VERNACULAR VACUUM
This small hand held vacuum is intended as a provocation, challenging our assumptions about contemporary product design. The project explores how contemporary products might become more repairable and easier to maintain by using local materials, technologies and modern open-source making techniques.
Typically, the use of brightly coloured engineering plastics and seductive moulded surfacing alienate user from developing more informed, empowered, and sustainable relationships with the products they use. Designed using familiar materials such as cardboard postal tubes, zip ties, bicycle grips and bolts along with intuitive assembly techniques, the product becomes more human, approachable, and inclusive.
Creating a sense of familiarity in every component provides the user with the confidence to repair and maintain it, altogether forming a more transparent product
Exhibited at Somerset House: Eternally Yours 2022
This small hand held vacuum is intended as a provocation, challenging our assumptions about contemporary product design. The project explores how contemporary products might become more repairable and easier to maintain by using local materials, technologies and modern open-source making techniques.
Typically, the use of brightly coloured engineering plastics and seductive moulded surfacing alienate user from developing more informed, empowered, and sustainable relationships with the products they use. Designed using familiar materials such as cardboard postal tubes, zip ties, bicycle grips and bolts along with intuitive assembly techniques, the product becomes more human, approachable, and inclusive.
Creating a sense of familiarity in every component provides the user with the confidence to repair and maintain it, altogether forming a more transparent product
Exhibited at Somerset House: Eternally Yours 2022
