Modelling week Peter Marigold

Peter Marigold;

rejection of ostentatious and wasteful ornamentation reveals a new direction that is refreshingly free of pretence.

explore ideas rather than ‘come up’ with ideas.

During this time I have learned to think more with my head than with doodles in my sketchbook.

The world that I live in is chaotic and densely populated by junk, both collected things and simple rubbish. It’s not a perfect place but it is consistent. Like wise, English homes are usually consistent in their shared irregularities – pokey architectural spaces, weird under-hangs, and unusable corners. I was interested in how a piece of furniture might adapt to and therefore reflect our acceptance of living with these innate problems.

altering behavioural patterns

I began chopping up the geometry of simple fruit boxes, learning how the ratios between top, bottom and sliced side worked best in terms of versatility of the overall dimensions and physical behaviour. I then progressed to larger units that also incorporated crate making materials and elements – such as cheap shuttering plywood and cut out handles. I was interested in how the dual identities of the units – as shelves, and as boxes – could suggest a feeling of temporary existence (as well as adapting to the different spaces, the units can be used as packing crates when moving house).

why should we (people who make things) be attempting to imitate such processes at the initial stages of product development?
(Quotes from design museum interview with Peter Marigold)
Presentation

"British design has the ability to carry design baggage and not start from scratch"

"The nature of design, what happens when things go wrong"

"Order is chaos"

"The world is order, part of humanity"

"Breaking a drawer back down into its raw material"

"Imagining that inside objects there are other objects"

"Finding unexpected order"

"Chopping up geometry to see what happens"

"Turning a table into a leaf- turning things inside out"