Downstairs |

Ben Styles

[PROCESS] INTERTWINED

.

"CASE STUDY: IRON". (2024), six speculative objects.
Each iron measures (approx) 190mm L x 120mm W x 180mm H
displayed on 2 x steel tables measuring 1830mm L x 610mm W x 890mm H (available for exhibition if required)

"[IRON] Intertwined". (2024), Video.
Duration: 7:07 (with sound)
Size: 1920 x 1080 pixels (wide panoramic format)

"[PROCESS] INTERTWINED"
Wall hanging / hanging :
- 6 x photos printed at 297 mm x 420 mm (A3)
- (up to) 4 x A0 worksheets (Syd. Design Week Workshop)
Display:
- (up to) 22 x Prototypes/Models requiring between 1.5 m2 to 2 m2 of floor or surface space
- 1 x Iron 'set lay' 500mm x 500mm

Ben is an emerging speculative designer who situates his practice in the liminal space between designer and artist. He engages audiences beyond the ‘designerly’, giving voice to all object-owners in open discussion and critique of mass-manufacture, planned obsolescence and overconsumption.

His works populate carefully researched & structured realities, where industrial design methodologies pair with playfulness and imagination to propose sustainable futures where embedding emotional durability in objects is an unquestionable requirement of the design process. His work focuses on e-waste and the most pervasive and mundane of everyday electronic objects; their design, history and our rituals and relationships with them.