Recently, with colleagues Felix Heisel and Dillon Pranger, as well as Dirk Hebel, I developed a series of studios on notions of waste, resulting in the book The Architecture of Waste: Design for a Circular Economy (Routledge, New York, 2019), which includes several designs using waste by students in the architecture programs at AAP and Harvard GSD.Īrchitecture is certainly beginning to address these issues, but our discipline is still overshadowed by the ghosts of the last century and all the baggage that was handed down to us through our educators and theirs before them. Today, I focus on how affordances might change as an object becomes “waste,” and how we might rethink design in relation to the afterlife of objects and materials. In my earlier work, I was interested in manipulating perceptual affordances by using materials in unconventional ways to provoke thoughts on the true meaning or provenance – the bigger picture – of an object or a material. Affordances permit the primary perception of the performance or function of an object. Early on, I was interested in perceptual psychology, in particular the notion of “affordances,” coined by J.J. The playfulness with materials is relatively constant in my work but the motivation has evolved.
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