Rikke Hauge(FA) Eun Sun Park(ID) Shanice Otersen(TE) Katrine Ingrid Christensen(AC)
Learning From the Past
Traces of Life
Presentation Structure 1
Learning from the Past Inuit research, Inventory studies, Product timeline, Deep field research
2 Motivation
Traces of Life
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How Might We Questioning
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Initial Concept Create a Story
Critical Feedback/Reflection Project direction...+?
Sustainable Thinking Sustainable Design Card, Literatures, Research papers...Wabi Sabi
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Experiment 10 Days Chellenge
Project Concept System, Design rules, Market research
9 10 Future Outlook & Reflection 2
Traces of Life Store Concept Mood Board, Design,
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Inventory studies
Product timeline shopping cart
Deep field research
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Inuit research
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Inuit research National Museum
passing on knowlege from generation to generation
decorate products gives personality
Emotional attachment knowhow fixing and creating
repairing products
more than just tools
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attachment to products
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Inventory studies Two Danish homes
traces of generations Attachment to products
repairing products gives emotional
attachment to products
repairing products
functional value
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time and space emotional vs functional value
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Product timeline
“With the exception of the automobile, it is the most commonly used “vehicle” in the world.”
Shopping Cart
“Greatest development in the history of merchandising.”
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Consumerism
Shopping Cart Revolution
“Make it easy for customers buy more.” 1910
Self hand-holding experience. Every item was behind a counter. Required a large, knowledgeable staff, and it moved goods at a rather slow pace. 1916 Self-serve model, Goods were put out on shelves and customers helped themselves.
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1920s Henke & Pillot, Houston Texas Train Version, a fifteen-inch wide track raised off the floor that customers could use to slide their wheeled baskets.
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1930 Joe Weingarten Toy Wagon Too much storage space 1936 Sylvan Goldman Folding Chair
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Home Refrigeration
Major changes were happening in the way that food was consumed: Freon, synthesized in 1930, led to the spread of the commercial refrigerator. By the late 1930s, more than 50% of Americans had one in their home.
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throw away culture
1946 Orla E. Watson Telescoping Frame Permanently attached baskets that also telescoped and nested.
Smart Technology
a product is only small part of your life
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1999,IDEO User Friendly
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Amazon Go Alibaba Hema Caper Smart Cart RFID
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Deep field research Secondhand Shop
Gives products a personality Trace of life
Shows how product’s history
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Seeing blemishes and flaws as a positive feature
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Motivation
Traces of Life We define “traces of life” as the markings an object has obtained by previous owners, giving the item a personality and story of its own.
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An object communicates its story about how it has been used and by whom it has been owned to us through its markings it gained through time.
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How might we... ...create a concept that gives more value to objects that have traces of life
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Initial Concept
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Create a Story & Buy a Story
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Critical Feedback
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10 days challenge What is Traces of Life on objects? How object itself can tell the story? new product
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markings from wear and tear
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10 days challenge Learnings and Reflection
Time and use left markings on objects. Markings are different by items and its material. Traces gain stories from its usage.
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But not all traces have story, and it needs time to gain traces.
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Sustainable Design Approach
Functional
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We aim to ensure that our product ages without losing its aesthetic value and gain value over time.
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We embed the story of traces into our products and concept by adding to the history of the product.
Design Tec hn ica
We reuse broken and unwanted products with traces of life to minimize the use of resources.
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Theories about imperfection.. wabi sabi • Wabi and Sabi used to be two different concepts; “Wabi” stood for the elegance of rustic simplicity, “Sabi” was used to describe the way time affects deterioration, the beauty of the impermanence of ageing. • Seeing beauty in imperfections and flaws. • Authenticity.
“Nothing lasts, nothing is finished and nothing is perfect” (Richard Powell) “The true acceptance of finding beauty in things as they are” (Robyn Griggs) “…the beauty of the imperfect, impermanent and incomplete, the antithesis of our classical western notion of beauty as something perfect, enduring and monumental.” (Leonard Koen)
• “Kintsugi” is an example of Wabi Sabi • Traditional Japanese art form, originated in the 15th century • “Kintsugi” means “golden joinery” • Pottery is repaired with golden lacquer, making an item more valuable over time • Embracing flaws instead of hiding them • Kintsugi is a way of accepting and embracing our failures in life and seeing them in a positive way, making each person unique. 15
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kintsugi
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Project Concept Disposal
• Collect broken items from recycling center or unusable items from secondhand store
• Donate to larger recycling facility/company if item becomes too weak for recovery ex.”I collect” www.soex.de/en/icollect/
Recovery • Bring broken items back to designer(workshop) for repair • DIY at home with their knowledge
Material Select Adv ise
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Production • Designers creating products, adding value to the traces of life
• Value the traces wear and tear over usage • Build awareness of production • Gain emotional attachment to product
Retail
• Rent a temporary space at vacant store in the city(local) vacant
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• Faciliate craft workshop with sustainable minded community • Share skills & knowledge
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How our project was influenced by... The roots of sustainability by John R. Ehrenfeld
...adresses the issue that companies try to become sustainable by rather treating symptoms than attacking the problem by the root In a way our concept is also only treating symptoms, because we are using waste materials from unsustainable companies. However, we are seeding a new concept (root) with waste materials that grows as a sustainable company. And we are attacking the root cause that products get less desirable over time, by making them more beautiful over time instead.
Forging new futures by Amy Twigger Holroyd...
