ShapeChips: Value formation in material ecosystem using buffer materials generated from wood chips
Kazzmasa Tsujimura, Yasuaki Kakehi · 2023
When discussing material circulation, there needs to be more focus on exploring ways professionals or users can create additional value by using the waste they generate. In this pictorial, we will discuss the potential of an autonomous ecosystem where waste material generators can proactively form a material circulation. Specifically, we focus on the production of a woodworker and the wood waste generated in the production process and then propose a “buffer material as a craft” developed through material tinkering by a designer we collaborated with to explore ways to reuse the wood waste. The proposed buffer materials allows the woodworker to make by himself and create new economic and aesthetic value to craft products by replacing existing typologies of buffer materials and introducing new packaging methods. Additionally, we explore the potential of these materials to form socio-environmental value by facilitating material circulation between woodworkers and users in a hyper-local area.