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17-25 October 2026

The Spoon Press

An interactive pop-up invites visitors to shape raw materials into utensils, reconnecting them to a design process hidden by mass consumption.

Hosted by Caveat

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Entrance fee

DDW ticket required

Event type

Exhibition

Accessibility

Tactile
Dogs are allowed
Free wifi available
Toilets available
Partially wheelchair accessible

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The Spoon Press
The Spoon Press
Alessandro Pagura
Detached from how things are made in an age of mass consumption, people rejoin the design process at the Spoon Press. By making and testing gelato spoons, visitors prove that good design is not just seen, but made, felt, and experienced.

Experiential Micro-Factory

The Spoon Press is a pop-up that brings the public into the act of making. In an age of mass consumption, production is often obscured behind packaging and polish. Here, visitors shape and press stainless steel into a spoon — engaging a process typically reserved for controlled industrial contexts. Custom-built machines reveal the mechanics of metal forming, translating pressure, leverage, and tolerance into a performance. As participants transform a flat sheet into a contemporary utensil, they gain a tactile understanding of manufacturing. Each spoon becomes both outcome and evidence: that design is not only seen, but made, felt, and experienced.

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About Caveat

Caveat is a multidisciplinary design practice based between Eindhoven and Singapore, working in the cross-section between Graphic and Industrial Design. Through deep intentionality and a penchant for conceptual brevity, we produce work that is shaped by innovation and restraint, and designed from the inside-out.

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