PROJECT STATEMENT

This collection showcases Italian immigration to Brazil and its subsequent effects. We've chosen to tell this story through the path coffee takes from cherry to bean to a cup in your house. These ceramics are made to accompany the project that Rafa and Paxton did before us, showing the process of Italian integration into Brazilian spaces and culture.

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Churrasco

Ritxòkò

Churrasco is a Brazilian barbecue method that started around the 18th century, wherein gauchos would gather around open fires to grill or cut beef.

Made from a mix of clay and water, Ritxòkò are dolls made by indigenous women of Brazil that depict the human lifecycle as a way of transmitting info from generation to generation.

CULTURAL RESEARCH

BRAZIL

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SUNDAY BRUNCH

MAIOLICA

In Italian culture, Sunday brunch is a time to gather and connect with family. Exact meals vary from family to family, but most tend to follow a structure of 7 courses.

؜Traditional Italian Ceramics with colorful tin glazing. While the forms of the ceramics are simple. The detailed illustraitions and stories on the ceramics are what make them so unique.

CULTURAL RESEARCH

ITALY

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BRAZIL

ITALY

1. VIBRANT
2. EXPRESSIVE
3. NARRATIVE

1. INTRICATE
2. DECORATIVE
3. CLASSICIST

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APPETIZER

When Italians arrived in Brazil in the late 19th century, they were originally separated from the Brazilians that lived there. Italians were usually placed on coffee plantations as contract laborers. They lived in separate housing on the farms, often separated from native Brazilian workers or landowners. Italians also spoke a different language, which limited social interaction with native Brazilians.

Pao De Queijo originates in the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais. The cheesy bread balls are often served as a street food. Pesto Pao De Queijo is a mix of these bread balls and Italian pesto. This fusion is meant to represent the immigration of Italians to Brazil, where the Italians were separated from the Brazilians and not mixed in. To show this, we made the Pesto Pao De Queijo where the pesto is separated from the bread and not mixed in.

APPETIZER

PROTOTYPE

sketch

Digital Model

3D Printed Positive

Plaster Mold

APPETIZER

FABRICATION

ENTREE

Over time, Italians in Brazil gradually connected with Brazilians. Although they initially remained within their own communities, they eventually shared traditions, food, and farming techniques, largely through working together in industry. This dish represents that cultural integration by combining a traditional Brazilian shrimp dish, moqueca de camarões, with spaghetti, a staple of Italian cuisine. Traditionally served with rice, the dish replaces rice with spaghetti to symbolize the blending and assimilation of these two cultures. Both foods are comfort dishes in their respective countries.

The entree is moqueca de cameroes With speghetti, It is kind of supposed to be a stew. but it turned into more of a sauce. this dish was supposed to repressent gradual integrations of italians and brazillians.

ENTREE

PROTOTYPES

We started with a prototype that was supposed to show integration by carving maiolica and marajo inspired patterns into the rim of a plate.

sketch

؜BUt like mentioned before we needed to bring this design back to the idea of coffee. before this was coffee cherries and next is coffe beans. So we adjusted the shape to resemble a bean

Digital Model

3D Printed Positive

Plaster Mold

ENTREE

FABRICATION

DESSERT

The dessert consists of Brigadeiro De Tiramisu. This combination represents the fluidity between Italian and Brazilian culture that arose naturally after centuries of mingling together. The coffee in tiramisu symbolizes the labor Italians carried out on coffee plantations. Brigadeiro is a common street food in Brazil. Coffee plantations were a big thing when Italians immigrated to Brazil. It was a way to make money, pay off debt, and a good starting point for a life in Brazil. The only down side to coffee plantations was the land owners, they would take advantage of the Italians and target them to get free labor by putting them in a ton of debt by paying for their immigration.

DESSERT

PROTOTYPES

sketches of stacked cups

Digital Model

3D Printed Positive

Plaster Mold

DESSERT

FABRICATION

reprint the mold (use rough draft)

؜MOLD DIAGRAMS

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RENDERINGS

APPETIZER

ENTREE

DESSERT

C17B4F

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NEXT STEPS

Cast with slip

Add designs to dessert casts

Glazing

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