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Earrings made from marine plastic pieces and gold fittings. The pieces were collected from Singløya, Østfold, Norway.

Earrings made from marine plastic pieces and gold fittings. The pieces were collected from Singløya, Østfold, Norway.

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Tons of plastic waste pile up in our oceans by the minute. This paper discusses a jewellery design project where anthropogenic debris takes centre stage. The project investigates how marine plastic trash literally may be turned into treasures through approaches that transverse design, craft and communication design. The main design material are pla...

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... explorative jewellery project. The project specifically revolves around a close study of plastic pieces collected from the shores of Norway. It inquires into how these may be turned into discursive and embodied objects that may be worn as fully functional jewellery. The beach at Singløya has since then become a source of material (see fig. 1, 12 & 13). This paper discusses how we might approach marine plastic, what is referred to as marine anthropogenic debris (Jagiello, 2017), as a potential discursive design material through the medium of contemporary jewellery. With close reference to notions of care, embodiment, and discursive design, this paper asks how care for the ...
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... plastic pollution is now on the agenda politically and is a problem that needs to be solved on a global scale now. Just to be clear: We do not believe that the pieces of jewellery discussed in this paper will change the world ( fig.12). One might even argue that designing jewellery from carefully selected pieces of marine plastic debris not really matters. ...
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... interesting because of its shape, colour, or texture is taken slightly aside. Pieces we particularly like are placed on one end of the surface, and typically they are matched with pieces we believe might enter an aesthetic 'conversation' with another one. Sometimes we find 'given' pairs, that is two pieces that are similar to one another (see fig. 10). Because our 'studio space' is our living room floor, we equip ourselves with headlamps to see the nuances, cracks and textures better. Earring pairs in the making are placed on a different surface and is often left for review for a couple of days ( fig. 5). We design custom fittings, and a local goldsmith produces them for us. We use ...
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... many of the origins of many of the pieces we use in our jewelelry are unknown to us, pieces with reference to construction sites, hunting, boats and fishing frequently appear. Some pieces, such as the lower ones in figure 11 are melted into shapes that are hard to relate to specific objects or domains. Figure 9. ...
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... is informal in the sense that people who in various ways become involved in the project can contribute with their time, efforts, and competencies as part of a collaborative practice. However, jewellery as a communication platform is also explored via a range of mediations so as to reach a diverse audience outside of academia (fig 12 & 13). This aspect of the project includes for example the use of social media platforms such as Instagram1, and Facebook. ...
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... aspect of the project includes for example the use of social media platforms such as Instagram1, and Facebook. The exploration of the discursive outcomes of mediations of the project also involves presentations in fashion-and life style magazines (fig 12 & 13). Drawing on Arnall (2013), a significant part of the design process has to do with mediational material. ...
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... Care is thus articulated as a slightly provocative, but also unobtrusive aesthetic invitation to reflect upon on the different, and at times unexpected cycles of use and misuse our industrially designed plastic objects go through. As screw caps often is marked with a brand logo, these logos are repositioned when visible in a pair of earrings ( fig. 15). The logos 'talk' back, but this time, the 'conversation' is directed towards the idea of these brand's responsibility for the harm their products ...
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... endures, even as it is slowly grinded into smaller and smaller fragments, it degrades extremely slowly. Figure 16. Earrings made of old screw caps, maybe from the 1960's. ...

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