Asterism: In astronomy, an asterism is a pattern of stars recognized on Earth’s night sky.
An asterism may also be a section of a constellation that refers to the traditional figuring of the whole. Asterism, the astronomy term, has been introduced referring to a diverse group of waste spectators with strongly polarised relational connections e.g. political, social, economic, cultural, material, ethical and aesthetical.
Designedisposal asterism strives to incorporate design activism, craft making, exposition, workshop engagement and trash aesthetics; to facilitate rather than dictate using the exhibition, installation, design workshop platform, and initiating action research and critical design debate. Praxis continues to nurture a complex meta space, self-entangled in design research, craft making practice and environmental education, informed by various marine scientific and waste management and recycling data. Thereby, this participatory research will engage initially in creating a meta-mapping interventions and follow entanglement between non-humans, plastic products and waste systems in order to raise alternative scenarios platform and vision for futures.
Designedisposal: Designing from and with plastic disposal. Designedisposal, stands for all designed things, short lived as made for disposal.
Threefold: as an approach (and) manifesto (and) personal statement for KraalD practice.
As approach: To use design to prototype new kinds of behaviour and new forms of values and desires; to concisely seek new modes for urban sustainable living, as it seems imperative to start fundamentally reimagining the way we think, design, organize and dispose in urban futures. The praxis continues to nurture a complex meta space, self-entangled in design research, craft making practice and environmental education, informed by various marine scientific and waste management and recycling data. Thereby, this participatory research will engage initially in creating a meta-mapping interventions and follow entanglement between non-humans, plastic products and waste systems in order to raise alternative scenarios and vision for futures.
As manifesto: “Gross National Happiness is more important than Gross National Product” states Jigme Singye Wangchuck, King of Bhutan. GNH was commissioned and developed as a sophisticated survey instrument to measure the population’s general level of wellbeing. It is a noble attempt to define and indicate what measures quality of life or social progress in more holistic terms than only the economic indicator of gross domestic product. The four pillars of GNH are the promotion of sustainable development, preservation of cultural values, conservation of the natural environment, and establishment of good governance.
As personal statement: This is a simple narrative. Urban plastic trash is my study, thing to desire and reused material.
Designtransposal: Creatively desires to narrate the social and material life of plastic disposal. Following Rosi Braidotti, the very interconnection is a sign of transposition, that is to say a creative leap that produces a prolific in-between space. Thus, this research adopts the term of transposal, as the “state of being transposed” “not merely in the quantitative mode of plural multiplications, but rather in the qualitative sense of complex multiplicities.” (Braidotti, 2006, p. 5)
Kraal: Southern African term, circular dwelling for a small farm community or for a livestock enclosure.
KraalD is a design social narrative, integrating plastic waste materials in a purposeful and productive manner. This small praxis revolves around the Designedisposal manifesto, aiming to initiate and co-creatively facilitate, via exhibitions and urban workshops, the promotion of minimisation of London’s future landfill. It is engaged in exploring recycling and up-cycle design strategies, and to promote plastic waste ethos and design activism.
KraalD questions the social, symbolic and ideational effects of the material world, and of transformations, transpositions; To ask not whether or not things exist but what/how to relate to.
I/We stands in a relation to individual and the Global waste contribution.
Homos Purgamentum: term is derived from Latin, in research context, term stands for human rubbish and related behaviour.
In service to Σοφíα. Greek origin Σοφíα, meaning wisdom, Coptic meaning knowledge. In Gnostic tradition and in the Nag Hammadi texts, Σοφíα is the lowest Aeon, the anthropic expression of the emanation of the light of God. She has been considered to have drifted away from divine source in some way. Fallen from the fringe and in so doing creating the material world. The Universe. (See more from: Wesselman, 2016, The Re-enchantment).