Resource Rise Again exhibition
Isocle, 2016.
Christchurch based social enterprise Rekindle advocates for the potent capacity of design, architecture and craft to facilitate our connection with the material resources around us.
The Resource: Rise Again project was developed in response to better understanding commercial waste in New Zealand, a waste stream that remains relatively unchecked by Government yet is much larger than household waste.
Enabling five paid positions for designers to focus intensively on commercial waste, the brief required participants work through a process of research, material testing and product development to consider meaningful design solutions for waste otherwise destined for landfill.
The exhibition at Objectspace presents two design outcomes by industrial designer Clark Bardsley and architect Andrew Mitchener, made using waste from commercial CNC cutting of MDF laminates.
Illustrating the wider goals of the Resource: Rise Again project, Bardsley and Mitchener demonstrate that design thinking and craftsmanship can transform the perception and value of a material, not only for the consumer, but for those that produce the waste in the first place.
Runs 3 March to 29 April 2018.