FAZ com as tuas mãos um banco rápido

Design & Production

The revolution in manufacture is happening, design is at service of user-makers: DO IT with your hands (FAZ com as tuas mãos)! Change your mindset: everyday use products don't have to be made by industry. FAZ are easy to build designs and classes to demystify wood furniture making and empower people to do their own furniture. Each piece is designed to be easy to build, with basic tools and easy-to-find materials. Your handwork provides more gratification than mass-produced goods consumerism.
How simple, fast and distributed can be making a stool? On this presentation I'll explain the key design principles to get people from 4 to 99 to make a stool in 45 minutes.

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Mariana Costa e Silva

Born in 1980 in the Azores. Has a degree in Equipment Design from FBAUL. Was distinguished in the competitions: Young Designer ICEP 2000, 2001 and 2002, Young Creators 2002, Renault Clio Limited Series, Design Wise 2.0, V Formica Creativa Contest, Massimo Dutti Design Award, National Prize Industrias Criativas Unicer / Serralves, Lisbon Maker Fair 2019 and European Bauhaus Prizes. Was a designer at Farame, monitor at the FBAUL Design Workshop's, designer in the ID department at Castelhano e Ferreira and manages her own brands Confeitaria da mala, CUT furniture and Cuco Toys. Provide training in FAZ com as tuas mãos initiative.

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What inspired you to make this project?
FAZ com as tuas mãos (DO IT with your hands) is a participatory process to produce furniture pieces. I have designed easy to make furnishes, with available materials and basic tools and teach people how to do them. Maybe furniture doesn't have to be made by industry, woodworking doesn’t have to be joinery, nor about wood composites with “perfect” finishes. Maybe if we just go a step back and take a modest and simpler approach, we can make something new: democratize access to furniture made by users.
FAZ challenge is to produce locally, with whatever is available nearby, prefer renewable, biodegradable, low carbon footprint and/or from circular materials, use basic and generalized use tools, empower people to do it themselves and share designs.

What are some of the challenges you have encountered and how did you address them?
We live in a world of convenience: we have a diversity of choice available at the exact time we need it almost anywhere. When I propose, as an alternative, each one of us to build his own piece of furniture in a class, it is difficult to reach a sufficient group of people to organize the workshop.
I foresee a mixed path between online and in person. Combining the information preparation that online requires with today's face-to-face workshops has been very challenging for a one-person business.