Wheelie- picnic basket
Stefanie Fink
Student
Stefanie Fink Academic staff
Francesco Alessandro Faccin Alessandro Mason Course
STANDARD Program
BA Major Design Semester
2022/23 WS WHEELIE
What about a new picnic basket? A bigger one whose look is not traditional and ordinary?
Inspired by the XYZ CARGO bikes from Copenhagen and Hamburg, a new picnic basket on a wheel called Wheelie has been developed. The look is anything but traditional for a picnic basket it is large and therefore has plenty of storage space for a large picnic with friends. The construction is simple and complex at the same time and consists of various standard materials. Plywood, iron, a wheel and many nuts and bolts thus became the basis of my product.
A project made in the course
STANDARD
“I take an industrial object, an unquestionably beautiful object because it is absolute, I make a small intervention, I introduce a dissonant element, this is design. I wanted to highlight that the use of the semi-finished product where there is no aesthetic concern always gives rise to a perfect object” (Enzo Mari) In this semester starting from standard products given by the contemporary industry, unified at an international level, we will try to retrace the spirit that guided Enzo Mari to the realization of one of the most emblematic and radical projects in the history of Italian design: the putrella series. designed in 1958. This apparently simple object comes from deep reflections and gives us the opportunity to reflect on issues such as: efficiency and alienation of work, extractivism and geopolitics, sustainability of processes, logistics and last but not least, aesthetics.
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