What if dinner was psychological warfare?*
*This is an AI-aided project
WHO?
College project
CATEGORY
Speculative Design
SOFTWARES USED
DelightEx edu, SketchUp, Gemini, Eleven Labs
AT A GLANCE
The project imagines a kitchen where everyday appliances become overly emotional and self-aware. What starts as routine cooking turns into absurd chaos. Each appliance reflects a human flaw, turning the kitchen into a stage for dysfunction. Beneath the humor, the story explores our emotional dependence on technology and the loss of control when our creations start to feel more than we do.
THE USE OF AI
- ChatGPT for idea development and brainstorming artifacts
- Gemini, Claude and Lovable to experiment with different types of artifacts.
- Suno.ai and Eleven Labs for dialogues and sound tracks
FRAMEWORKS USED
- The future wheel to explore first, second, and third order consequences of emotionally sentient kitchens across social, technological, psychological, political, environmental, and economic domains, developing the concept further.
- The future triangle to identify the strongest push, pull, and weight shaping this speculative future, grounding the absurdity in emotional technologies and social behaviors.
- Artifact led speculation helped me translate this abstract future scenario into tangible and experiential artifacts, making the concept easier to visualise.
THE CORE ARTIFACT
The core artifact was an interactive speculative experience where users encountered a kitchen in emotional chaos.
Each appliance responded unpredictably; refusing tasks, arguing, or acting out forcing users to navigate frustration, humor, and empathy. The artifact transformed an ordinary kitchen into a living ecosystem of moods and dysfunction, reflecting the absurd consequences of giving machines too much personality through augmented reality.
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Some artifacts ideas created using AI
