Selected
Projects
A transparent agar-based composite integrated with dehydrated domestic food waste — cast rather than stitched, formed in a single pour. Variations in density and colour shift as the body moves, creating a fluid, irregular surface that draws sustained looking.
Worn on the body, MILES communicates diet, routine, and time. No two waste streams are identical; each piece records a specific kitchen, season, and set of hands. The work revives a garment once tied to domestic labour while returning organic matter to public space.
Drawing on Walter Benjamin's dialectical image and Bruno Latour's material networks, the apron treats waste as active participants in human systems, not passive residues. Suspended fragments serve as archival, revealing systems of consumption and disposal. Transparency becomes method — a way for matter itself to communicate.
Gelatin infused with food-waste particles — coffee grounds, peels, spirulina, and other discarded remnants — suspended within a translucent matrix to create glossy, textured sheets. The title references lamina (thin layers) and biological lamins, structures that provide protection and support at a microscopic scale.
Some materials are donated by friends, framing the project as an act of co-design shaped by community living. Each piece functions as a specimen, preserving traces of everyday consumption.
Noticeable shrinkage occurs as the composites dry. Edges contract, surfaces warp, and the material continues to evolve over time. Ageing is not hidden but performed — raising questions about longevity, elemental transformation, and how both materials and bodies are designed to change. Resembling industrial laminates yet biodegradable and temporally unstable, LAMIN positions time itself as a design material.
A minimal, text-only news device housed in a fully transparent enclosure. The design removes visual noise and foregrounds material qualities — texture, weight, translucency. Information is encountered slowly. Perceptual clarity and emotional tone emerge through physical form rather than digital stimulation.
Developed within the research project Material Attunement in Minimal Media: Designing Tactility for Information Engagement, DUST challenges high-intensity digital news interfaces that prioritise speed, alerts, and continuous consumption. Each artefact functions as both design object and research instrument.
Published in the Proceedings of the Design Society: DESIGN Conference (Cambridge University Press, ISSN 2732-527X), with presentation at the DESIGN Conference in Dubrovnik, Croatia.