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Will Yates-Johnson

MA work

MA work

  • Spolia - the reuse of earlier building material to create new monuments

    Spolia - the reuse of earlier building material to create new monuments, 2003
    Plaster, resin, pigment, hammer
    Photographer: commons

  • Early physical diagram of Polyspolia

    Early physical diagram of Polyspolia, Will Yates-Johnson 2014
    Plaster, resin, pigment, hammer
    Photographer: Will Yates-Johnson

  • Biocomposite testing samples

    Biocomposite testing samples, Will Yates-Johnson 2015
    Resin, marble flour, wood flour, pigment
    Photographer: Will Yates-Johnson

  • Polyspolia colour test

    Polyspolia colour test, Will Yates-Johnson 2015
    Polyurethane resin, pigment, hammer
    Photographer: Will Yates-Johnson

  • Further Polyspolia form tests

    Further Polyspolia form tests, Will Yates-Johnson 2015
    Polyurethane resin, polyester resin, plaster, pigment
    Photographer: Will Yates-Johnson

  • Tarmac slice

    Tarmac slice, Will Yates-Johnson (Julinka Ebhardt) 2015
    Tarmac, aggregate
    Photographer: Will Yates-Johnson

  • The obscure line between public and private land

    The obscure line between public and private land, Will Yates-Johnson (Julinka Ebhardt) 2015
    Photographer: Will Yates-Johnson

  • Abrupt zoning in the public realm

    Abrupt zoning in the public realm, Will Yates-Johnson (Julinka Ebhardt) 2015
    Photographer: Julinka Ebhardt

  • 'Beating the bounds', surveying invisible territories

    'Beating the bounds', surveying invisible territories, Will Yates-Johnson (Julinka Ebhardt) 1913
    Photographer: commons

  • Live-response signal: GPS enabled illuminated backpack

    Live-response signal: GPS enabled illuminated backpack, Will Yates-Johnson (Julinka Ebhardt) 2015
    GPS module, Arduino, LED panel, mirrored acrylic
    400x400x50mm | Photographer: Will Yates-Johnson

Polyspolia | Public Bounds

Polyspolia

poly-

(Greek for ‘many) i.e. polymer, polyester, etc.

spolia

(Latin for 'spoils') the re-use of earlier building material to create new monuments


A proposal for a production system of domestic objects in which an item, if it breaks or loses favour with its owner, can be broken up and remade into a new and different piece; the material resources within it are retained and made visible to the user. This project aims to reframe the way people think about our consumer society’s expectations for perpetual, immaculate newness and encourage an innate appreciation of the resources that exist within an object.

Public Bounds

Survey and Signal


This project unpacks and brings to light the opaque phenomenon of privately owned public space in London through research and field work, resulting in a collection of tools, objects and installations which aim to recast the citizen as an active explorer engaging with the invisible political aspects of urban space.

Programme
Design Products
Collaborators
Julinka Ebhardt

Info

Info

  • MA Degree

    School

    School of Design

    Programme

    MA Design Products, 2015

    Specialism

    platform15

  • Will Yates-Johnson is a multidisciplinary designer interested in the study of systems, how material can contain information and tell stories, and harnessing beauty and wonder to make visible the invisible.

  • Degrees

  • BA Architecture, University of Nottingham, 2008

  • Experience

  • Senior designer, Philippe Malouin Studio, London, 2010–13; Production manager, Unto This Last, London, 2010–11

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