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MORE BIG NEWS! We won the PEA Awards Arts Category!!!
clairepotterdesign Sometimes you look back over a week and wonder how you will ever top it. They do not come around very often, but they are the glorious weeks where everything falls into place, all...
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Ghost Gear investigations… weeks two and three…
clairepotterdesign Weeks two and three on our Ghost Gear investigations have gone like an absolute flash. We have spent a huge amount of time cataloguing the HUGE amount of ghost gear that we have...
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Ghost Gear investigations… week four…
clairepotterdesign Week four has been a pretty big one in our Discover stage of our ghost gear investigation project – as it was also the Surfers Against Sewage Autumn Beach Clean Series week (and we...
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Ghost Gear investigations… weeks five and six…
clairepotterdesign So far, our project – ‘Investigating how Ghost Gear and Marine Plastic can become Precious Plastic’ has been focused on the ghost gear that can be picked up from beach cleans...
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Christmas wreaths from old stuff – we took the Emmaus UK Second Hand Santa...
clairepotterdesign We have a few favourite places in Brighton and Hove, but one of our favourites has to be Emmaus. Many a day has found us rummaging around in the various areas in their shops, finding...
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Ghost Gear investigations – week seven – the Net Hack Challenge…
clairepotterdesign WK 7 – Net Hack Challenge visit – Centre for Sustainable Design, Surrey. As we were undertaking our own Net Hack as part of this project in January 2018, we visited Prof Martin...
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Ghost Gear investigations – week eight, nine and ten – the surveys…
clairepotterdesign WK8-10 – following on from the community beach cleans, we ran a survey of attendees to ascertain their perception of ghost gear. Did they know where it came from? Who was...
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Ghost Gear investigations – weeks eleven and twelve – the Serious Game…
clairepotterdesign WK 11-12 – Serious Game Event, Waste House, Brighton: with a variety of stakeholders, this event was to ‘play’ out different situations related to the port area of Newhaven (sector 7...
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Ghost Gear investigations – weeks thirteen to fifteen…
clairepotterdesign As we headed to the end of the Define stage, it was clear that we had to go through an identification of key ‘ghost gear types’ types – especially the collections of pieces that were...
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Ghost Gear investigations – weeks sixteen and seventeen – the Net Hack…
clairepotterdesign Following on from the Serious Game in December in WK 12, we invited back the attendees, plus some designers to undertake a Net Hack Challenge, similar to the one we attended in WK7...
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Project: Net·Worth – the Precious Plastic Machines…
clairepotterdesign The final stages of the project were concentrated around the physical transformations of the material using the Precious Plastic open source plans – how can we use the existing...
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Project: Net·Worth – testing the materials…
clairepotterdesign Material processing… The first main discovery was the fact whilst the top hopper is perfect for pelleted plastic, the shape and lightweight nature of the net meant that it did not...
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Project: Net·Worth – what should we mould…
clairepotterdesign But what to mould…? For the first stages of the new product development we began looking back at the Serious Game results: What would most benefit the town – and residents of...
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Project: Net·Worth – the EL handle…
clairepotterdesign Specification… The handle needed to be sized to suit a cabinet and be able to be injection moulded by the machine itself, ie, not exceeding the maximum material volume in the tube....
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Project: Net·Worth – the final handle…
clairepotterdesign The final handle had some really interesting qualities. When the net was processed and injection moulded, the green fluctuated in colour – darkening down to a more muted shade that...
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