“Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we’ve been ignorant of their value.” Buckminster Fuller
Studio Dust is a design studio based in Rotterdam. The studio has as a main focus to up-cycle industrial waste materials into products by using craftsmanship. It has a fascination for the industrial waste: dust. Dust is the consequence of making. Dust seems like worthless material, however the industry produces lots of it. Now all this material is burned as waste
and is polluting as fine dust our air. Studio Dust wants to contribute to clean air by upcycling waste materials; by ironically also using the industrial waste dust as material. Clean air benefits all.
Dust is light and airy and has a poetry to it. Dust is a state of the material. Dust symbolizes the fragility of the available materials. But it also symbolizes the power of circular thinking concerning materials (circular economy). Everything will turn into dust, and is created from dust; from dust to dust. This worthless material can be up-cycled by the use of craftsmanship. The value of crafts is that it can shape material rough and independently, and in contrast to the industry does not need uniform material. Studio Dust wants to
preserve the knowledge of craftsmanship.