Moment explores how workplace coffee rituals can be redesigned to support wellbeing, critiquing ‘hustle culture’ and ‘the grind.’
Responding to poor-quality office coffee and unbalanced access to meaningful breaks, it proposes a personal, portable, single-serve, desktop coffee maker. Using the pour-over method, it enables, like the pomodoro method, short, mindful pauses throughout the workday, grounded in principles of cognitive detachment for truly restorative breaks. Like a smoke break, coffee, too, can become a mindful, sensory escape from office life.
Using the Loth spoon requires total stillness to achieve the right balance and weight, and the pour-over uses concentric circles of pouring to correctly agitate the coffee.
The outcome reframes coffee-making as a deliberate, sensory ritual, where the process of making itself, and the physical relocation, getting up from one’s desk, rather than the drink alone, becomes the primary source of value.
