Design Studio
Design Studio
Petra Lilja was invited by researchers Åsa Ståhl & Kristina Lindström’s Un/Making Studio, to explore the possibility of un/making the plastic straw.
“There are emerging attempts to get rid of the plastic straw, at the same time as previous versions of the straw seem to be long lived and re-appear in new configurations and relationships. Our interest lies in both what is made and what is unmade in those proposals for new relationships.”
The project was exhibited as part of the exhibition Experiments for Utopia at Ystad Art Museum. Guiding questions were: How can we collectively care for waste that for different reasons do not end up in recycling systems? With a possible return to more durable and reusable products, questions regarding both work and care are raised. How does this potential shift affect the supposed care-free living that disposable products have enabled? What practices and artifacts become important? How can repetitive moments of communal drinking from a shared vessel affect our microbiological co-living?
Please read more about this project at Un/Making Studio’s website