Furniture made from London's broken bike locks features in People and Places exhibition - architecture and design

Furniture made from London's broken bike locks features in People and Places exhibition



Design students from the Chelsea College of Arts have staged an exhibition at Yorkton Workshops in Hackney that acts as "a microcosm of London" and explores the issues keeping its residents up at night.
The show, called People and Places, was curated by Dezeen Award-winning designer Liang-Jung Chen and includes projects that find new uses for hyper-local materials ? from broken locks left behind by bike thieves to clay foraged from Hampstead Heath.
The People and Places exhibition (top image) includes works by 14 design students including Cameron Griffin (above)
Created by 14 designers from eight different countries, the works on display also broach more far-flung topics around belonging and emigration, including a set of zero-gravity tableware designed for space travel. "The cohort is quite diverse in all aspects," Chen told Dezeen. "Not all of them are young. Some of them decided to change their career path and came into design at middle age. I really feel like it's a microcosm of London."
Hannah Rot created lampshades made from unfired local clay
Among the projects that reference the city most explicitly is 20,000 by Cameron Griffin, a furniture collection named after the number of bikes stolen in the capital every year.
It features stools made using the many useless bike locks left behind on fences and bike racks in the wake of these thefts.
"The problem is, because the keys are not there, you can't really open the locks," Chen s...
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