Find References
The stools.
especially helpful when the best quality of our production of recycled plastic is in the form of boards.
The color pallet.
this is very helpful in terms of thinking about the color matching and the overall aesthetic of our products.
The carton.
thinking about the appearance, we want the project to look like something else, but do not lose some of the properties of its original form. this is a fine line to cross and a hard balance to keep, but those of this one is the place that we are striving for.
Learn from China
Unfortunately we haven’t found any relevant or innovative ways for Chinese people to recycle plastic. Some elementary school or kindergarten would have crafting class for making little projects using cardboard and plastic bottles and that’s about it. Nowadays most households would simply put them into the recycle bin and wait for the garbage collector to collect them.
Observe
Waimai boxes, plastic bottles, Taobao packaging, plastic shopping bags (fabric or straight plastic), trash paper and cardboard, coffee cups……
Experiment
*In the process
Meeting with Community Partner
*In the process
With your group
(lab report)
the part that was about learn from China was to find crafts or techniques used with other materials and maybe they can be made with recycled materials. Just a way to rethink what they already do, but using the materials we have available.