ann arbor MICHIGAN
suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.
Meredith MILLER & Thom MORAN: A seasonal kiosk sited alongside Chicago’s lakefront, Plastic Sunrise does two seemingly opposite things at once: it creates a legible, referential form while simultaneously producing atmospheric effects in tandem with changing light from sunrise to sunset.
chicago, kiosk, meredith MILLER, plastics, thom MORAN
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brooklyn NEW YORK
Pratt Institute
critics: Richard SARRACH & Ajmal AQTASH.
suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.
Matthew LETA & Andrew REITZ: Blurred Lines is a Pratt Institute degree project by Andrew Reitz and Matthew Leta with critics Richard Sarrach and Ajmal Aqtash, along with frequenting guest critics Tulay Atak and Jeremy Carvalho.
3-D printing, Ajmal AQTASH, Andrew REITZ, architecture, G-code, Jeremy CARVALHO, material, Matthew LETA, plastics, Richard SARRACH, Tulay ATAK
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brooklyn NEW YORK
suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.
Souda: The Bubble Chandelier is a light fixture made from 60 post-consumer PET bottles that have been collected on the New York City streets by homeless individuals and people who collect cans. The project is being done in collaboration with Sure We Can, a nonprofit organization that runs NYC’s only homeless-friendly can redemption center.
light, lighting design, plastics, Souda
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philadelphia PENNSYLVANIA
University of Pennsylvania
critic: winka DUBBELDAM
suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.
tia CROCKER & mark SHKOLNIKOV: In response to the increased amounts of plastic found in our water, in particular the massive accumulation in the Pacific Ocean, known as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, this project proposes a solution that involves both collecting the plastic through a system of robots as well as using the collected plastic as a building material both on the Deepwater Island Habitat and ashore.
