Colored eras are the new future?

A cozy evening with your loved one on the couch. Opening your shared box from KFC and looking romantic in each other’s eyes while chewing on your chicken bones. #Relationshipgoals if you ask me!” Also, imagine that when you’re done with chewing off the bits from your chicken bones that these are nicely colored. You could use these bones for decoration (How weird this is…). Or for your dog who can have the leftovers from the bones.

Food designer Marije Vogelzang:

Food designer Marije Vogelzang describes how the division of food is so inconsistent. (Vogelzang, M. (2017). One part of the world can barely feed their community while the other part has an overload of food. If the amount of food consumption will go on like this, we won’t eat the stuff we can eat right now. Think about the meat industry which is getting drained by each day. ( Krijger, A. (2018). Or all the plastic in the Atlantic Ocean which kills a lot of sea animals, and the ecological and biological circle is getting disconcerted.

History with a cool color? Mrs. Vogelzang came at the idea to give our food a color. At the Dutch Design Week, she showed some chicken bones with a pink color. Imagine this; While eating the shared box with your beloved one, the bones of your KFC chicken has a bright color! Maybe pink, or yellow? It’s a new experience while eating your food but from the same time it can help our future to understand things about the twenty first century.

A lot of the excess food, which aren’t that easy to break off, could get a color so the earth would be ‘layered’ with different era’s. As I already said it would be easier to differentiate but also help with recognize eating or different sorts of consumer’s behavior. This is interesting for the future, so they can fully understand the past and make a right image about the specific era.

But what now?

A mega trend at this point is Industry 4.0. In simple words this just means that this trend is about automation and data exchange in manufacturing technologies. (Wikipedia. (n.d). A macro trend coming from Industry 4.0 is 4D printing. The difference between 3D printing and 4D printing is that 4D printed objects reacts to the environment. Why would it be a solution to involve 4D printing into these pink bones?

As we know the meat industry is getting exhausted. To make a change we could combine 4D printing and the pink bones (or better said, chickens). When these pink bones are dogged up they could be 4D- printed. After this the bones, will have flesh from (by example chicken) and because the 4D printed chicken bones will react to their environment, the taste will be the same as real meat. The meat industry will get intact again after maybe years of not being able eating meat. (The Green Creator. (2018). They would get an impulse and people wouldn’t be dependent anymore from chemical unhealthy substitutes.

The most recent research shows us that in The Netherlands 70.000 people are vegan. (Vivalasvegas. (2017). The reason why is that people mainly find it very disrespectful to slaughter animals for own use. But not only for the meat, also for clothes/shoes or other dairy products. By getting vegan, this group of people wants to ‘save’ the meat-industry but especially the ecological climate.

Misconceptions avoided with a cool color!

Imagine your great- great- great- great grandchild sitting behind his or her display while his/her teacher tells live through skype about the objects with a cool color about our era. Would it not be so much more trustable to have bones which are conserved in such a way that every detail is intact? Misconceptions would be something from the past, and conflicts between groups of people or ethnical races could be reduced! Beside the fact that the future would have more specific information about our era, it would be great that the human society would have the option to eat meat again. 4D printing could be the solution for the drained meat industry. The most interesting part of the 4D printing is that the taste of the meat will be the same so people won’t notice the difference.

The future potential of these kind of bones could have a big part in the future society. Think about transparency, the future society wants to know and understand almost everything. Not being able to have fully access to certain information can cause friction between the inhabitants of a country and their government.

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