WHAT IS CULTURE?

Culture refers to a human-made environment which includes all the material and non-material products of life that are transmitted from one generation to the next.Culture denotes historically transmitted patterns of meanings embodied in symbols, by means of which people communicate, perpetuate and develop their knowledge about and express their attitudes toward life.

CULTURAL SETTING

MANIFEST

BELIEF

OBJECT

ELEMENTS OF CULTURE

Non material culture includes values, beliefs, symbols and languages that defines a society.

Material culture includes all the tangible objects

and materials in the society.

CULTURE

PUSH FORCE

PULL FORCE

PUSH FORCE

The force is considered any driving force to do the task. Any element as a part of cultural setting is a force. Culture also has form.
So if considering culture having a form, when any of the force is acting on the form; force could be pulling in or pulling out, the form changes.
This means when there is any force thats pulling in or pulling out there is a slight variation in the context of culture. The pulling and pushing effect causes culture change.

PULL FORCE

Object of Study : TIFFIN BOX

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Mapping the forces acting on the form.

500 forces that act upon the form in relevance to the cultural context.

Inter relation of forces

Secondary forces

Tertiary forces

Mapping the forces acting on The Existing Culture of Tiffin Box

What if tiffin box becomes a smart food assistant ?

- FUTURE WHEEL

Scenario -

SMART FOOD ASSISTANT - CUSTOMIZATION - DIET CONSCIOUSNESS - USER SPECIFIC DESIGN - HOME MADE FOOD

Smart food assistant becomes the device that measures the amount of calorie present in the content inside the lunchbox.In this way the tiffin box can be a very customised product and gives the user a strict supervision on the amount of calories they take as part of their daily meal.

As people are becoming increasingly aware of the importance of a healthy diet, the need for automatic food and drink recognition systems has arisen.Not only can such systems provide the automatic recognition of food and drink items, but they also can enable the estimation of their nutritional values, making them especially useful for dietary assessment and planning, which is applicable for patients with dietary restrictions, as well as for healthy individuals by preventing nutrition related conditions.

Final Concept:

HOW THE MODEL WORKS?