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Topoware is a tableware collection that questions the landscape of dining. Taking inspiration from the recent popularity of geography as a media of communication and more specifically with topographic maps, which define heights of a landscape two dimensionally, Topoware in turn, "outlines" the dining experience.

Made up of cups, plates, bowls, placemats and a tablecloth, the collection explores the visual and social landscape of dining by using outlines and descriptions to describe, question and push our eating experience, making it really feel like a journey.

The designers are Alexandra Deschamps-Sonsino (Canada) and Karola Torkos (Germany), and an article by the former on the design process behind the collection was just published in Ambidextrous, the design journal of the Stanford d.school.