BentO Box
Dr Judith Glover
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Geographic location
Australia
Year
2019
Description
The piece ‘BentO Box’ was developed for a 2019 exhibition called ‘Pleasure’ at RMIT Galleries in Melbourne, Australia. The two sets of artefacts riffed off the off the concept of the bento box exploring the possibilities of ritualized and slow sex through the act of slow food. The boxes contained each a Goldfrau porcelain dildo in a leather case, a set of 2 chop-sticks crafted from an Australian timber called She-Oak and a set of porcelain tableware—a small platter for delicate morsels, two cups for tea or something stronger and a jug for saki or olive oil (my favourite lube).
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Acknowledgements
She-Oak chopsticks by Margaux Hayes
Biography
Dr Judith Glover is an award-winning design researcher, educator and Industrial Design practitioner at RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia. Her PHD thesis “Taboo to Mainstream” on the sex toy industry explored the technical capabilities that Industrial Design process and methods could offer in improving manufacturing and design quality for the sex toy industry. It also explored how gender and sexuality notions are embedded within mass production to explain the lack of suitability of products for contemporary women and how Industrial Design process and methods are an important part of changing industry standards.