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What did you want to achieve with this installation? Do you think you were successful? The re-purposing opens up new life cycles and new possibilities for other trades as the ceramic jar mutates into a ceramic lantern. Each of the 1,664 glazed ceramic jars is slightly different as they are all handmade.
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What is your idea of “craft thinking” and how does your project relate to this theme?Ĭraft thinking is at the core of the Milkywave concept. We anticipate it will continue to make a positive impact and will help to promote an acupuncture approach to urban redevelopment in the hutongs. We are also thrilled to see how Dashilar has made such a comeback, and how the life of the neighbourhood transformed and intensified during the event. We think that BJDW is a great platform for defining agendas, testing theories, and transgressing disciplines and boundaries. How and why did you decide to get involved in BJDW 2012? In doing so, the objects are freed from their original function and attached associations.
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We then apply computational methods to reconstitute the objects into new entities, which lets us speculate new uses and purposes. Through the collection and cataloguing of these objects we rescue some of the principles of phenomenology understood as the recreation of urban experiences via the texture, shape and colour of materials. Milkywave is part on an ongoing research project focused on reading the city through the objects and situations that inhabit it. What is the idea behind Milkywave? How did it come about? We spoke to the architect-designers to find out more. The translucent jars form a quintessential part of Beijing hutong DNA, and can be found in every corner shop, subway station and local square. Presented at the Dashila(b) Factory during Beijing Design Week 2012, Milkywave is a light installation composed of 1,664 yoghurt jars created by Rolando Rodriguez-Leal and Natalia Wrzask of Aidia Studio, in collaboration with He You. News about design in/from "Greater" China (archived) Articles