Silentware dinner set

sIGNAL BLOCKING stoneware

Our current relationship with our omnipresent tech devices has come with some frightening side effects, stifling our abilities to fully connect with those immediately around us and creating barriers between us and our physical environments. Technology is reprogramming traditionally private spaces of personal reflection and sacred connection such as bedrooms, restaurants, bars, and dinner tables into public all-purpose forums of work and socialization where one is never alone with oneself or another. The loss of these silent spaces of repose and human connection limit impromptu creative interactions with others and introspective moments with ourselves that we desperately need for our human well-being. Our individual will-power seems to be losing the battle. 

Using Faraday cage technology to to create “technologically silent” repositories for our devices under our dishes, the Silentware Dinner Set helps us regain the intimacy and human connection of our traditional meal spaces by giving us back some control over our devices and quieting the external chatter of technology that we automatically reach for in any silence.

The underside of the stoneware dinnerware is lined in woven cell signal-blocking silver mesh fabric that, when placed on the matching placemat, creates a conductive loop of electrons that disrupt signals entering or exiting the sealed area. This (signal free) Faraday cage is perfect for you to store your phone and smart watch under for an uninterrupted meal. The impressions left in the dishes give a comforting hint at our silenced devices below easing any feelings of technological nakedness and allowing us to more fully engage with our immediate environment.

The modular dinner set is fully interlocking and stacks as a single set for storage ease.

Standard set includes; 4x Dinner plates, 4x Salad plates, 4x Bowls, and 4x snack/sauce plates

human electronics project

Silentware is part of an ongoing project by MM Design called the Human Electronics Project.

The Human Electronics Project is an ongoing series of prospective and built products that explore our physical, psychological, and spacial relationships with technology through a lens focused on human connection, well being, and a more full sensory engagement with our world.

For inquiries contact michael Mannhard at mmannhard@gmail.com