DHTAAQ 2021
Polylactic acid, 6cm x 7cm x 6cm, Delhaize parking lot, Ghent, Belgium. 2021
Living in an age where almost anything imaginable for practical use is designed, customized and available a few clicks from your doorstep. From infrastructure and logistics systems to ergonomic support for the wrist.
Each practical form arises from necessity, its appearance and essence are influenced by its application, limitations, compromises and aesthetic considerations.
One of the aims of the work was to analyze and deconstruct the mechanisms of industrial design available in everyday life, using these aesthetics and principles, to create new objects. Objects are designed as a means of expression for dialogues with the environment or for societal and known continuations of the imagination with or without solutions. In this work, these means of expression are the gripping elements of the landscape.
As part of my master’s work, I have developed plaster and synthetic resin material cast and 3D printed objects that interact with the laws of physics and are based on previously created architecture. Aware of the perceptions and experiences of environmental users, the visual image of forms is able to testify to the scenario of an imagined - intended activity about its application with other objects, materials and forms. Even if the mechanical object is stationary, its movements are predicted.
When creating a series of six objects, I have used industrial design production trends - shape sketching, 3d modeling, prototyping, using additive manufacturing and evolutionarily selecting the best options, thus embodying modern production trends in the objects. All objects are created from scratch by measuring site-specific locations and using the 3D modeling program Fusion360.
The technique in which I make connections is influenced by the environment - from what I have had experience with, from learning and using various mechanisms that are available in everyday life.
Form follows function – this clear manner is like a tool that I use in my work to express meaningful thoughts or observations. I believe that the works I have created incorporate the principles of industrial design production, which, together with the liberation of function in the form, testify to the specific characteristics of our culture, our understanding of logic and the condensation of the imagination in the material environment. These aspects are influenced by the user experience with the environment - almost like a language that shapes people’s thoughts.
UV resin, 12cm x 6cm x 5cm, KASK, Ghent, Belgium. 2021
The gap in the brick wall has been effected by the weather, rinsing the brick binder over the years and is now held together by yellow metal structures. The created object is based on the principle of a screw wedge - the threads go in different directions which causes the external objects to move away from each other. This object, created in the aesthetics of industrial design, creates a contrasting relationship between the historic part of the building and the facade with little resistance, continuing the dialogue between the strengthening of the brick wall and its pushing.
Polylactic acid, 40cm x 7cm x 6cm, KASK, Ghent, Belgium. 2021
Polylactic acid, 12cm x 5cm x 7cm, KASK, Ghent, Belgium. 2021
Plaster, 28cm x 20xm x 25cm, KASK, Ghent, Belgium. 2021
Polylactic acid, Rubber. 55cm x 21xm x 15cm, KASK, Ghent, Belgium. 2021