Revitalization/renovation , making and exchange  dialogue between old a new in furniture

 Revitalization/renovation , making and exchange to find the dialogue between old and new in furniture

It is not new to say reusing and recycling are recurrent concepts in nowadays life.With their use ranging from marketing strategies to environmental politics, the internet is plenty of platforms , tutorials, networks and all sort of their projects related to this ideas.

The Wikipedia entry for 'reuse' tell us about the difference between “ The conventional reuse where the item is used again for the same function, and new-life reuse where it is used for a different function. In contrast, recycling is the breaking down of the used items into raw materials which are used to make new items”. Even of view it also mentions , among the advantages of reusing , that “some older items were better handcrafted and appreciate in value”.

My proposal takes this, and other ideas, as the Romantic concept of “ patina” from John Ruskin in consideration to establish its objective. By using parts of used furniture pieces , which after being integrated with new materials as part of a new object I am expecting to generate a dialogue between old/used and new/unused. I am especially

interested in the idea of 'value' as used in the sentence from the article mentioned above

and the potential exchange of this value between new/pristine and old/historic.By confronting this concepts in new completed objects I would like to gain a better understanding of the dynamics of the exchange of value . How does it add? How does it subtract? This is some of the questions I am planning to answer.

Another crucial part of my proposal is to investigate different crafts in order to understand their suitability in a production process. At this starting point, based on my personal experience ,observation of design trends and specially folklore culture of my country, is my understanding that in particular 'one off' and ' small batch' are the production methods that brings more value to its results and for this reason this are the ones that better fits with the main idea behind my proposal: the concept of value related to the fields of contemporary crafts and design.