About the project
Minimizing waste is one of the main ways how designers can contribute to lowering the environmental impact of their products. Although there are many strategies around it, the most interesting one for us is rethinking the materials with which we are working. During the Distributed Design Residency, we tested a design principle of reusing prefabricated items as materials for building new designs. We have developed and prototyped a chair and a lamp using second-hand parts. The chair is made out of old slatted frames that were bent and put under tension to form a low lounge chair. For the body of the lamp, we used an aluminium profile found at a scrapyard. Another experiment targeted the waste produced in the local maker space – Happylab – specifically. We used the sawdust collected from the wooden workshop as a base for growing mycelium material.
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