DIY

The Aesthetics of Corrosion

The Aesthetics of Corrosion

We try to avoid it: corrosion, wrinkles, or any other signs of aging.

Perhaps as architect Juhani Pallasmaa—author of The Eyes of the Skin—stated, the reason we prefer materials that don’t show age like glass or synthetic plastics is because we don’t want to be reminded of our immortality.

But what if we celebrate the pass of time?

Based on the work of the designer Lex Pott (and as part of the graduate studies I’m taking—a Master in Design through New Materials) we did a workshop at ELISAVA to decode and experiment with the way corrosion works.

DIY Materials

DIY Materials

The Do-It-Yourself movement is now expanding beyond products to the materials that embody the products themselves.

In comparison to the industrial ones, DIY-Materials are "created through individual or collective self-production practices, often by techniques and processes of the designer's invention. They can be entirely new materials, modified or further developed versions of existing materials".

I had the opportunity to attend a lecture on DIY-Materials by Marta Gonzalez, PhD in Science of Materials and Metallurgic Engineering, and Senior Researcher in Elisava Research, and I'll share an outline of it here, with examples of their applications.