Category Archives: Materials
Home Futures
Home Futures: Domestic Textiles and Decision Making Client: PDD Human-Centred Design ‘The chief benefit of the house [is that] the house shelters daydreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace’ (Bachelard 1958 The Poetics
Home Futures
Home Futures: Domestic Textiles and Decision Making Client: PDD Human-Centred Design ‘The chief benefit of the house [is that] the house shelters daydreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace’ (Bachelard 1958 The Poetics
Understanding the Change: Menopause and Materials Design
The world of materials is often considered predictable, repetitive and reliable. Yet because of the materials revolution, it is becoming more unpredictable. This project began with concerns about the long-standing separation in materials research of three different sets of approaches:
Understanding the Change: Menopause and Materials Design
The world of materials is often considered predictable, repetitive and reliable. Yet because of the materials revolution, it is becoming more unpredictable. This project began with concerns about the long-standing separation in materials research of three different sets of approaches:
The Secret Life of Things
Client: Great Recovery Project. “Toothbrush”- a video. The Great Recovery (GR) promotes a more sustainable, circular economy of materials through design work. We set out to help the project understand what the significant considerations are in redesigning domestic objects to
The Secret Life of Things
Client: Great Recovery Project. “Toothbrush”- a video. The Great Recovery (GR) promotes a more sustainable, circular economy of materials through design work. We set out to help the project understand what the significant considerations are in redesigning domestic objects to
Re-Presenting an Australian Spearthrower
Work conducted with: The British Museum, UCL Ethnographic Collection. UCL’s Ethnographic Collection contains several spear throwers, but only one from South-Eastern Australia. In different ways, it is beautiful, functional, mysterious, powerful, and potentially tragic. This is an object which is
Re-Presenting an Australian Spearthrower
Work conducted with: The British Museum, UCL Ethnographic Collection. UCL’s Ethnographic Collection contains several spear throwers, but only one from South-Eastern Australia. In different ways, it is beautiful, functional, mysterious, powerful, and potentially tragic. This is an object which is
The Material Properties of a Papua New Guinean Adze
Work conducted with: The British Museum, UCL Ethnographic Collection By: Sarah McFalls, Molly Johanssen Summer 2013 UCL’s Ethnographic Collection, comprising over 3000 artifacts, contains objects from every continent of the world, made out of every kind of material, and referencing
The Material Properties of a Papua New Guinean Adze
Work conducted with: The British Museum, UCL Ethnographic Collection By: Sarah McFalls, Molly Johanssen Summer 2013 UCL’s Ethnographic Collection, comprising over 3000 artifacts, contains objects from every continent of the world, made out of every kind of material, and referencing
Domestic Cosmologies of Materials and Disposal
Client: The Great Recovery Project By: Alison Violet-Mount, Emily (Chenyi) Cai, Lulu Chen, Xian Chen, Foong Wai Ng Summer 2012 This work aimed to assist the Great Recovery Project in their work on circular, sustainable economies of materials, by exploring
Domestic Cosmologies of Materials and Disposal
Client: The Great Recovery Project By: Alison Violet-Mount, Emily (Chenyi) Cai, Lulu Chen, Xian Chen, Foong Wai Ng Summer 2012 This work aimed to assist the Great Recovery Project in their work on circular, sustainable economies of materials, by exploring
Studio of Material Life 