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Studio TIP emphasised our disconnection from materials in the post-industrial landscape, highlighting the role of industrial waste in climate change. The construction and demolition industry produces over half of the UK’s total waste every year—62% in 2019. (Green Alliance, Defra 2023).
Industrial Waste reimagined as Art for London Design Festival
Their Material Matters installation at Barge House, Oxo Tower, gave new life to demolition site waste and celebrated the inherent beauty and value in post industrial waste— a stair bannister became a floating sculpture while salvaged concrete were slabs were reimagined as an industrial bench.
Visitors could take the reimagined materials in exchange for documenting their creative vision, sharing how they repurposed them six months later. Every element was designed for disassembly, with digital passports tracking the materials’ next life.
Reimagining Play: A Circular Approach to Public Sculpture
For the London Festival of Architecture and Dulwich Picture Gallery's ‘Reimagining Play’ open call, they partnered with Crab Studio to design a permanent playable sculpture for the gallery’s sculpture garden. The concept embraced reuse, free play, and co-design methodologies, embedding the theme of play by using London as a playground for sourcing materials.
They secured steel and concrete pipes, terrazzo off-cuts, stone, railings, lamp posts, and TFL rubber flooring—reimagining the materials as interactive public art.
Through new material tracking and reuse systems, Studio TIP continues to push the boundaries of sustainable design, proving that waste is not an endpoint, but a beginning.
Studio Tip
From Demolition to Circular Design: Post-industrial Waste Re-imagined
We recently welcomed Studio TIP to our studio. Founded by Charlotte and Katie, the creative duo's practice is dedicated to exploring circular solutions to industrial waste. The design practice collaborates with local communities, institutions, and manufacturers to source and repurpose discarded materials into design artefacts, challenging us to rethink waste and reimagine its potential.