Abstract
A growing number of scholars argue that how people experience materials in products, i.e. Materials Experience, is essential in designing meaningful material applications. Material Driven Design (MDD) has been developed as the method to understand these experiential traits of materials and embed them in the design process. However, the MDD method is yet to find its way as a mainstream design practice across diverse projects. This paper presents one of these projects, in which a designer followed the MDD method to design (1) a service system for collection and recycling of plastic wastes and (2) a product that brings forward the unique qualities of recycled plastic and make people cherish re-cycled plastic as personal Do-It-Yourself souvenirs.
Keywords
Materials Experience; Material Driven Design; Do-It-Yourself Materials; Recycling, Plastics
DOI
https://doi.org/10.21606/eksig2017.108
Citation
Majumdar, P., Karana, E., Ghazal, S.,and Sonneveld, M.H.(2017) The Plastic Bakery: A Case of Material Driven Design, in Elvin Karana, Elisa Giaccardi, Nithikul Nimkulrat, Kristina Niedderer, Serena Camere (eds.), Alive. Active. Adaptive. International Conference on Experiential Knowledge and Emerging Materials, 19-20 June 2017, Delft and Rotterdam, The Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.21606/eksig2017.108
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The Plastic Bakery: A Case of Material Driven Design
A growing number of scholars argue that how people experience materials in products, i.e. Materials Experience, is essential in designing meaningful material applications. Material Driven Design (MDD) has been developed as the method to understand these experiential traits of materials and embed them in the design process. However, the MDD method is yet to find its way as a mainstream design practice across diverse projects. This paper presents one of these projects, in which a designer followed the MDD method to design (1) a service system for collection and recycling of plastic wastes and (2) a product that brings forward the unique qualities of recycled plastic and make people cherish re-cycled plastic as personal Do-It-Yourself souvenirs.