Seeing as how my life is already starting to revolve around my graduate thesis project, I guess now is as good a time as ever to introduce you.
Thesis statement:
Comfort food brings families together while fostering healthy eating and behavioral habits.
Hypothesis:
As an interior designer, I believe that space can be used as an intermediary between food and family. By providing a solution with an environment to encourage traditions of healthy comfort food, family interaction, and the daily ritual of family mealtime, it will re-establish comfort food as a healthy family custom and practice on a day to day basis.
Design vehicle:
An environment where parents and children can learn to grow, cook, and eat together. This will include an on site restaurant where food will be prepared using garden ingredients and a market selling local food items. Membership capabilities will include partaking in the garden, cooking classes, and participation in food education programs. I will use design principles that take into account collective and overlapping space, as well as visual and hands on learning environments to help in the design on the space.
Building:
Building 125 in the Charlestown Navy Yard!
I will be sharing some inspiration photos for the design in the coming days, weeks, and months, but if you can't wait, click here to follow my Thesis Pinterest Board.