Stekkebeen is a custom-made knife for everyday tasks.
The handle of the stekkebeen is the leg of a gallus domesticus.
Stekkebeen is proposed as a life-bringing tool to cut and cook, with an object that embodies the life taken to make this knife.
Considering sustainability, climate change, and limited material resources as our challenges for the near future, we must develop intriguing ideas that motivate us to change our behaviour and outlook on our future on this finite planet.
Solutions such as using renewable materials, biodegradable materials, recycling, repurposing, and reusing our materials are already apparent in response to these concerns.
For this reason, Stekkebeen is a way of looking at daily cutlery tools in a different light. What if we optimised gallus domesticus limbs from slaughterhouses instead of discarding the wasted material?
What kind of behaviour would appear at our dinner tables, such as being confronted by eating our chicken wings with the chicken's legs? Would this make any changes to the way we see our daily meat consumption? Is using chicken limbs a solution to our finite steel, iron and silver mines? Can a gallus knife be integrated into Western culture? Would decaying, renewed materials be the better alternative to our unsustainably managed, finite mines? Is there any way we can appreciate and accept decay in design? Is design from death part of our solutions to tackle our Anthropocene issues?
All these questions come to mind with this one innocent kitchen knife. But maybe we shouldn’t criticise solutions and test them to reflect on the results.
Would you prefer the optimisation of already slaughtered white meat and leave aside your disgust to have a happy meal?
