The IKEA X EINA Home Visits project is part of the IKEA Home Visits initiative, and offers students of the Bachelor of Design an opportunity to analyse the current situation in people's homes and to detect opportunities for improvement related to Sustainability, Health and Wellbeing.
From mid-August the project can be seen in IKEA shops in Badalona, Barcelona and Sabadell.
The project consists of two phases: the first, where students visit the kitchens of several houses and analyse their morphology, circuits, the elements that make them up and their location, among others. From these visits, the students draw conclusions about the degree of Health, Well-being and Sustainability that these kitchens have and, once they have been shared in the classroom with the rest of their classmates, they obtain a map of conclusions about everything that a kitchen should contemplate in order to contribute Health, Well-being and Sustainability to the daily life of those who live in them.
The in-depth collection of information that the Home Visits have provided the students with, makes them experts in Health, Wellbeing and Sustainability in the kitchen. Now it is time for each of them to design a proposal for the layout of a typical kitchen provided by IKEA for a specific user model. In this way, the students will be able to adapt the Health, Wellness and Sustainability requirements to the particularities of the user's life and design a kitchen that is optimally suited to the needs.
All the students' projects were presented to the IKEA managers so that their internal design team could choose the most interesting proposals for each kitchen and create the final version that will be available in all IKEA shops in Catalonia.
This project has allowed the students to apply the transversal concepts on Design, Health and Well-being that they have worked on in the subject in a specific space such as the domestic kitchen and to analyse the activities that are carried out with a view to people's health and well-being. They also learnt the importance of analysing situations before starting a design process and drawing conclusions to formalise their own briefings and design premises.
Students:
Inés Abad De Balanzó
Gerard Cabrera Pelegri
Krizia Marite Campos Castañeda
Héctor Hernández Guillén
Pol Julià López
Eduard Martinez Morillo
Paula Pastrana Durán
Eva Pau Bruach
Estel Puerta García
Marc Ruedas Castellanos
Xiangzhi Tong
Teachers:
Lena Macau Sanz
Albert Conejos Sandoval
Subject:
Optional 3rd and 4th year of the Bachelor of Design
Design, Health and Well-being