Simon Dupety

The Unindustrial Functional Object series explores a mysterious tension between the natural and the industrial, the living and the technical. This hybridisation of raw resources and standard components stems from a reflection on the future of everyday objects.
At the heart of the project are oak acorns, harvested in the forest and treated as semi-finished products. These natural elements are combined with aluminium profiles and led−s, while retaining their uniqueness within functional objects. Referring to the world of science fiction, UFO questions our vision of progress: can we imagine a technical production that sacralises the living instead of excluding or crushing it?
These lights, manufactured in series but not industrialisable, subvert the codes of traditional production. They embody an alternative temporality, slow and meticulous, where design becomes a celebration of the nonstandard. In this way, UFO proposes an imaginary world where technology and culture meet, and is part of a wider personal quest for the user-friendliness of objects: wild systems.