The Way of Nordic Tea
A fusion between Scandinavia and Japan
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Case.
Industrial Design.
Student project.
2019.
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Team.
Natalie Bhanji.
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My role.
Discovery/ Development.
The Swedish hearable tea meets the Japanese traditional tea ceremony to encourage local production and to reduce the environmental impact. The result of the project was a series with a teapot, teacups and two tea infusers (in different sizes to fit the aforementioned). The transparency of the glass lets the user witness the beautiful process of the tea dancing in the water during the brewing, letting the user create the perfect cup of tea.
Research.
Tea is one of our most beloved beverages but the environmental impact of the linear system of using, producing tea bags and shipping them across the world is too large. This project has excluded large parts of the emissions of CO2 from production of tea bags. The goal of excluding the linear system of tea bags is achieved by a circular system of products, adapted for the use of local herbal tea and encouraging the recycling of the tea itself as well as local production.
“How may I create a way of brewing tea that excludes the linear system of tea bags and instead use products with a circular system adapted to the use of Swedish herbal tea and local production? ”
Development.
Result.
