Studio Form x Young Urbanists: FORM
ACTIVATION
Studio Form and Young Urbanists collaborate on FORM, a public-space experiment at Nine Yards that brings material design and urbanism into the same project.
FORM asks how one simple object can become many things in public space. Studio Form has developed a modular brick made from recycled plastic waste and sand. Together with Young Urbanists, the public exhibition explores how a new kind of kerb, seat or public-space element could work. For Design Week, 20 prototypes will be tested at Nine Yards.
They can be stacked into stools, table bases, planter edges, boundaries or supports, or used in ways we have not thought of yet.
Visitors can use the pieces, move around them and share feedback. Studio Form leads the design and material development, Young Urbanists looks at how they can work in the public realm, and Crutchfield Engineering is manufacturing the prototypes.
FORM is the first public test of a longer-term idea around recycled materials, local production and better South African public spaces.
This event forms part of Design Week South Africa’s UNBUILT programme, a series exploring the future of South Africa’s built environment, sponsored by dhk Architects.