BOWA
BOWA
ID3109 - People, Things, and the Material World
Under the guidance of Grace Tan
Design Futures and Critical Inquiry Material Exploration
This Platform is an attempt to question what design is in relation to our humanity and the world we live in. With the state of the environment, it is timely for us to approach design through a critical lens - to filter out the superfluous and focus on things or stuff that truly matter. So what are these things? Why do they matter? What do they reveal about humanity and the world we live in? And what is design in the context of all these things? The students will be guided through a progression of ideas or prompts along their journey of critical inquiry to arrive at a design discourse that is reflexive and authentic.
Through methodic processes of coiling, unfolding, and deformation, BOWA reclaims salvaged materials such as wire and fishing line, mechanically enhancing their deformative properties and capitalising on its own unfinished states to create a modular system with infinite possibilities.