DAE alumna Jihyun Ryou focuses on the food preservation. The Korean designer Jihyun translates traditional knowledge on food storage into contemporary design. She found the inspiration for her wall-mounted storage units while listening to the advice of her grandmother, a former apple grower, and other elderly. Her mission: storing food outside the refrigerator.
Jihyun Ryou studied the master programme Man & Humanity at Design Academy Eindhoven. In 2009 she graduated with this project about traditional oral knowledge which has been accumulated from experience and transmitted by mouth to mouth. Particularly focusing on the food preservation, it looks at a feasible way of bringing that knowledge into everyday life.
Through the research into the current situation of food preservation, Jihyun Ryou learned that people hand over the responsibility of taking care of food to the technology, the refrigerator. Through the objects of everyday life, design can introduce traditional oral knowledge into people’s lives through their experience of using it. Jihun says: “Objects make invisible knowledge evident”.
Jihyun Ryou about her storage solution for vegetables.