REVIES
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REVIES is a four part dinner story about how we people use our materials, resources and stuff. It shows our status quo and it questions what is valuable to us. It makes us reflect on our future attitude towards heritage, recycling, nature and life. It initiates the conversation between you and me in an attempt to start moving people towards an open-ended future.
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Summary
REVIES is a four part dinner story about how we people use our materials, resources and stuff. It shows our status quo and it questions what is valuable to us. It makes us reflect on our future attitude towards heritage, recycling, nature and life. It initiates the conversation between you and me in an attempt to start moving people towards an open-ended future. The dinner set is comprised of four plates which tells the story about possible future scenarios in four parts:
REMAKE is a handmade casted porcelain bisque-fired plate. Hand-made in half a year, making it therefore the most time and energy consuming and thus the most valuable plate to make. Usually everything has to go faster and cheaper, but by letting go of time and making thing by hand again thus putting energy in an object something unique arises.
REPAIR is made of fragments of a plate from the thrift store. Not belonging to a dinnerware set anymore thus destructed if not sold. By breaking the plate and repairing it with the gold leaf kintsugi technique, the plate becomes valuable again. Thereby emphasizing the moment it broke and embracing its imperfection. It therewith questions if dysfunction is undesirable and if there is beauty in uniqueness.
RETURN is naturally grown mycelium plate from an edible mushroom, grown in a mould. When thrown away it completely decays. Letting nature be itself is something we find unsettling and scary. We thus try to restrict it while preferring to ignore its transience. Letting nature take its course offers opportunities and a new material is bred.
REUSE is a made from plastic polypropylene yoghurt cans, not worth a penny after breakfast. By shredding and melting them, they transform into a new plate for lunch. Every day we throw out single use plastic as if it is worthless. Melted in a new shape durability is added and appreciation is regained. Our waste becomes our future.
Key objectives for sustainability
REVIES does not try to solve a problem directly, but tries to share the knowledge between us and start the conversation on the dilemmas which are challenging us whilst moving towards a more sustainable future.
Key objectives for aesthetics and quality
Aesthetics have been met with the REVIES separately but also as a dinner set. Because of the monochrome and natural colors and materials it emphasized the story. The material is the story. Also it is to placed on the dinner table between people and whilst eating connects people and puts food for thought on the table.
Key objectives for inclusion
Inclusion is part of the project because it is for everybody.
Results in relation to category
The impact started and is ongoing. Every time it is on the table it impacts people and makes them wonder what next?
How Citizens benefit
Citizens are affected in a way that it inform them on matters that normally stay in a designers concept. They are now included in the questions that ly ahead.
Innovative character
The innovative character of REVIES is in the fact that it is not another designed product and thus solution for the people thought through behind a design agency desk or product design firm but that people become part of the solution by giving them the information and make them shape their own opinion.
