Besteck & Stigma

Thoughts on Disability and Design

Hendrik Lucka

September / September - 2023

Universität der Künste Berlin

Bachelor of Arts

Description

The project ‘Cutlery & Stigma’ explores the connection between design and disability. Cutlery was used to investigate how design can contribute to the stigmatisation of disability and why the topic of disability receives too little attention in product design. The result is a cutlery set that can be used equally by people with and without disabilities and therefore makes no distinction. The project should also serve as an impetus for discourse