Project Statement and Product Description:
Sustainable Systems Project Statement and Product Description
According to statistics recorded by National Geographic in 2018, “Of the 8.3 billion metric tons that has been produced, 6.3 billion metric tons has become plastic waste…only nine percent has been recycled”[1], which means that people around the world are having the cultures of excessively depending on plastics packaging their items, but they ignored the time that takes plastics to degrade. Meanwhile, influenced by the class project “Upcycled Plastic Bag”, I was aware of the numbers of plastics used in every single food delivery, so I decided to cover my final projects on the issues around plastic food containers and propose disruptive designs on the unsustainable system of plastic containers.
[1] Laura Parker, Here’s How Much Trash is Littering the Earth, (National Geographic).
System Map
Final Product
Process
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- Contrast between wet (left) and dry (right) lotus leave
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- experiment on stitches
Boiling and soften the lotus leaves
Cut into small pieces, 3″ x 3″, and zig-zag stitch them onto 9″ x 12″ water soluble embroidery stabilizer
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- Processed with VSCO with av8 preset
Make the “interface” for the container and stitch the two 9″ x 12″ pieces together on three sides
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- “Interface” of the container
Make the gusset to create depth, clean finish and complete
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- Gusset
