows, can be valorized and have a creative second life. Precious Kitchen provides educational resources for the discovery of material design, to test the creation of reused materials. Conferences, workshops, installations and exhibitions also animate the life of the project.
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Summary
Precious Kitchen, the first open source platform dedicated to the valorisation of local resources for new uses.Re-use of materials for cultural events, use of plastic scraps for contemporary creation, valorization of food waste, new scenarios of eco-fabrication for artists, support of partner companies and creation of unique objects or limited series...
Precious Kitchen is a 360° Upcycling experience, from mapping to sensibilisation, identification and qualification of available resources, through the setting up of material experimentation, shared workshops around artistic laboratory practices, creation and diffusion.This exchange platform - in which Art integrates the field of the circular economy - is developed in open source: the online portal allows to reference the resources available on the territory, as well as tutorials of recipes to make oneself, while its offline version is expressed in the form of workshops and masterclasses: Precious Kitchen establishes times of research and creation to test materials, share and transmit the new techniques generated and thus create an effective bridge with the business world, and that of the craft, in constant search of new creative and aesthetic experiences.
In September 2021 Precious Kitchen will inaugurate its first stand-alone physical place, in the center of Tours. In a 70 m2 "Chuthotèque" open to all citizens, members will be able to use the resources made available by the platform. In the same dynamic, the project aims to spread in a tentacular way on the French territory, and even in Europe by developing in Art and Design schools, third places and Fab Lab.
Key objectives for sustainability
Precious Kitchen works to establish loyal partnerships with companies that generate waste.
The mission of Precious Kitchen is to change the way companies and citizens think about waste. It is first of all to raise consciousness and to give information on the origin of the scraps: to put forward the know-how of the companies, their materials, their history. We also have the deep desire to save a maximum of waste from landfill by making these resources available to people.
By creating recipes for the transformation of materials, we expand the field of action of users and motivate creative and interdisciplinary productions based on the valorization of existing raw materials.This experimental approach of research through design, based on the exploitation of stable and sustainable deposits, allows the realization of innovative and sustainable projects.
Developed in an environmental ethic, even circular economy or EIT, Precious Kitchen is a real plus on the environmental impact that can induce artistic creation. The EIT, or industrial and territorial ecology, is the link between the "waste", outgoing, of some which becomes the "raw materials" and incoming of the second. The materials are thus used longer, leading to a decrease in their carbon footprint.
In the long term, new materials, or even use or recycling chains could be created and recognized in national waste management strategies.
The next step is to make Precious Kitchen an association of public utility in order to allow tax exemption for donations in kind and to encourage corporate sponsorship.
Key objectives for aesthetics and quality
Precious Kitchen's plateforme is first of all a total design project.
Thanks to its multidisciplinary team, composed of an author, a duo of material designers, a graphic designer and a set designer, Precious Kitchen aims to transmit the fundamental values of ecology through an educational and aesthetic approach.
Thanks to its distinctive graphic charter, the Precious Kitchen project wants to create an open source model that can be duplicated throughout France and Europe while maintaining a common identity.
After visiting the production lines of the partner companies and selecting the different types of materials, samples are given to the Set Designer Ella Perdereau.
Following a minimalist artistic direction, the incoming materials are highlighted by the photographic work. Precious Kitchen is convinced that it is necessary to change the consciences through the establishment of a playful and aesthetic pedagogy based on the experience and the do-it-yourself.
Through workshops given in Art and Design schools, the Precious Kitchen collective wishes to encourage future designers and artists to develop new methodologies of material transformation, aesthetics and plastics.Passing on to generate vocations among creative people and triggering desires for sustainable and alternative materials Material designers are the actors of change!
With more than twenty workshops given outside the studio, we have initiated more than 700 students to the process of revalorization through design.
Key objectives for inclusion
An open source platform
Precious Kitchen is an online portal that allows to reference the resources available on the territory in order to make them visible by all and for all. Precious Kitchen also provides educational resources to discover the material design, as well as tutorials to test yourself the creation of bio-polymers or reused materials.
Based on a vision of sharing information, "open source" the recipes of new materials are shared with other users on the platform.
Precious Kitchen is thus a platform for the diffusion of knowledge around material design: to allow to arouse vocations in the creative ones and to trigger desires of setting in sustainable and alternative materials are our leitmotiv!
Precious Kitchen also organizes conferences, workshops and master classes around the reuse of waste. These interventions highlight and put into practice scenarios of ecological transition, to renew our modes of consumption and production in the region. Precious Kitchen radiates through different restitutions, presentations and creations. Artists, visual artists, scenographers, designers, students, researchers and citizens...
The restitutions, whether they take place in art schools or in the heart of institutions, all have the same objective: to disseminate the practice of material design, its successes, its curious and plural approach.
Results in relation to category
Precious Kitchen is about fifteen partner companies, with a perspective of 40 companies in 2022With more than twenty workshops to its credit, the off-studio has initiated more than 600 students to the process of revalorisation through design.
Conferences
Precious Kitchen organizes conferences, workshops and master classes around reuse of waste: collection, scrapping, experimentation through cooking.
FranceDesign Week speaker, «Design and Materials: Making Materials Flow», and «Design and Supercycling: A new Design stream».
«Design Summit speaker» Paris.
«Turfu Festival» Valuation of leather scraps,Caen
«Human Tech Days» workshop at Art Centre Transpalette, Bourges.
Speakers at «Fashion Tech Days», Roubaix and Who’s Next, Paris Textile innovation
Workshop
Creation of bio materials from scraps / Beaux Arts / Angers
Recycling and ennobling of paper / Beaux Arts / Lyon
Creation of bio materials from scraps / Ensaama / Paris
Material Design: Recycled cellulose acetate / Camille Claudel / Blois
Recycling & Ennobling of paper /Creation of bio materials from scraps /Choiseul / Tours
Cours
Luxury Art & Design Workshop
Exceptional material & innovative materials
Créapole, Paris
Creation Ethics and Innovation Module
Luxury Materials & Biopolymers Research
Ecole Conte, Paris
Branding & Circular Economy
How Citizens benefit
Thanks to public events like "Human Tech Days", Precious Kitchen organizes opportunities to meet and exchange with the citizens.
These meetings around the Precious Kitchen platform and its users (local companies, craftsmen, designers, educators, teachers) allow to co-construct the project in order to allow more efficient and ergonomic uses.
Incubated in a Fab Lab ESS (Social and Solidarity Economy) the project benefits from a collegial and interdisciplinary reflection. Philosophers, makers, artists, designers, retirees, have contributed to the development of the common project: to save a maximum of sleeping materials from the landfill and to allow the greatest number of people to use noble and aesthetic materials.
Innovative character
Precious Kitchen was born from the meeting between Rebecca Fezard and Elodie Michaud, the two founders of the material design office Hors-Studio, and Catherine Lenoble, instigator of projects within La Fabrique à Usages Numérique, fablab based in Tours. By initiating this beneficial dialogue, a new perspective takes shape. That of a new tool, which would unite two worlds: that of the company - now immersed in the paradigm of sustainable development, of the management of its waste and scraps - with the creative world, the one that works the material, and explores its new plasticity.
It is also to combine doing and thinking through a 360° experience. Thanks to an exploratory narrative approach, the Precious Kitchen collective leads collective and critical investigations around resources with students and citizens. Thus we propose collective moments to discuss, share and manufacture the imaginary and the productions of new materialities.
