In today’s economic, environmental and social landscape, sustainability has
become an imperative, not an option. Designers have a key role to play in this
new landscape and with it new challenges to make a positive contribution
become an imperative, not an option. Designers have a key role to play in this
new landscape and with it new challenges to make a positive contribution
to adding value.
In this project we explored the notion of creating ‘More with Less’. We
took some everyday low value and low impact materials
(in the range of FOOD, WOOD/BAMBOO, PAPPER/CARD)
and transform the perception of these same materials into artefacts
with a high perceived value that make us look at them in a new way.
This happened through a journey of hands on experimentation to
transform and break out of our preconceptions
about what is possible with these materials. These new experiments will
suggest applications and lead into proposals for new products with low
environmental impacts and high social and economic value.
suggest applications and lead into proposals for new products with low
environmental impacts and high social and economic value.
This ecofriendly plant pot TUMBLER is made of used coffee grounds, sawdust, cornstarch and
home-made bio-plastic which used corn starch, venigar and water as the raw materials.
Apart from the degradable material which is totally friendly to the environment,
TUMBLER also dose a good job in both function and user experience.
With the round base which used the principle of roly-poly, plant in the pot can tell the people
that they are thirsty by falling over when the fosil is dry.
As it is light, strong, earth-looking, agreeable and waterproof, people can carry it home from
the supermarket without difficulty and also have many options of placing
the plant, no matter on the table, in the existing pot, in the fosil of the garden etc.
As to the plant itself and the merchants, the property of coffee which can act as nutrition
expends the display date of the plant, in which way both
saves money to merchants and brings food to plants.
TUMBLER is a good choice for plant, costumer, merchant and the planet.
