Forager Things
2020
Hans Tan Studio, DesignSingapore Council, Division of Industrial Design, NUS.
Graphics
gideon-jaime
Photography Credit
Khoogj
Edmund Ng
The COVID-19 situation makes us question the significance of capitalism that is underpinned by goods of mass manufacture.
Inspired by apocalyptic scenarios (in films) where survivors imaginatively put together essential products by foraging for things around them from ground zero, Forager Things presents two collections of objects that encourages us to recondition our perspectives towards mass produced items - considering a possible future where society has to relearn how to build and connect through analogue means.
Compositional Products brave functional fixedness by gathering existing parts and objects in an unimaginable manner to construct a product, while Experiential Mails imbue sentiments in analogue mails embedded into the physical experience of opening the mail.
