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Remli

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Remli and the materials before crushed and  mixed with soil - Hiroshi Iwasaki
Remli, a portable lighting - Hiroshi Iwasaki
Remli, a portable lighting - Hiroshi Iwasaki
Remli and the materials before crushed and  mixed with soil - Hiroshi Iwasaki

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GRAND JURY VOTES
Shortlisted - Lighting of the Year
7.51
7.07
7.38
8.18
7.54
Magdalena Klosek
Magdalena Klosek Creative Director at IKEA
6.97
6.42
7.05
7.33
6.94
Jukka Halminen
Jukka Halminen Founder and Creative Director at Design Office Koko3
This beautiful minimalist product i...
6.9
7.14
7.06
7.46
7.14
Javier Jimenez Iniesta
Javier Jimenez Iniesta Director at Studio Animal
6.75
6.5
6.5
7.5
6.81
Andrea Sensoli
Andrea Sensoli Founder and Principal Architect at Superfuturedesign*
the primary focus on sustainability...
9
8
9
10
9
Ye Zhang
Ye Zhang Founder and Chief Architect at LZA
Using waste materials to craft a te...
7.95
7.28
7.28
8.62
7.78
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Dimension
W 11.2cm D 11.2cm H 16.3cm
Completion
2024
Material
Main body / exterior: Concrete, Pumice, Glass, Ceramics etc. Main body / Interior: ABS, Aluminum, Acrylic Resin, Silicone rubber Charger Stand: Zinc alloy, ABS, Silicone rubber
Ambientec
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Remli is a portable lighting fixture that seeks to reconstruct the overly complicated and inappropriate relationship between humans and materials, reimagining waste materials from Tokyo as new vernacular materials. In industrial waste recycling plants in the suburbs of Tokyo, fine debris and rubble, which remain after the sorting and recovery of reusable materials, are collected before being sent to landfills.

These collected fragments are further crushed, mixed with soil, and applied to the surface of the lighting fixture using plastering techniques. Through this process, Remli explores the new value of waste materials that are difficult to recycle and often send to landfills. This product is commercialized through a collaborative development between the research project "Urban Origin" by we+ and Ambientec.

"Urban Origin" is a we+'s research project that considers Tokyo as the origin of used materials. This project returns to the starting point of the relationship between humans and materials - "using vernacular materials and treating them simply with our own hands" - and explores new values for waste.