...is all about how Globalization and modenization have on the one hand diminished local traditional design and craft but on the other hand have sparked a new need for them The techniques we are using are not traditionally Danish; but the overall principle and need for craft expressed in the text, is also expressed in our concept.
I love this dress by Niinimäki and Koskinen
...studies and presents how an emotional and empathic design approach can achieve long-term product relationships Our garments’ beauty changes over time, the more repair it has the more valuable it becomes, the way it is repaired embraces change and plays with tactility and weight, making it more interesting People have the option of bringing in their own garments and learn how to fix them, which makes them more attached to them. It also makes it easy to maintain and keeps it functional through time.
Evolution of design for sustainability: From product design to design for system innovations and transitions by Ceschin and Gaziulusoy
We focused especially on emotional durable design to extend product lifespans -> Design products that will age with dignity, design products that allows user to capture memories/ Wabi-Sabi. Through educating people on how to repair their things, we can make sure that they keep them longer and don’t need to buy new products. Making it easier for people to adopt a desired behaviour. During our project our focus shifted from a pure product design to a product-service-system level.
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...proposes a framework that shows the progress of the ”Design for Sustainability” (DfS) field and how it has shifted from a product focus to a focus on system level changes
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Sustainable Design Matrix From Product Level to Product-Service System Level
Product service system level: Sustainable product service system - Structural changes in the way production and consumption systems are organised.
Emotionally durable design - User product attachment Design for sustainable behaviour - Easier to adobt a desired behaviour. 18
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Product level:
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Market Research Up Cycle
DIY posibility
Erace Traces
Embrace Traces
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Not DIY
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Design Rules 1 Embrace the flaws. 2 Up cycle, give the item more value. 3 Keep it functional. 4 Design for longevity. 5 Don’t force it to be something it is not. 6 Keep an aesthetic language in mind
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and use similar repair methods for similar objects.
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Mood board
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Store Concept
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Broken jewlery
Upcycled jewlery
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Broken and stained clothes
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Upcycled clothes Sashiko embrodery 28
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Broken and stained clothes
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Upcycled clothes Sashiko embrodery 30
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Broken and stained items
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Upcycled items
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Store Concept Pricing Equation Price
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Profit & Value
Original Item(object price) Hours of work by Designer(130dkk/hr) Added Materials Misc (Transporation, rent, advertising, etc.)
Blue Sweater 650dkk
T shirts 400dkk
Shirt 500dkk
Bracelet 950dkk
Ring 750dkk
Heart Necklace 850dkk 33
Pearl Necklace 1200dkk
Table with Coasters 1500dkk
Plate 550dkk
Jean 700dkk
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Blue T shirt 300dkk
Blazer 800dkk
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Value Creation New knowledge and creative skills about repairing broken items. The knowledge that you can share. An emotional attachment to products. A Product that age with dignity, design that evolves over time. A product you can continue developing. A Unique product. A products that can last for a long time. Good feeling by handing in the garment for repairing or repair it yourself.
People who.... Want personalised items that are uniqle and original. Takes distance to todays consumerism. Sees the value in old objects. Does not seek for perfection , ´mistakes are a good thing´. 34
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Building Sustainable Minded Community
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Future Outlook
Global
Local Disposal
• Collect broken items from recycling center or unusable items from secondhand store
• Donate to larger recycling facility/company if item becomes too weak for recovery ex.”I collect” www.soex.de/en/icollect/
Material
Promote sustainable behavior Recovery A dv i s • Bring broken items back to designer(workshop) e for repair
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• DIY at home with their knowledge
Production • Designers creating products, adding value to the traces of life
Invite guest artist & craftman
• Value the traces wear and tear over usage • Build awareness of production • Gain emotional attachment to product
Retail
• Rent a temporary space at vacant store in the city(local) vacant
Influence each other for larger movement
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• Faciliate craft workshop with sustainable minded community • Share skills & knowledge
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Travel with mobile workshop and visit different cities
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References
Richman-Abdou,K., ‘Kintsugi: The Centuries-Old Art of Repairing Broken Pottery with Gold’,my modern met, [web blog], 2019, https://mymodernmet.com/kintsugi-kintsukuroi/ (accessed 21 October 2019) Oppong T., ’Wabi-Sabi: The Japanese Philosophy For a Perfectly Imperfect Life’, Medium [web blog], 2018, https://medium.com/personal-growth/wabi-sabi-the-japanese-philosophy-for-a-perfectly-imperfect-life-11563e833dc0 (accessed 21 October 2019) Dayman,L., ’Wabi-Sabi: The Japanese Philosophy Of Embracing Imperfectionism’, Savvytokio [web blog], 2018, https://savvytokyo.com/wabi-sabi-the-japanese-philosophy-of-embracing-imperfectionism/ (accessed 21 October 2019) Ceschin, F. and Gaziulusoy, I. ,’Evolution of design for sustainability: From product design to design for system innovations and transitions’, Design studies, 2016, pp. 1-33 Ehrenfeld, J., ’The Roots of Sustainability’, MIT Sloan Management Review, vol. 46, no.2, 2005, pp. 23-25 Twigger Holroyd, A., ’Forging new futures, Cultural Significance, Revitalisation and Authenticity’, Bloomsbury Academic, 2018, pp. 25-36
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Niinimäki, K. and Koskinen, I., ’I love this dress, it makes me feel beautiful! Empathic knowledge in sustainable design’, The Design Journal, Vol. 14, No. 2, 2011, pp. 165-186