TAG – The history of cooking and eating utensils, and therefore of eating cultures, goes back as far as people have existed. People have shaped table utensils and these have shaped the community at the table and thus society. 

The project TAG researched eating cultures and developed table utensils that support exchange and connection at the table. The concept is to view eating together as an important social space and to revitalize the social aspects of eating through creative experiments and anthropological research. The aim is to question rituals and bring new perspectives to the table.

In this way, TAG opens up the view of an individual in the table community through a variety of serving or credenza options, be it fishing with a fork on the lifter or painterly application through the notches on the spoon. The table tools create the opportunity to experience eating together in a new way, leaving room for individual forms of expression and perhaps creating new rituals at the table.

Diploma thesis supervised by Prof. Jakob Gebert and Kai Linke in cooperation with Mono GmbH.

Winner 2024 Hessen Design Competition & Winner 2024 German Design Graduates