Collage of tube residue recovery, personal archive
In this interview, taking into account the audience the magazine was addressing, I drew attention to the social responsibility component of the concept – and the role of educator of society, which the designer can have through his objects: \”The decision to keep these leftovers does not come only from design.
It comes from an ambition of STUDIOPLOT to leave behind as little waste as possible from our activity. They are \”waste\” that we should not call that. Not as long as we can reuse or reinterpret them. Some call it internal regulations, office ethics, but we see it as a new standard of life, of society.
We even managed to reuse the leftovers from the tubes, some are braces for attaching the tubes, and with the others we make washers and give our clients the boards stuck in them.\”
At that time, pre-doctoral, I did not suspect that the advanced attitude is a typical one that describes the processes by which biological systems in nature operate in an efficient multi-epoch circularity, a function described in the subchapter on the work of architect Michael Pawlyn and in the one on the Cradle to Cradle concept of William McDonough.
During this period, we began to ask ourselves the question of the tube residues that remained after the modular assembly (in the images on the right), in 2013 using them to package the rolls of sheets for STUDIOPLOT clients.
Later, in 2016, we developed a range of lighting fixtures with them, moving to an Upcycle 2.0 level of plotting waste.