Finding a Grad Project

I had been mulling over topics and themes, problems and opportunities, products and systems to tackle an 'interesting' Grad project. During Christmas break I brainstormed a few titles with my roommates:

- Tableware for baby animals (to create awareness).
- The relationship of bottles through our lives; from birth to the end.
- Tableware for experienced based eating (continuation of last semester)
- Table Talks: encouraging interaction at dinner through objects.
And there were a number of others.

While I was thinking about the above opportunities, I was also considering mundane elements of domestic objects. Like legs and feet of tables, chairs, stools, lamps etc. What is their relationship to the objects and to the space they dwell in. This got me thinking to the objects themselves and to a few questions kept coming up:

1. Why will I be making this object/ objects?
2. Who will this object/intervention be for?

And still I did not get anywhere.

Then I started looking at some past projects and charettes I participated in. A day long project, at which the theme was to design the modern dining table, seemed fruitful enough to appropriate the idea and develop it as a term long Grad project.