Sik-sa: Cross-Cultural Dining Experience, one the innovative projects on show as part of Dubai Design Week’s Global Grad Show, provides a fun, ready reference for when dining cross-culturally.
Sik-sa: Cross-Cultural Dining Experience, one the innovative projects on show as part of Dubai Design Week’s Global Grad Show, provides a fun, ready reference for when dining cross-culturally.
Sik-sa has been designed by Olivia Hwayoung Kim as a guideline for introducing the dining cultures of various countries to foodies, who wish to explore global foods but who are unsure of the ingredients and dining etiquette of new cultures that they experience.
More than just encouraging the eating of dishes from different countries, the project seeks to encourage, demystify and guide the overall experience of a new culture.
Olivia, who is a graduate of New York’s Pratt Institute, has created diagrammatic illustrations and especially designed dinner sets, including prescriptive place mats. Through Sik-sa the designer provides a comfortable condition in which to explore a new tradition and reflect on one’s own.
By approaching people through the universal experience of eating, this design leads users to understand, experience and to communicate with other cultures.
The Global Grad Show will take place in Building 6, Dubai Design District from 26 - 31 October. Open to public from 9am - 10pm.