About the project
Feel Refill is a sustainable furniture project of PROSTOR Studio (Maria Levitskaya & Daniil Chechin). It offers a design solution that aims to make garbage sorting more appealing and motivate people to act in everyday life. Feel Refill was designed as a stool with the additional function of storing bottles under the sitting surface. Eight bottles of 1-litre fit in between the openings created by the wave-shaped elements. The stool is compact and can be used as a sitting place anywhere in the apartment. For instance, you could place it in the foyer as a reminder to bring deposit glass or recycled goods to the collection point. MDF (Medium-density fibreboard) was chosen as the building material because of its versatility. The material is simple to process with different digital fabrication tools or using hand and power tools. It has a homogeneous structure and therefore it is possible to use a wide range of finishing techniques.
Feel Refill is a project shaped by a responsible consumption lifestyle. It is a stool with a bottle storage function under the sitting surface. Eight bottles of any regular size fit between the openings created by the wave-shaped elements. It serves as a reminder to bring deposits or recycled goods to the collection point. The stool is compact and can be used as a sitting place anywhere in the apartment.
“During the Distributed Design Residency at Happylab, we successfully produced 3 prototypes improving each variation in terms of the efficiency of material use, minimizing finishing labour and improving the design quality. In our vision Feel Refill is a prefabricated furniture piece of different colour variations that could be easily assembled by any person without tools. But for those who are interested in building on your own, we are kindly sharing the project using open-source tools.”
About the collective
Prostor Studio stands for a transparent design process. They show every step leading up to their final product and share the designs of their pieces on their website. This allows customers to make the designs themselves with materials they already have or customise the piece to their liking. Additionally, they involve customers in the design process by organising workshops where they can share their insights and preferences, shaping the final product. Ultimately, Feel Refill’s furniture piece serves only as an example of everything that is possible with this way of design thinking. Co-founder Maria’s dream would be to see the project develop into a city furniture unit. This way, cities could function as recycling hubs through the integration of a deposit refund system with urban furniture. This could increase recycling rates as well as shift citizens’ consciousness towards sustainable living.