ROOTED

Masters Project with Andrea Báez, Amalia Puga, Pedro Pascoa, Maria Cristina Huertas, Serra Güngör
This is a collection of objects using new emerging materials that focuses on creating a feeling of connection and groundness to the earth. The object aims to highlight nature and bring people outdoors, inciting a sense of exploration beyond the earth's surface. The objects sit at three levels: above, on and below. These represent the different ways to engage with the environment.

The Glasses focus on what matters, they serve as a magnifying glass that encourage the user’s eyeline to fall towards the ground, creating a sense of exploration and discovery. What are the traces left behind? How can we actively engage with our impacts?  We hope to open people's eyes and put a spotlight on environmental health.

The Harvesting Bag explores earthbound and ground up, whilst creating an active engagement with crops, soil health and ecosystems through the action of collecting. The bag was inspired by traditional harvesting bags around the world, particularly Colombia and Nigeria.


The Vase is used to highlight wild flowers, showcasing them inside natural gardens and grasses. The Keraflex is light and delicate and illuminates while creating a neutral and simplistic spotlight for wild flowers.

The Stool is twisted into the ground, producing the embodied action of rooting the object to the earth. The shape is inspired by the first leaves that grow on trees, creating the appearance of growth and new life. As the stool is carved into the ground it breaks up the soil, it illustrates that there are consequences to all actions.