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Ripe is a product and service design solution promoting seasonal eating for students. Each year thousands of people enter their first year of university excited, nervous and utterly unaware of what the next 3+ years can bring to them. It is the stage of life where people leave home and normality, to become independent and create a world which they want to live. The student years will bring you happiness, chaos, stress and a whole bag of emotions, sometimes not knowing how to grow both with your self and how to look after yourself. On the first day, you will have your hands full of publications of services which can help you through university life whether that is through sports societies, self-help communities or maps on the town/city you have entered. Through all the craziness people tend to forget the importance of food and how this can impact your life at university.

    So therefore Ripe is a service which will be provided from the first day to the last day of university and hopefully affects your life after. It will encourage healthier, cheaper and seasonal eating. Throughout we will be inviting you to embrace the untranslated Spanish delight of Sobremessa which means “time spent in conversation, digesting, relaxing, enjoying. Certainly not rushing. Not reserved for weekends — though it can be longest on Sundays — even weekday and business meals have sobremesa. For Spaniards, how we eat is as important as what we eat.”We will help guide you in areas which can make students life, that little bit easier. From encouraging you to eat with your housemates to connecting with the community around you.

Illustration of me is drawn by amazing illustrator Tess Smith-Roberts. Thank you for all the tea breaks, late nights and listening to crime podcasts with me!

 

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