SOFT EDGES
Year: 2022
Type: Research, concept
In collaboration with: Adam Davies (UK)
Organizer: British Council, Applied Arts Scotland, Playo & CAST Foundation
Exhibited: Indonesia Contemporary Art and Design (ICAD) 2022
Photos by: Diaz Adisastomo, Tŷ Syml
Altermatter is a Material-Centered Design workshop held
online between participants with experience in material development and product
design from Indonesia and the UK. In the four-week to the six-week workshop,
these participants have to develop everyday products using alternative
materials. At the end of the programme, they get to present and showcase
the 3D modeling concepts of their products.
Diaz Adisastomo and Adam Davies came up with Soft
Edges, a series of wooden furniture with sharp corners covered with bumpers
made of mycelium. Mycelium naturally latches onto different substances to help
mushrooms grow and form colonies. Its flexibility could be manipulated into
many different textures and shapes.
The mycelium bumper
comes in much more organic and irregular forms that become part of the table
that somehow starts with a small group of the organism and becomes something
much bigger, making it into a functional element.
https://www.altermatter.castfoundation.id/
