Lottery Desire Recycling Project Furniture Series by Chi-Wei Yu |
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| DESIGN NAME: Lottery Desire Recycling Project PRIMARY FUNCTION: Furniture Series INSPIRATION: In Taiwan, lottery ticket sales generate over $5 billion USD annually, with an average of 16 tickets sold per second. Purchasing lottery tickets has become a national pastime. I hope to materialize the visualization of desire into physical objects, thereby magnifying the irony of people's desire for money. UNIQUE PROPERTIES / PROJECT DESCRIPTION: Desire. Has desire turned money into garbage? The Lottery Desire Recycling Project reimagines the reuse of discarded betting slips through innovative structures and thinking, showcasing the powerful desire for wealth through layered structuring. Actual statistics of lottery betting volumes in different cities in Taiwan are directly incorporated into furniture designs. The structures formed by stacking large quantities of discarded paper directly reflect both the waste of paper and the desire for money. OPERATION / FLOW / INTERACTION: Ironically, you can place it directly outside the lottery shops that generate this desire, corresponding to the amount of waste produced by those shops in a week or a few days. PROJECT DURATION AND LOCATION: The project commenced in Taipei in July 2023 and concluded in Taipei in January 2024. FITS BEST INTO CATEGORY: Social Design |
PRODUCTION / REALIZATION TECHNOLOGY: My structural fabrication process is as follows. 1.Collect I actually collected discarded betting slips from two lottery shops at Taiwan. 2.Wave Structure I actually layered the discarded betting slips one by one on a foam board, pressing them to form a stack. 3.Combine Finally, I cut them into thin strips, forming individual structural units, and assembled them into a mesh-like structure. SPECIFICATIONS / TECHNICAL PROPERTIES: lamp:Width 300mm x Depth 300mm x Height 1650mm desk:Width 540mm x Depth 540mm x Height 630mm chair:Width 480mm x Depth 400mm x Height 530mm TAGS: desire, lottery, paper, reuse, Taiwanese, money, betting slips RESEARCH ABSTRACT: I actually gathered data on the average weekly betting sales from two lottery shops in both Taiwan city. With the actual data provided by the Taiwan Lottery Company, I directly applied this data to the design of the furniture set. I used 415 betting slips to create the chair ($42,665 in sales), 635 betting slips to create the table ($65,875 in sales), and 702 betting slips to create the lamp ($72,325 in sales). CHALLENGE: The most challenging aspect of this project was how to transform the abstract concept of desire into something tangible and visually impactful. I experimented with various methods and ultimately chose to directly represent the daily number of bets and amounts wagered by Taiwanese people in the most ironic way possible by creating physical furniture sets. This allows people to tangibly experience the enormity of betting when using the furniture. ADDED DATE: 2024-02-27 03:54:50 TEAM MEMBERS (1) : Chi-Wei Yu IMAGE CREDITS: Image #1: Desiger Chi-Wei Yu, Lottery Desire Transfer Project, 2024. Image #2: Desiger Chi-Wei Yu, Lottery Desire Transfer Project, 2024. Image #3: Desiger Chi-Wei Yu, Lottery Desire Transfer Project, 2024. Image #4: Desiger Chi-Wei Yu, Lottery Desire Transfer Project, 2024. Image #5: Desiger Chi-Wei Yu, Lottery Desire Transfer Project, 2024. |
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Lottery Desire Recycling Project Furniture Series by Chi-Wei Yu is Runner-up for A' Design Award in Furniture Design Category, 2023 - 2024.· Press Members: Login or Register to request an exclusive interview with Chi-Wei Yu. · Click here to register inorder to view the profile and other works by Chi-Wei Yu. |
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