DESIGN
COLLECTION
The aim for this project was to add an object to a pre-existing collection in the V&A. I chose to take inspiration from a small collection in the jewellery room, wanting to emulate the intention but in a more contemporary way. The work that most interested me from the collection was by the jeweller Peter Chang and was made using pieces of recycled plastic. The design was strongly reminiscent of a sea crustacean. I enjoyed the work but saw that it, along with many of the designs in the room as a whole were not of the times. Fashion is a constantly evolving thing and not to have any pieces that are ‘fashionable’ as of now seemed like a shame. After doing some research into current jewellery fashion I came up with the object’s presented here. The idea was to show the modern aesthetic of jewellery but using similar techniques to that used by Peter Chang, using epoxy resin to create a clear form within which to place the recycled material I found to be representative of modern fashion aesthetics (street fashion).
When given a space that seems devoid of activity, what do you do? Do you impose upon it? regenerate it? or just look a little closer? We were given a small 'wild life reserve' just outside of New Cross, London to create a design intervention. Upon first inspection, we could find little interest. People walked through it occasionally but with no care to stop and pause to take in the humble surroundings. The park was not abandon however our urbanised mindsets and just forbid us from observing the hive of activity under our noses. There were flowers, rotten wood, insects, birds and copious amounts of rubbish. to create an incentive to not litter and to improve the state of the ecosystem in the park we decided to create biodegradable rubbish, moulded from what we collected initially from the reserve. The idea being that people would replace the rubbish with our biodegradable rubbish made from bird seed and sugar paper, gamifying the process and encouraging locals to better respect the subtle beauty of the park.
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Zombies Aliens and others. In creating a fictional lens through which to design we created these objects. Who do we other in society? And for what reason? The fear go technology is one that a lot of people can align with as it is something that improves at such an exponential pace. By creating a native set in the future 'the last man in the factory' we designed objects to reconnect an isolated person with his humanity. Humanity having been spit into those with logical mind and those who have more emotional tendencies.
So...
What makes us human? The desires that seem hard wired for connection with others, warmth, ritual and spirituality. boiled down into objects that then become representative of a spices.
To present these object's we filmed and narrated a advertisement directed towards the public by the V&A, some time in the future. The idea being that the creator of the objects had long since died and the objects discovered after his death. Naming the person a 'machine being' and describing him as one of the last of his kind.