New Designers 08: Goldsmiths University graduate Oliver Bishop-Young presented two projects about skips at New Designers in London earlier this month.
The first is a proposal for a website where people upload information about the contents of skips so others can salvage items they need from them. Update 31/07/08: see more photos of SkipWaste in our new story here.
The SkipWaste site would be searchable by items required or location and shows a photo of each skip plus its location on a map. Visit a demo version of the website here.
The second project (shown here) involved converting empty skips into public spaces such as skate parks, swimming pools and gardens.
The following information is from Bishop-Young:
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My work focuses on skips and looks at three main areas: exchange of waste materials, re-use of waste and making use of wasted spaces.
SkipWaste.org.uk is a site that documents the contents and locations of skips, allowing the exchange of materials before they go to landfill.
These three attachments (below) aide the recovery of materials from skips. The plinth elevates the status of last object added to the skip and makes it easily accessible.
It can be shameful for some to be seen peering into a skip, the mirror makes it easy to see inside at a glance. A black board contents pagedocuments all that is added and removed from a skip, providing a catalogue of what is on offer.
Skip ramp is made from a collection of materials gathered from skips; it reuses them to form a mini ramp in a skip. Pete King a professional skater along with Sidewalk magazine came to do an article on the design. Skip ramp was one of many conversions made to the skip using reclaimed materials.
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Posted by Rose Etherington
July 21st, 2008 at 5:13 pm
So british !
Cool work
July 21st, 2008 at 5:58 pm
inspiring vibes
July 21st, 2008 at 6:41 pm
interesting work! congratulations!
July 21st, 2008 at 7:04 pm
fantastic!
July 21st, 2008 at 7:54 pm
Ah…good old plagiarism!
http://www.recetasurbanas.net/ref_a/a1/a1_eng.php
July 21st, 2008 at 8:02 pm
Superb, clever, critical.
July 21st, 2008 at 8:28 pm
Really love these ideas… !
July 21st, 2008 at 10:30 pm
I am afraid Santiago Cirugeda had done that quite years earlier in Spain.
July 21st, 2008 at 11:25 pm
Frankie, I think it also has something “spanish”
One of the Santiago Cirujeda “Urban Prescriptions”?
http://www.recetasurbanas.net/ref_a/a1/a1_esp.php
and before Santiago… the “parked Island barges on the Hudson” from Matta Clark?
but anyway, fantastic vibes as mama says
July 22nd, 2008 at 12:24 am
“Ah…good old plagiarism!
http://www.recetasurbanas.net/ref_a/a1/a1_eng.php”
The SEVILLA project looks at the skips as a stage, where proposed social activities take place on top of the installation, while here Bishop-Young takes a more thorough approach in realizing the actual inherent spatial qualities of the skips, thus allowing for much more interesting spaces with less intervention.
This is a different (and stronger) project. Conor, the only similarity here is the initial approach of recycling skips, and its ridiculous to reject a designer’s solution merely on the basis that it recalls a previous (unsuccessful, in my opinion) work.
July 22nd, 2008 at 1:17 am
Very engaging and vibrant. I love the skateboarding shots.
July 22nd, 2008 at 3:35 am
Genius.
July 22nd, 2008 at 3:55 am
I would have a ball pit!
July 22nd, 2008 at 4:09 am
Cirugeda’s work is far more interesting, both in a design and political sense. In comparison this seems pretty damn bland.
July 22nd, 2008 at 4:43 am
fantastic , Super, Nice………..usw
July 22nd, 2008 at 10:37 am
Ahh, i love entertaining ideas and also cheeky street actions that reclaim public space!
Here is another version of the skip bin hack, with a conceptual twist, by french-canadian sculptor Michel de Broin, titled Blue Monochrom, made in 2003. It converts a dumpster skip bin into a functioning spa bath.
http://www.micheldebroin.org/projects/bluemono/index.html
July 22nd, 2008 at 2:27 pm
While we’re talking skips… Here’s a project by Kevin Harman for this year’s degree show at Edinburgh College of Art:
http://www.theskinny.co.uk/gallery/25-showcasekevin-harman
PS Like the pool idea!
July 22nd, 2008 at 3:46 pm
fun in a box
July 22nd, 2008 at 5:39 pm
It’s a wonderful idea to bring some green and laugh into a city. And if more than one person in the world have the same idea, it is even better
Thank you.
July 23rd, 2008 at 12:52 am
That last picture….literal dumpster diving.
July 23rd, 2008 at 10:59 am
Yet another pointless exercise in taking an object that works perfectly as it should and making it into another with limited success….
July 23rd, 2008 at 1:14 pm
what a sense of humour…
very british
love it
July 26th, 2008 at 1:48 pm
This is THE BEST USE OF A SKIP EVER!!!!!!!!!!!
http://WWW.SKIPCAR.CO.UK
July 27th, 2008 at 12:04 am
Innovative.
July 27th, 2008 at 6:35 am
Am the only one wondering how the little boy didnt get hurt jumping in to such shallow water?
July 30th, 2008 at 3:53 pm
Great Ideas! Keep up the good work!
July 31st, 2008 at 1:00 am
cheer up billy brown! My god, where’s the fun? i’ll leave you to your efficient removal of waste materials while i sit on a bench on some grass on a skip in the middle of a busy brick lane.
July 31st, 2008 at 1:12 am
i read fresh?? Copy… Cirugeda’s work is much better.
July 31st, 2008 at 8:01 pm
It is pretty astonishing that lots of people find it ‘fresh’ , ‘innovative’ and ‘genius’, despite the fact that the link of Cirugeda’s work is already posted .
http://www.recetasurbanas.net/index_eng.php
August 4th, 2008 at 1:53 am
@Alix: Yes
August 11th, 2008 at 11:06 pm
Alix, I didn’t get hurt. It was very refreshing!
August 14th, 2008 at 9:42 pm
Thats pretty cool