MATERIALS INNOVATION / unit five.
‘THE TOASTER PROJECT’
This week Thomas Thwaite spoke about ‘The Toaster Project’ which he completed for his second year studying at the Royal College of Art. In the project he used design to create debate instead of a solution. He explained his process of taking to pieces a cheap toaster from Argos and categorising each part into the singular substance they were made from; he discovered that there were hundreds. The reason for doing so was to ‘start from the ground up’; as everything essentially started from the ground, as ‘rock’ or ‘sludge’. His project made me rethink basic objects and the materials/time/energy that goes into each small part of the bigger object.
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Thomasthwaites.com,. 'THOMAS THWAITES » The Toaster Project'. Web.
'Daniel Alexander Photography'. N.p., 2015. Web.
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