Salad Cup
I am investigating the process of meal prep and how it can encourage consumers to make healthier choices. I am designing a compact salad storage system for young professionals who struggle to make healthy food choices at the workplace due to lack of time available to think about their food consumption, using New Yorkers as a case study. This design will transform the way consumers think about meal prepping food such as salads to work as they usually take up a lot of space during transportation and become soggy over time. By creating a compact “rehoc” salad container (an “adhoc” inspiration from New Yorkers holding coffee cups on their way to work), This solves the problem of the consumer’s meal-prep container taking too much space, and encourages the target consumer to be more conscious about their choice of food throughout the work week. The container should have some insulation to keep the vegetables fresh, making the meal more appealing to the consumer.
To design a portable salad container that encourages working age consumers to make healthier choices during their work day.
Ad Hoc = “For This”
Re Hoc = “Again This”
Ad Hoc is a method that allows designers to identify and learn from previously unrecognized solutions. The concept of Ad Hoc began with the idea of “what they did not have, they could make - and what they had could improve upon”, which leads to an era of DIY trend following the Second World War which allows consumers to save money, labor, and time.
The concept of ‘Adhocism’ can be applied to many aspects of life with the purpose of increasing purpose and utility by using available systems in a new way to solve problems quickly and effectively.
Re Hoc
After learning to improve existing systems quickly and effectively with Ad Hoc, the process “Re Hoc” then allows designers to use the knowledge gained from those Ad Hoc solutions to develop products that solves that particular problems through better design.
