Project 4: LIGHT - LITE - LANTERN / Materiality / Immeteriality & Design

Our final BDS 101 assignment is to construct a paper lamp/light/lantern using only different types of paper and only physical connections to secure different papers together (so, no glue or tape!). The first step was to figure out how to manipulate a type of paper into achieving the type of light we want our paper lamp to give off. On 25 different pieces of paper, we tried many different techniques to manipulate the paper in different ways like, twisting, crumpling, creasing, cutting, tearing, folding, piercing, slitting, impressing, embossing, weaving, slicing, bending, shredding, and many more. We were encouraged to experiment with many types of paper like, bristol, tracing paper, computer paper, etc. Most of the paper I experimented with was regular sketching paper.

After creating the 25 different papers, we were supposed to pick some of our favorite paper manipulation techniques and start constructing some preliminary lamp models. Here are some of my preliminary sketches: