DATA COLLECTION METHODOLOGY:
- Participants were asked to go around the studio and bring back a found material.
- If we had any repeats – go and select again.
- [Discussion] Are there any materials we think are missing from our selection of materials which represent materials commonly used in the studio?
- Go and select missing materials.
DATA SET:
DATA CATEGORISATION:
As a group we tried to categorise this data by putting them in an order of what we thought required the lest to most carbon to produce. See order below.
- Clay
- Wood
- Jute String / PLA
- Paper
- Fabric
- Nylon Rope
- Plastic / Perspex
- Foam / Wire
FURTHER RESEARCH:
We decided to conduct further research by each selecting a material and diagramming the production process to produce that material in order to gain a better understanding of the carbon required for each material.
DATA CATEGORISATION II:
After conducting further research we adjusted our categorisation of materials which we now considered required the least to most carbon to produce.
- Clay
- Jute String
- Wood
- Paper
- PLA
- Nylon Rope
- Plastic / Perspex
- Wire / Fabric
- Foam
REFLECTION:
We decided that for our area of research it might be helpful to categorise the materials by what is currently re-usable/ recyclable in the studio and what we consider waste.
Reflecting on this categorisation, we decided that we would like to focus our research on looking at ways we could re-use or re-purpose materials that are considered waste.
NEXT STEPS:
We are going to collect plastic we find in the studio over the next two weeks until the next workshop.