Whilst visiting this year’s ‘Postgraduate Work in Progress’ show earlier this week, at Central Saint Martins’ new Granary Building in London, we were particularly drawn to Songyi Lee’s Collectionism display.

Songyi, an MA Textile Futures student, explains her experimental project as:

How can Collectionism inform a new approach to material sourcing and design?

“Collectionism is the tendency to acquire and retain objects, even when they are not of immediate usage. Within the context of our throwaway society, my project hopes to celebrate ‘collectionism’ behavior, aiming to facilitate a more meaningful relationship between objects and people, while finding new design solutions for ‘defunct’ technological components.”

She had very carefully deconstructed old mobile phones and cassette tapes, clustering the common components together to create new textile samples and/or tools to mould textures from, with interesting results. As it was a work in progress show, then we’re looking forward to seeing what Songyi produces next… to be revealed at the CSM degree show in June no doubt.

More information about the Work in Progress show is available here

Contact Songyi at [email protected]