Announcing our next Circular Design Project:
TOWARDS A TIMBER BANK FOR LAUNCESTON
Waste-focused designer and maker Isaac Williams in partnership with Launceston arborists, Arbscape is a successful recipient of an NRM Northern Resource Recovery and Circular Economy Grants, facilitated through Design Tasmania.
A single felled oak tree – approximately 8–10 cubic metres of Tasmania Oak – is the starting point for something with far greater reach.
Over the next 12 months, Isaac will investigate what happens when urban trees are treated as a design resource rather than a disposal problem. The project maps existing arboricultural waste flows, examining where timber currently gets chipped, burned or landfilled, and builds a practical case for capturing and redirecting it. The immediate outcome will be objects made directly from the recovered oak, presented at the completion of the project at Design Tasmania.
The longer-term ambition that will be researched is the potential for a community-accessible infrastructure that keeps urban timber in the local design economy where it belongs.
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Photo: Melanie Creative
Isaac Williams with his work for Tasmania Makes 25
