World-Food Waste Teahouse
Tea house pavilion
[World Food-waste Teahouse] is a series of Teahouse installations that is built with Food-waste material and designed to be positioned in different parts of the world. The project seeks to address the problem of abundance of food-waste across the world and propagates the investigation of using Food Waste as building materials. The project was developed with key motivations of Respecting Local Context, Universality and Circularity. 2 installations have been completed in 2023, VENETI-AN in Venice, Italy and ARABI-AN in Dubai, UAE.
iF Gold Statement
Any botanist will tell you that there’s no such thing as a weed, just a plant out of place. Similarly, what constitutes waste is entirely a matter of perspective. This beautiful lattice structure made entirely from food waste serves practically as a tea house and conceptually to provoke thought and discussion on the nature of waste and how best to manage it. Food for thought!
Client / ManufacturerDesign
European Cultural Centre
Venice, ITDubai Design Week
Dubai, AEMitsubishi Jisho Design
Tokyo, JPTakaaki Fuji, Hiroya InageMitsubishi Jisho Design Asia
Singapore, SGDe Yuan Kang, Vibha Krishna KumarDate of Launch
2023
Development Time
up to 6 Month
Target Regions
Africa, Asia, Australia / Oceania, Europe, North America, South America
Target Groups
"Global public audience"