AWARD YEAR
2021
CATEGORY
Play & Learning
GOALS
Quality Education, Responsible Consumption & Production
KEYWORDS
DIY, furniture , wood , design for community
COUNTRY
Portugal
DESIGNED BY
Mariana Bettencourt Costa e Silva
WEBSITE
http://marianacostaesilva.com/faz/
Faz Com As Tuas Mãos
Teaching communities to make their own furniture
"As a designer I have been struggling to get my pieces to users. The production-distribution-consumption chain is too expensive. The simplest way is to design pieces of furniture that are easy for beginners to build and teach user-builders how to make them. The added value is to provide the gratification of doing something with our own hands and to realize that we can be agents of doing many other things.
In this sense, I designed a chair, a stool, a bench, a table, children's pieces and others, using wood, pallets and easy-to-find materials. This models are design to be built by different age groups, with a saw, hammer, screwdriver or just paintbrush in periods between 45 minutes to 6 hours.
These models are free to use and I only ask for a royaltie when the pieces are for commercial purposes."