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KSA
KSA Update
December 2022
n 2021 the KSA embarked on a project
to engage the minds and imagination of
Idesign students, and to ignite in them a
passion for kitchen design as a specialised
sector of design. In collaboration with the
IID we reached out to tertiary institutions
offering interior design qualifications. On
assessment of what was being offered as
far as kitchen design was concerned, we
realised that there was much we could add and equip them with knowledge and skills
to help build a better understanding of the
technicalities of kitchen design, as well as
build the understanding of material and We started in 2021 with eight
costings. tertiary institutions. In 2022 we had 10
As such the KSA’s Kitchen Design institutions with 16 campuses sign up
Project was developed. It’s aim: to give the
students a true kitchen design experience, students opt to take on the project for
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special credit. The projects are marked
that could make them viably employable by the lecturers and then submitted to the
in the kitchen industry. KSA, for constructive critical comment.
Each submission is carefully reviewed by
the KSA and given in-depth feedback that
will hopefully aid the students to celebrate
for the project. Second and third year their successes and unpack their mistakes,
learning from them. Assessment of the
seventy projects submitted to the KSA
this year was completed in November,
and we have been thrilled to honour the
Jo-Anco Esterhuizen top five candidates.
In 2021 the students were challenged to
take on one of two design briefs. The first
was to design a kitchen made up of cost-
effective adaptive furniture, that would
allow an RDP housing space to move easily
from a kitchen to learning to living space.
Here it was vital the students focused on
cost effective materials and construction.
The challenge was to accomplish good
adaptive design at an affordable price. The
second brief was to design for a middle-
income family whose ailing mother had
moved in with them. The kitchen had to
be hard-wearing, and the design had to
facilitate the projected deterioration of the
mother’s mobility, strength, and reach.
Our 2022 briefs focused more on
construction challenges. The first brief
Celuxolo Mndletshe
was for a retiring couple buying an older
heritage house. They wanted to upgrade
the kitchen to embrace their love of a
modern aesthetic while retaining and
respecting the original features of an old
coal stove, bay windows and pressed steel
ceilings. Here the students needed to
marry the old with the new harmoniously,
and research how to work with pressed
steel ceilings, what type of coal stove
might have existed in the timeline of the
original home, and how to incorporate
the stove's features. Incorporating the
bay windows while still facilitating access