"Did anyone smell their spoon? Did anyone put the spoon in their mouth? or draw the spoon?" After the participants were convniced that they had described the spoon as much as they could, John Caruso, professor at Notre Dame asked them further questions to truly get a deeper understanding of the spoon.
Generic table spoons were the point of departure for this brainstorming workshop. As the list became massive and the descriptions for a spoon seemed exhaustive, John Caruso started pulling out objects one by one and the audience debated to it's credibitlity to be called a "spoon". Ice cream scoops, serving spoons, ladels were pulled out to break out of the fixed idea of what is actually a "spoon".


John Caruso holds up a scoop with holes and asks what is a spoon?

Karl Williamson and Ryann Pajzko, third year design students from Millwaukee Institute of Art and Design analyze the 'spoon'.