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IKEA HACKA by IKEA, IDEO and Lund University School of Industrial Design

IKEA HACKA is the future kitchen that bridges the gap between the hacking movement and the modular systems of today. Its flexibility helps people to create their own solutions, and makes it easy for them to “hack” it to suit their unique needs and style. The concept is currently exhibited at #IKEAtemporary in Milan.

Background

In 2013, IKEA started a project called “Concept Kitchen 2025” together with IDEO, Lund University School of Industrial Design and Eindhoven University of Technology, to explore how the kitchen of the future might look like. The students were asked to explore our behaviours around food and cooking - and envision the future kitchen built for those needs. One of the most obvious and growing trends that the Lund University students Linus Hagberg, Philipp Süssmann and Niklas Papen recognised was that people want to modify products to make them their own. People increasingly want to make their own solutions by hacking IKEA modular systems.

Designers:

Linus Hagberg

Philipp Süssmann

Niklas Papen

Supervision:

Lund University School of Industrial Design: Prof. Claus-Christian Eckhardt & Anna Persson, Lecturer

IDEO: Leif Huff, Managing Director & Martin Meier, Senior Design Lead

IKEA: Giorgia Nervi, Product Developer

Further Development with IKEA:

Anna Carlsson, Project leader

Jon Karlsson, Designer

Michael "Emerzon" Ekberg, Designer

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IKEA HACKA is the future kitchen that bridges the gap between the hacking movement and the modular systems of today. Its flexibility helps people to create their own solutions, and makes it easy for them to “hack” it to suit their unique needs and style. The concept was exhibited at #IKEAtemporary in Milan during the Milan Design Week 2015.

I am a big fan of IKEA kitchens. I’ve already done 3 of my own and I love not only how easy IKEA makes the whole process, but also how customizable and adaptable they are. IKEA is now taking that a step further while looking forward to the future. By asking questions about how we all will be living, cooking, eating in our homes in the future, IKEA is building a concept of future possibilities which will no doubt lead even more exciting options for making our kitchen the perfect-for-us place we want them to be. 

IKEA has set up #IKEAtemporary at the Milan World Expo, a temporary space to bring together those ideas and explore the possibilities. Their 2025 Concept Kitchen, created by students at Lund University and Eindhoven University of Technology, explores how bringing technology into the kitchen can make our daily cooking easier and more enjoyable, freeing up more time for living and enjoying life. IKEA HACKA is a kitchen that brings the IKEA Hack straight to IKEA itself with a simple modular kitchen that is meant to be personally customized to create a unique-to-you kitchen experience. And well, there’s more to come. For the next 6 months. IKEA has planned a full schedule of events, workshops, talks and cooking demos based around our lives in and around the kitchen.

If you can’t make it to Milan to visit the Expo, you can still be part of the conversation by visiting IKEA on Instagram, Facebook and Twitter at @IKEAtemporary. 

"Even more brainpower can only be a good thing. We want your thoughts, opinions and feedback on what we could improve. We believe it’s much better when you tell us how you want to live – and not the other way around. You could say that IKEA has the ingredients – but you have the recipes." - Marcus Engman, Design manager, IKEA of Sweden.

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