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FD4007 Furniture at The Intersection of Sustainability and Art for Ahmedabad Rebecca Reubens
FD4007
Furniture at The Intersection of Sustainability and Art for Ahmedabad
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Program
Furniture Design
Unit Assistant Jhanvi Desai
Students
Arvindh Sethuraman Garvi Kotak Geetashree Banerjee Jaladhi Shah Neha Shirkande Pramod Kumar Birlangi Ressy Reji Kuruvlla Satya Prakash Panda Srishti Gupta Tripti Saravgi Rebecca Reubens
This studio focused on bringing usable public art to sites in their respective cities, in the form of furniture, which was sponsored by corporates for visibility and goodwill. This furniture centered on sustainability considerations, including ecological, social, cultural and economic issues. It looked at these considerations across the production to consumption system. The furniture design was mindful of mainstream outdoor furniture concerns, including durability, cost, function, sitting and layout, aesthetics and design language. And additionally looked at addressing and resolving ideas and issues around vandalism, placemaking, safe interaction, potential use by the homeless and inclusivity.
The studio included designing, creating technical drawings and prototyping a piece of outdoor public furniture at the intersection of art and sustainability; along with conducting studies, analysis and opportunity mapping for public spaces in cities based on siting and layout, form and function, durability and cost. They were able to do so in a sustainable and inclusive framework including the ideas and issues around vandalism, placemaking, safe interaction, potential use by the homeless and inclusivity.
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Fig 1 Jaladhi Table-height sand-pit for the Riverfront park in Ahmedabad, to encourage adults to play with children Fig 2 Ressy Seating for the roads alongside paddy-fields in Kottayam. The idea was to literally frame the paddyfields through a picture-frame which was integral to the furniture Fig 3 Neha multipurpose furniture for a park in Satara. The furniture caters to different age groups and also activities, including play Fig 4 Tripti, Geetashree A quick and dirty brainstorming exercise how vandalism in public furniture can be addressed through design solutions Fig 5 Jaladhi, Garvi Redesign exercise of how changes in the productionto-consumption system can make an existing furniture design more sustainable Fig 6 Pramod, Satya Redesign of Japanese bench and including a Chinar leaf to lend local cultural context and placefulness of Srinagar Fig 7 Tripti, Geetashree Redesign exercise of adding color and pattern to an existing cork recliner to lend cultural context and placefulness of Kohima Fig 8 Pramod Overall design process from understanding the context of a city to developing a design solution
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Fig 9 All Students Top to Bottom, Left to Right
Satya Seating for a park inspired from the ikkat craft of Odisha Jaladhi A table-height sand-pit for the Riverfront park in Ahmedabad Neha Multipurpose furniture for a park in Satara Geetashree Seating for a geriatric audience in Delhi Ressy Seating for the roads alongside paddy-fields in Kottayam Tripti Seating to celebrate the heroes of Pragyaraj Arvindh Interactive furniture for the students of government school in Chennai Garvi Furniture that converts from shelving to backdrop to seating to revitalize malls will low footfall in Ahmedabad Pramod Furniture in an open space to be used as a potable water dispensing unit in Hyderabad Srishti Multipurpose module which converts from basic storage for factory workers in Moradabad to a table and