Why take something from nature, when you can make it yourself? We demonstrated that by making corals from rugs. But they are not just simple objects for interior decoration, they are also lights that bring life into cold space.

We used waste rugs to create something useful and meaningful without hurting the environment.

CORALS are made from soft rugs, which can wrinkle. Before they were sown, we pulled some strings from the rugs and created a bigger surface for the light inside the coral shape. The strings that were pulled away from the rug were used as sewing thread, so that there is no waste material in the process of creating Corals. For the shape of corals, we created rope frames in a form of a globe on which we have sown the rug. Finally, we carefully placed a light bulb in the frame so that it did not touch any rug covered surface. Then we lit the Corals to see the real effect of the light.

Today, redesign is becoming an increasingly important part of. We went one step forward and not only did a redesign, but made a replacement for an important part of natural ecosystem, which is used for interior decorations, corals. We succeeded doing that by changing the original shape and functions of rugs using redesign and by doing that we created a shape that is similar to the shape of corals, which are living habitats for many sea creatures and are used and destroyed by humans especially for the purpose of tourism. We are offering an alternative to having a beautiful coral decorating your interior, without destroying the natural ecosystem and using redesign as well.

Our message is to do something yourself, like using waste materials to create something that will save a life of some living being that would otherwise end up as a decoration for our home.

This was a team project on which I was working with Ajda Regali Knez and Sarah Osterc.