DESIGN NAME: Totem
PRIMARY FUNCTION: Bench Collection
INSPIRATION: During these difficult times, we are not defined by demographics or geography. We have shared ideals, dreams and a vision for a new reality. We together can advance culture. In a world where many people make do with old solutions, progressive people focus on the future.
UNIQUE PROPERTIES / PROJECT DESCRIPTION: Second-life mass-product could be produced at home using standard cardboard and paper packaging waste based on standard patterns and ready solutions created by qualified engineers, designers and enthusiasts. Maintaining a DIY method have a great impact on the customers engagement and brand sustainability performance. The implementation of method actually leads toward creating more meaningful new-age concept of manufacturing and marketing.
OPERATION / FLOW / INTERACTION: Such type of furniture is formed in an art object created from own cardboard waste. Fuses nature and technology into a multidisciplinary furniture sculpture. The project is a critical vision on the future of furniture manufacturing, wherein two seemingly opposite craft and industrial evolutions have made a pact to survive.
PROJECT DURATION AND LOCATION: Chair collection project started in January 2017 in Prague and not finished yet.
FITS BEST INTO CATEGORY: Furniture Design
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PRODUCTION / REALIZATION TECHNOLOGY: The demands of customers and society to reduce material use, reuse, and create sustainable and recyclable products are increasing every day. Many years Kibardin examined both artistically as well as poetically, humans own ethical responsibility in dealing with human waste: a poignant increasing threat in todays vulnerable world. Project demonstrates discovering unique constructions utilising the unique properties of mundane packaging, working predominantly with paper as a sculptural medium.
SPECIFICATIONS / TECHNICAL PROPERTIES: Basic Dimensions - Diameter 350-450 mm x H 450-500 mm
TAGS: kibardin, original, sustainable, modern, unique, DIY, furniture, recycling
RESEARCH ABSTRACT: Everybody can produce mass-furniture at home using cardboard and paper packaging based on standard patterns created by qualified designers.
CHALLENGE: What impact does maintaining a DIY at home production method have on the customers engagement and brand sustainability performance. The focus of research was on the impact of implementing method in the customers life and how they contribute toward creating more meaningful new user experience.
ADDED DATE: 2021-02-04 18:35:14
TEAM MEMBERS (1) : Vadim Kibardin
IMAGE CREDITS: Photographer Vadim Kibardin, Variations, 2019
PATENTS/COPYRIGHTS: Copyrights belong to Vadim Kibardin, 2019
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