Si Cheng

To my understanding, the re-design of wasted product is utilizing the existing structure, material or pattern of wasted products, or put some other elements in the waste and change it into new products. Although there are something much wasted, but also can be recycled such as elements of mobile phones and computers. But there are also something can only be burned into ashes because the lack of recycling value such as the removed precious metals circuit board. Our re-design should focus to the latter ones, with designer’s vision to find their value, so their lives continue.---------------------------------------------- In our researching of the waste recycling center, we found many “valuable” things: wasted plastic block of copper removed from the ammeter, through-flow fan of air conditioner, broken keyboards and variety of small wasted parts which nobody knows where they come from. We stumbled upon a few holes on the plastic block looks like an interesting face, so we start to find other “faces” in the collected electronic wastes, and then the birth of “pigmy family”- Mr. Glasses’ bed lights, couples toothbrush holder, small eyes notes boxes and big mouth tape shelf. These expressions in electronic waste have never been found before, a lot of waste products are valuable and they are actually very hard materials. They have beautiful patterns and abandoned just because of the broken of e-program or the cutting off of the connection, as long as the reasonable use, they can become a valuable product.

This course is about story telling, we have "Evil Design" as a theme to work wih. So here comes one of the most evil story we created based on the artifact "Worry dolls".