Sharing means awareness of the fact, that you are not alone. Awareness of the fact, that we are all connected while living on this planet. Giving away what you no longer use seems like the easiest thing, but sometimes it’s not. Making giving reality and knowing, that you have helped someone with something that simple, and you have changed that person’s life for the better feels really good.
As the brief states I should “design a service, that gets better or more useful the more people use it, so that sharing it becomes more attractive or viable.”
As the brief states I should “design a service, that gets better or more useful the more people use it, so that sharing it becomes more attractive or viable.”
The purpose of this project is to encourage people to share their no longer used belongings, because the trash for one is a treasure for another. The purpose is to change peoples perspective on charity sharing, and to inform them about the benefits sharing does for the environment and the world we live in.
After some research I realized, that the best way to make people share their belongings these days is through internet platform. People advertise much more online in recent years - houses, cars, electronics - you name it. This is why they would choose to notify online, about their no longer used sofa, couch, table etc. The furniture will then be transported from people’s homes to a workshop. Then people willing to help, design and art students, practically everyone interested in the cause involved in the process will be able to redesign the donated furniture and then it will be donated to homes for children, old people or families in need for furniture. In the online platform people would be able to actively participate in the cause – the site will be divided into three sections – people willing to donate, people, who would need furniture, and people willing to volunteer .
After some research I realized, that the best way to make people share their belongings these days is through internet platform. People advertise much more online in recent years - houses, cars, electronics - you name it. This is why they would choose to notify online, about their no longer used sofa, couch, table etc. The furniture will then be transported from people’s homes to a workshop. Then people willing to help, design and art students, practically everyone interested in the cause involved in the process will be able to redesign the donated furniture and then it will be donated to homes for children, old people or families in need for furniture. In the online platform people would be able to actively participate in the cause – the site will be divided into three sections – people willing to donate, people, who would need furniture, and people willing to volunteer .
After deciding to do the “Shared Assets” brief, I started to research and think about what people share these days – they share information about themselves, photos, news etc. In order to invent something linked with my specialty – photography, at first I decided to think what could benefit the society in that connection, and decided, that giving objects a second life and photographing them would be interesting. I got inspired by the recent visit to the Victoria and Albert museum, and the Postmodernism exhibition. The one object, that stuck in my mind was the “Proust chair” – a design created by Alessandro Mendini in 1978 for Studio Alchimia. Redecorating something from the 18th century in a modern way is quite inspiring for me. Then I had a conversation with my tutor and he proposed me to contact several charity organizations in connection with my idea for redesign. He gave me directions to make the project more socially engaged and to include people in need. I did some more research, and my idea became more clear.
