Designers:

Canberra Design Lab

An interdisciplinary team of design-based researchers from the Faculty of Arts & Design at the University of Canberra. 

Project: MPavilion 22 'Re-pete' Chair

MPavilion is Australia’s leading architectural commission created by the Naomi Milgrom Foundation. Each summer, a pavilion is designed and erected in Melbourne which host hundreds of free cultural events. Canberra Design Lab designed seating for MPavilion 2022 that both activated and complimented the space. They drew inspiration from its light, billowing and cellular forms and made a light-footed, low-waste and highly sustainable chair, produced from robotically extruded recycled polyethylene terephthalate (rPET) plastic. Dubbed ‘Re-pete’, the chair demonstrates a circular-design approach by using materiality that is entirely salvageable, recyclable and re-manufacturable.

Category: Use

Designers and Project Team:
Ian (Max) Maxwell, Dr. Ben Ennis Butler and Sam Tomkins.