Dalisi | Poverty Technology Made with Children

On a street corner in a poor community, designers and children work together to create things with the roughest materials: wire bent into human and animal shapes, tinplate hammered into chairs, wooden strips and ropes tied into swinging objects. The finished products are crooked, oddly proportioned, and roughly welded, but each piece clearly shows who made it. The designers deliberately forgo their technical advantages, making the learning process more important than the quality of the finished product. Materials are recycled wire, tinplate, and wood, with surfaces rusted or painted with leftover paint. The background is an old street in Naples with mottled walls. Photographed under soft light, the handmade traces of the objects are clear. Avoid: finished products being refined and neat, production by professional craftsmen, materials being brand new and uniform, the production process not being evident.

Translated from Chinese by AI.

在一個貧困社區的街角,設計師與孩子一起用最粗糙的材料動手做:鐵絲彎折成人形與動物,馬口鐵皮敲成椅子,木條與繩索綁成可以搖晃的東西。成品歪斜、比例奇怪、焊點粗糙,但每一件都看得出是誰做的。設計師刻意放棄自己的技術優勢,讓過程中的學習比成品的品質更重要。材料為回收的鐵絲、鐵皮與木料,表面鏽蝕或塗上剩餘的油漆。背景為那不勒斯的老街與斑駁的牆。柔和的光線下拍攝,物件的手工痕跡清楚。避免:成品精緻工整、由專業工班製作、材料嶄新統一、看不出製作的過程。