MObile KItchen

Universal Design, Aging in Place, Kitchen Triangle, Real World Observation and Research

MO:KI is a bespoke collection of modular units that push the boundary of the cooking experience and traditional work triangle. The modules highlight work zones for cooking, cleaning, and preparation demonstrating universality and flexibility for improved user experience. The free-standing, multifunctional MO:KI system is interchangeable and includes “point of use” appliances to maximize efficiency. The plug and play approach, a grid with custom pegs, provides endless options for reconfiguring hard and soft storage solutions with varied height work surfaces. Set on casters, the units mobilize to fluidly reset the cooking environment.

This was a multi-disciplinary project with students from RIT Interior and Industrial design. Collaboration of majors inspired unique design processes and led to new discoveries, observations, and research.

The MO:KI Installation was featured at ICFF 2019 in New York, NY and IDS in Toronto, Canada, January of 2020.