My project is
reflection on the traditional production, a one way directed process from
designer to industry to consumer: design based on economy and functionality. In
my design project I am trying to investigating the possibilities of
collaborative design through designing a system with the idea of the viability
of every possible object present in a kind of freely accessible library of 3D
files. I want to use these existing objects as an alphabet to be used or
misused in any different direction regardless of their original functions. The
purpose of this system is to use, connect, assemble and redesign objects not towards
a specific functional goal. In my project, I am more interesting in the
narrative objects: the unexpected visual possibilities of the misuse of the
combinations.
As such I
took the mess feature mixed in productions on online shopping website aspect of
my thesis and apply this into my design methodology and to create a system.
The
possibility to merge objects without logic or functional necessity creates
objects that carry the echo of design but seem to have the structure of
proliferation or a tumor. They
show in a decorative and grotesque way the possible downsides of contemporary industrial
production: a hidden identity that we tend to keep hidden and a character of
this time we are not proud of and the vulnerable position of being a human
being.
Design to me
is not a tool to make something functional but a medium to tell stories. I use
a vocabulary of things that we recognize and that are closed by. I communicate through
simple daily life objects from the domestic setting that don’t have the burden
of art as these objects don’t have the heaviness, the apparent inaccessibility nor the
symbolic loading of sculptures.
