Client: FESTA (Festival of Transitional Architecture)

Team: Katie Deller, Maggie Meiklejohn, Rachael van Wieringen, Nicki Gordon, Claire Huang, Calvin Lai, Nicole Gesmundo, Franziska Steinkohl, Sarah Joubert (myself) in collaboration with Jo Bailey, Nick Kapica and Julia Morrison (artist).

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'FESTA is a vibrant weekend celebration of urban creativity and regeneration in Christchurch. It is an opportunity for the public to experience a reimagined city, comprising imaginative architectural installations, workshops, talks, pop-up projects, family events, tours, live performance, artworks and more. The headline event – a spectacular temporary city – attracts thousands at each edition and is live for one night only.'

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The theme for 2016's festival was We Have the Means, which focuses on citizen-initiated urban regeneration and sustainability through the reuse of waste materials in design. Our studio of nine cross-disciplinary designers explored sustainability through the repurposing of waste materials in design and urban regeneration. We located waste streams within Wellington and collected a variety of materials, ranging in scale, durability and aesthetics. Our experiments started with things we'd found skip diving and resulting in us settling on large upholsterers cardboard tubes.  

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Our final pavilion consisted of 150 hand-painted tubes which were mounted onto a triangular scaffolding type structure. At night, the installation was illuminated by various projections we curated from our many material tests that lead to the final structure. Words were stencilled on the bottom of each pipe in hopes to inspire people to re-imagine what waste actually was. 

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Awards:

2017 SEGD Global Design Award for Excellent User Experience

Exposure:

1. https://www.thebigidea.nz/stories/pipe-dreaming-for-christchurch 

2. https://segd.org/pipe-dreaming-festa

3. http://www.pechakucha.org/users/sarah-joubert