Henrik Otto, Senior Vice President of Design at Electrolux will present an exciting new kitchen concept tomorrow, February 12, 2010 at the DesignBoost forum in Sweden. Henrik Otto will also be joined in a "Space for Life" seminar by Ineke Hans, Karim Rashid, James Irvine and Ross Lovegrove amongst others to discuss the role of design in realising the potential benefits of increasing global urbanisation.

Follow the seminar live from the Architecture Museum in Stockholm at ELECTROLUX DESIGN LAB from 14:40 CET.

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Here is how Faltazi describes this endeavour: Ekokook is about implementing a comprehensive prospective research project for eco-friendly habitat in the real world, the Faltazi Lab. We are trying to answer the question of how to introduce ecological projects into the home. How to upgrade existing housing without Advocating complete reconstruction. The obvious responses are those that use non-structural elements of living space (doors, windows, equipments ...), which can be mass-produced industrially and are simple to install. We focus on the material interfaces between habitat and external resources. Each wall, each balcony, each window, each door, each shutter can serve as a support for an eco-system. Each facility in interaction with external networks (sink drain, garbage receptacle ...) can be upgraded to produce an immediate eco-benefit. All the air, water, wind and sun that reach habitat must be seen as scarce resources to be captured and used. Each drop of water must be collected and used to the Utmost before being evacuated to external networks. Slowly but surely, the accumulated effects of these eco-benefits will change our environmental footprint for the better.

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Ekokook grew out of an experimental approach based on the analysis of the nerve center of every home, the kitchen. The place where we store food and prepare food, and produce and evacuate wastes is a vital core area for exchanges and convergences. It is also a place that generates all sorts of pollution. Which makes it the ideal focus for a study in eco-design.

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The idea behind this interactive kitchen guide from De Dietrich is to help those aspiring home cooks who have been searching of the simplest way to prepare dishes worthy of the greatest professional chefs. The Chef will open a whole new culinary world. It combines the recipe bank and handy kitchen scale with interactive cooking guide full of instructions and important details to take you throughout the preparations of the most intricate dishes. The Recipe screens grant you the freedom to try as many dishes as you wish, guiding you step by step whereas Communication screens let you talk to others through an Internet connection while an integrated web cam gives you live support and helps you observe what others are doing. It is like watching your favorite food network in real life with real home cooks like yourself. The Chef interactive kitchen guide will help your rediscover the pleasure of cooking and build long distance friendships based on common passion. Who knows, you may even discover that your neighbor next door shares them too. De Dietrich.

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