Graduation project
The day a poor form became rich
Louise Dousset
A methodology to produce clips using a spring, a zip tie and two plates of scrap aluminium draws attention to the possibility of alternative industrial systems.
Complex industrial systems create most everyday items using inaccessible resources. By learning to reproduce one such object, an aluminium clip, Louise Dousset investigated how it is made. Using minimal resources, she re-developed a standardized production process for the clip. Its dimensions are drawn from ISO paper, a system that enables precise changes in scale. The clips are easy to assemble using a spring, zip tie and two plates of scrap aluminium. They hold paper on their own, but they can also be used together to make more complex, lightweight structures. This radically simplified manufacturing method can be used individually or scaled up to industrial proportions. The clips show that building things at one scale is building them at all scales.