London-based designer Yesenia Thibault-Picazo has created three household objects for the anthropocene era, using materials she believes will be used by craftsmen hundreds of years in the future.
Called Craft in the Anthropocene, the project is centred around the proposed new geological era, in which human impact is the dominant force on the earth's natural materials.
The Craft in the Anthropocene collection includes a pestle made from Cumbrian bone marble – a material that resulted from the foot and mouth crisisDescribed as "time capsules for an imagined future", the collection features a pestle, a mortar and a vessel made from raw materials that Thibault-Picazo believes will one day be mined as valuable resources. "Through our collective actions, we have become over time, a global geophysical force intertwined with the most powerful forces of nature, rare in the pre-human era, which will become prevalent sediments, building up the future planetary strata," said the designer.
This goes with a mortar made from Pacific plastic crust – a conceptual material made from ocean plastic merged with the earth's crustEach material responds to a different environmental challenge, such as animal farming and plastic waste.
"The objects offer an extreme projection in a far future of what would become the terrestrial minerals if our civilisation doesn't change its conception of resources consumption," she continued.
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