I grew up in Qasaba, Kabul. My family moved there when I was 5, and at the time there were several wars going on. My brother Mahmud and I we played every day on the fields surrounded with the highest mountains in our neighbourhood.
We shouldn’t be afraid of using technology to enhance traditional handiwork. Thus, to bring craftsmanship into the modern age, he designed a computer interface that actually makes suggestions to the designer while he’s working.
An interactive display that reintroduces human actions as a motor for emotional responses. This project is an experience which characteristic focuses on human motions, interaction and awareness as a key driver in the design process.
In a factory, overproduction is common. In between shifts, plastic is dripping on the floor. Instead of this, Ruben Thier created containers for under every extruder. By this, the plastic is collected as an overproduction archive.
In the movie ” Forgotten memory” you step into the world of dementia. An invisible and hidden world is exposed. I wonder how daily things look like with the view of a demented person. How do they experience their environment? What is a teapot if you don’t know what a teapot is?
“Respond” is an interactive coat rack, which moves when a coat is hung on it. It is an ingenious weight system, using precision carpentry and the element of surprise. After all, surprise arouses curiosity, and curiosity can lead you to the pleasure of understanding.
Sous les pavés, la plage is a Project where experimentation with process and material is a central theme in the work of Marlies van Putten. From Royal Art Academy in The Hague (The Netherlands) she presents her research into the production of organic forms by means of a special technique to cast aluminium.
Foam party is one of those projects that perfectly define our vision and brand identity. At The Method Case we usually affirm that we cannot only judge a project because of its final result. Rather, we do believe in designing the process, which will contribute to the outcome. Foam party is a project where Martijn Rigthers designed a process that is partially controlled by him, partly by the visitor.
PulpLamp is a collection of lamps made solely of paper paste from recycled newspapers, which thus acquire a second life. They are not standard models, each new creation will have a new shape, color and texture. All the shapes are made with inflatable molds, which makes it possible to deform them and make each one unique.
This new production system treats the Royal College of Art as an experimental site for demonstrating these principles. It uses waste from the various departments of the school for a local pencil factory that will supply drawing tools to present and future students.
Nature Aided Design Lab creates unique street furniture pieces using the power and variability of the Thames in London, one of only two tidal rivers in the UK. A flexible mould containing a concrete mixture is attached to floating buoys and shaped using the tidal forces and currents. The mixture hardens and freezes the form after a certain time and is revealed and harvested during low tide. This is a self-sustained repeatable production system where we manipulate the energy and variability of Nature to grow objects which are revealed during the low tide. The final form can be “predicted” using an interactive program developed by Nature Aided Design Lab. Preset constraints, tidal rates and macro currents can be inputted to give an idea of the desired form. However, the inherent unpredictability of nature will also have an effect which cannot be foreseen.
