HAD-459P Kitchen: History of Space, Food & Design
3 Credits
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HAD-459P-01
Monday
5:30 pm â 8:20 pm
North Hall, 107
The course explores the complex history of the kitchen, its reception, utilization, and design, through a global lens from the 19th century to the present. Exploring changing kitchen tools, appliances, utensils, building materials that follow fashionable trends along with perception of food, the course aims to analyze the kitchen as a loaded space at the intersection of various disciplines from biopolitics to health and hygiene. The kitchen also brings different design efforts (such as architectural, industrial and interior design) and technologies (such as electricity, gas, plumbing, electronics and smart technologies) together. This course explores major historical, disciplinary, and theoretical themes that have a direct impact on kitchen design and associated products.