Waste Study 1

Experimental Project, 2016

Photos by: Adi Gilad

This is a continuous research project that arose from a riffraff of waste materials that caught the eye. It became an active gathering of items that were discarded but hold wonderful potential for transformation into functional creations. These materials were carefully sorted by substance, color and texture to define a particular palette. They were then reassembled to create a new material with its own DNA – a rich, abstract collage layers of material pressed by colorful threads and delicately sewn together with an industrial sewing machine.

The first out-of-studio implementation of this design approach took place at the Ramat Hanadiv Visitors’ Pavilion InfoShop. A special collaboration with the site’s workers, all details of the inserts, containers and handles in the InfoShop are made out of on-site waste. Currently, the studio is using this method to create a new series of forms and objects.