Industry is a process and design model that communicates the implementation of honest sustainability practices to create a circular economy model for the manufacturing and designing of furniture, objects and lighting. With a cohesive design language this collection considers the entire ecological impact of each object: material, production, use, storage, transport and disposal.

The project intentionally compares and resolves idiosyncratic sustainable solutions between finite and discarded material resources focusing on low-tech manufacturing technologies. Using timber, rubber from recycled tyre inner tubes and discarded fluorescent tubes these objects were designed to be disassembled for reuse or repurpose storage and transport. Every timber build is a knock down frame creating larger objects from smaller sections. Similarly, larger works can be dismantled, easily stored or later adapted into smaller outcomes.

The sawdust from the timber manufacturing processes was salvaged and treated creating a material composite that can be moulded, coloured using natural dyes and disposed of organically. The tyre inner tubes were collected and then transformed into rope and hand woven into textiles applying rubber’s elastic properties to hold, cover and protect. Industry questions systemic harmful design and production practices that feed an unsustainable model for the future of our planet and industry.

Photography: Mathew MacQuiggan