Walyalup/Fremantle
2019
This
is a Mutable Mobile—a fluid object designed to travel and change over
time. It can be assembled and disassembled with simple tools and might
gradually change shape without disappearing altogether. This object sits within
the broader web of concerns of the Re-Form Initiative: a design-research
project examining the responsibility of designers in the context of
post-consumer plastic waste. That larger project assembles a multitude of
actors—designers, architects, funding bodies, government agencies,
non-profit organisations, community groups, marine scientists, students,
shearwaters, molds, mills, and machines—around a common concern. A three-dimensional
grid combining the ‘natural’ and the ‘synthetic’: Tasmanian Oak horizontal and
vertical members are literally and metaphorically drawn together with a bespoke
pin of injection-molded recycled plastic while a simple timber wedge applies
pressure to the connection.