Fish Scale
This is a project based on a 5-days REFISH workshop conducted by ︎︎︎National Taiwan Craft Research and Development Institut (Nantou, TAIWAN). Team work with Emma Lutz, Huang Pei-Chi, Rei Sakura (International collaboration between Taiwan, Japan and France)
Marine waste is the most commonly shared and significant issue of marine worldwide and especially in Taiwan. It kind of reveals the consequences of human civilization in an irreversible way. Like those common scenes—plastics, packages, fishing industry products scattered on the shore and formed an artificial landscape that no one cares about.
Since the material we use in this workshop is fish-scale, we decided to work with beach and based on the fact of giving back to the sea what the sea gave us.
We first did a very quick experiment and found the printed material will dissolve into water after 2 hours. Therefore, we focused on developing one-time items that can be used at beach and comes back to the sea without negative effect. A lot of marine waste are found everyday on the beach from around the world. As part of these waste, many of them are forgotten kids toys. All the stories kids create with these toys are now silent.
Therefore we created beach toys inspired by Taiwan coral reef in order to create new stories and deepen the relationship between people and the ocean. 3D printed out of fish scale these toys are meant to be forgotten and broken. The stories they tell will disappear with time, tide and wind. The most important thing is to be there when they are told and keep the memories of these moments.
Year: 2023
Photography by Emma Lutz
Workshop curation and set up by Lin Yi-Shiang, Li Jian-You and Chen Guan-Cheng as part of NTCRI research programm.
Fish Sacle material research by Li Jian-You, Lai Ts- Ching
3D printing techical supported by Li Jian-You, Wu Xin-Zhi, Zhang Yi-Cheng, Tsai Jia-Lin
All rights reserved to National Taiwan Craft Research and Development Institut (Nantou, TAIWAN)
This is a project based on a 5-days REFISH workshop conducted by ︎︎︎National Taiwan Craft Research and Development Institut (Nantou, TAIWAN). Team work with Emma Lutz, Huang Pei-Chi, Rei Sakura (International collaboration between Taiwan, Japan and France)
Marine waste is the most commonly shared and significant issue of marine worldwide and especially in Taiwan. It kind of reveals the consequences of human civilization in an irreversible way. Like those common scenes—plastics, packages, fishing industry products scattered on the shore and formed an artificial landscape that no one cares about.
Since the material we use in this workshop is fish-scale, we decided to work with beach and based on the fact of giving back to the sea what the sea gave us.
We first did a very quick experiment and found the printed material will dissolve into water after 2 hours. Therefore, we focused on developing one-time items that can be used at beach and comes back to the sea without negative effect. A lot of marine waste are found everyday on the beach from around the world. As part of these waste, many of them are forgotten kids toys. All the stories kids create with these toys are now silent.
Therefore we created beach toys inspired by Taiwan coral reef in order to create new stories and deepen the relationship between people and the ocean. 3D printed out of fish scale these toys are meant to be forgotten and broken. The stories they tell will disappear with time, tide and wind. The most important thing is to be there when they are told and keep the memories of these moments.
Year: 2023
Photography by Emma Lutz
Workshop curation and set up by Lin Yi-Shiang, Li Jian-You and Chen Guan-Cheng as part of NTCRI research programm.
Fish Sacle material research by Li Jian-You, Lai Ts- Ching
3D printing techical supported by Li Jian-You, Wu Xin-Zhi, Zhang Yi-Cheng, Tsai Jia-Lin
All rights reserved to National Taiwan Craft Research and Development Institut (Nantou, TAIWAN)
︎︎︎MODULES
We designed a series of components corresponding to the common coral types in Taiwan. With these modules at hand, kids can recreated the marine scene by stamping and layering.
Plank leaves coral
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Lumps coral
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Plates coral
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Group coral
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