Kindness Catalyst | 善意催化劑

「善意是無形、看不見的美。」

生活在人與人相處形式有著巨大改變的時代，

我們相信，為他人著想、體貼他人而做的行為是善意，更是無形的美。

因此，「我們創造了一系列的善意催化劑，藉由設計物件的使用行為，

將無形的善意化為有形的餐桌互動，為人與人之間注入溫暖。」

“Kindness is an intangible, invisible beauty.”

In the age which interaction between people has a significant change, we believe that standing in other’s shoes and considering other’s feelings is an intangible, invisible beauty. Thus, we design the usage of series objects as catalysts to transform the intangible kindness into visible table interactions that warms up the relationship between each other.

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日常生活中的善意

Kindness in daily life

源自對生活的觀察，我們發覺人與人之間，常藉由微小的「行為」、身體語言，傳遞給他人細膩的感受。如在遞剪刀時會反向、握著刀鋒給予他人；搭乘電梯時，發現有人快趕不上，則幫忙按住門鈕、使門持續打開，這些行為常常只是一個微小且隨手的動作，但卻體貼、幫助了他人，讓對方有了好的感受。

受生活啟發，

我們相信，「為他人著想、體貼他人而做的行為是善意，更是無形的美。」

With observation, we found that people often deliver delicate feelings to others through tiny behaviours.

For instances, we would hold the sharp side as we giving scissors to others, we would stop the door when we see someone is rushing toward the elevator. Although these kinds of behaviours seem to be tiny and with no difficulty, these show consideration and help others in time, furthermore, deliver good feelings.

Inspired by life, we believe that "The behaviour of stand in other shoes and consider others feelings is an intangible, invisible beauty."

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產品設計新觀?

New perspective in product design?

細膩的身體語言、些微不同的行為，帶給了他人十分不同的感受，因此我們試圖將此思維應用至產品設計上。

「從行為到物件」— 不只是設計應用，而是設計意涵。

藉由物件誘發人的行為，傳遞對他人的善意。

如果將雨傘的把手從單人握持，改為可以兩個人同時握的把手，是否代表傘的意涵有所改變？即是認為多一個人、兩人一起撐傘是件正常的事，催化人們在雨天、他人需要時「幫忙撐傘」的行為？

抑或是讓坐椅的椅面空間是可分開、可擴增乘坐空間的，是否表示「坐位」是能與他人分享的？在一個坐位稀少的場域，人們願意與他人同坐一張椅子、分享坐位？

As we know that these tiny and delicate behaviours would give others very different but good feelings, we try to implement this idea on product design with a new thinking aspect.

"From behaviour to object."

We design not only objects' functions but also the connotation.

We trigger people to send good intentions by their behaviours through daily objects.

What if we change a normal umbrella into double handles? Is the meaning of "umbrella" alter? Maybe the double-handle one would let us take two people in one umbrella as a normal situation and stimulates people helping each other in the raining day.

Or what if we change a single chair to an extendable chair? Is that means the seat can share? Maybe the extendable one would trigger us to share the seat with others in a place which is lack of chairs.

於是，我們想創造物件，作為社會中的善意催化劑，搭建人與人間良好感受的橋梁。

Thus, we want to create objects as kindness catalysts in the society which build the bridge of good feelings between each other.

concept

「一系列為了善意而生的餐桌物件」

— 藉由創造行為契機，使人散發無形的美。

餐前—餐中—餐後

分別以三組餐桌物件，在原有的用餐行為上以不同手法創造契機，催化善意，使人們自然地做出某些行為，

將無形的善意化為有形的餐桌互動，讓一同用餐時的分享與互動行為更加優雅而自然。

"A sequence of tablewares come from the good intentions. "

- Through creating the motivation of behaviors to let people naturely show the intangible beauty.

Before- During- After the dining

With three different sets of tablewares, we create the motivations on the original dining behavior which prompting people to show their good intentions.

Let sharing and interactions during the meal become more elegant and nature.

It's not only a beauty of behavior but also a beauty of kindness in a sense.

花型瓶塞與冷水壺組

儀式性 / 外顯

以花形器具作為冷水壺瓶塞，以及倒水、分杯時使用。

藉由水杯架子與花形器具的設置，讓「倒水」行為如同儀式、表演般的優雅展現，人們將花由壺上拔起、放至架上，為他人倒水。水流順著花的造型緩緩流下、分成了四杯，最後將花內剩餘的水分至各杯中，一同飲用。

A flower-shaped lid with carafe

Elegant / Ritual / Explicit

We let pouring water as a ritual show by placing the flower-shaped lid and shelf.

The flower-shaped glass as a lid to the carafe, which is also used in pouring and distributing water.

People take the lid from the carafe to the shelf and pour the water into glasses for others. Water flows down slowly the edge of the flower and naturely splits into four glasses. The rest of the water in the flower would be distributed evenly and finally, people can have a glass of water in kindness.

旋轉盤與公用餐具組

體貼 / 內斂

一組可以旋轉、將公用餐具良好放置於上，與他人共食的餐盤。

藉由餐盤的「旋轉」以及餐具的放置讓「指向性」更為明顯，放大共食、與他人分享的意圖。

人們以公用餐具夾拾料理後，將餐具放於盤上溝槽，溫和、體貼地將餐盤轉向他人，邀請他人一同食用料理。

A Shared tableware with Rotatable plate

Rotation / Directivity /Implicit

A shared, rotatable plate that makes the cutlery could be well placed on it.

The rotate function and the directivity of cutlery exeraggate the sharing movement and intention.

People can place the cutlery on the edged ring of the plate and rotate it moderately to others.

Invite others to have the meal together.

水果盤與叉具組

偶然 / 傳遞

藉由「兩兩相扣」的水果叉，拿起一支叉具的瞬間、同時勾起了另一支，製造偶然、恰巧感。

於食用水果前，人們由罐中拿取了兩支水果叉，而自然地將多餘的叉具遞給他人使用。

Fruit plate and forks

Delivery / Coincident

The forks which is buckled up together make us to take two of them accidentally while we tend to take only one fork.

Naturely, people would deliver the rest of the fork to other by chance which also shows kindness at the same time.

People would take two forks from the bottle and naturely give other the rest of the fork before starting to eat the fruit.

我們期望藉由一系列的催化劑，將善意溫柔地注入日常，

讓為他人著想、體貼他人而做的行為持續發生，成為人與人之間柔軟的連結。

We expect that through this sequence of catalysts, the good intention, kindness will express moderately in daily life. Let considerate behaviors keep happening and become a soft substance between each others.