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The Ritual of Fika<\/h2>\n

The Ritual of Fika explores how everyday rituals can encourage presence and connection in an increasingly distracted society. Through a phenomenological lens, it examines how design can facilitate conscious encounters and an embodied experience. Often reduced to a quick break, fika is presented here as a meaningful ritual with the potential to strengthen our relationships with each other and with what we do.<\/p>\n

The project draws inspiration from Japanese tea ceremonies, Swedish fika traditions and the use of rituals to frame the ordinary. Through tactile materials, low seating and a fika ritual, visitors are invited to slow down. The ritual is intended to facilitate community, listening and used as a kind of quiet resistance to the pace of contemporary life.<\/p>\n

The Ritual of Fika is an exploration of form and function that transcends the practical. It reminds us that design can support the human experience by deepening what we already do, rather than by streamlining it. What happens when we allow ourselves to pause? Can a coffee break reconnect us with what otherwise passes us by?<\/p>\n

Many thanks to my collaborators and sponsors for their help with this project.<\/em>
\nSpecial thanks to Ida-Maria Wiik Eliasson for collaborating on the ceramics.<\/em>
\nElmo Leather for sponsoring the leather.<\/em>
\nM\u00f6belstudion Stockholm for sponsoring the foam.<\/em><\/p>\n

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