(2022)
CLEANSING DEVICE STUDY
Prompt: "Device for Cleansing" / "Reinvent the Broom"
This project is a design exploration into adhesiveness as a means of cleansing the floor. The broom sweeps. The bristles on a traditional broom serve to nudge matter directionally. But the primary function remains to get cosmic particles off a calculated part of the floor. The broom evolved to harness electricity and became the vacuum cleaner. Instead of sweeping, it began swallowing the cosmic dust particles.
What else could the broom evolve into? Sweeping, swallowing, wet wiping have been mastered by the broom family already. What about stickiness as a cleaning trait? If a broom were to champion adhesiveness, what would it want to look like and how would it want to operate?
Using found objects and the sticky side of duct tape, here is a series of Rolling Brooms that Wax the Floor.
0.5” x 1” x 8” - 8” x 2” x 5”
House Hold Found Objects, 1.5” Duct Tape
Fig 001: Pencils
Fig 002: Markers
Fig 003: Rolling Pin
Fig 004: Air Fresheners
Fig 005: Black Jar and Soda Cans
Fig 006: Black Jar, Soda Can and Air Fresheners
Fig 007: Black Jar and Spray Paint
Fig 008: Pantry Essentials pt.1
Fig 009: Pantry Essentials pt.2
Fig 010: Football (Soccerball)
Fig 011: Big Black Jar and Soda Cans pt.1
Fig 012: Big Black Jar and Soda Cans pt.2
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PROTOTYPING
House Hold Found Objects, 1.5” Duct Tape, Mindset: Cleaning my floor with the ‘stuff’ in my house
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REFERENCES
Adhesiveness as an cleaning process seems counter intuitive, but it is all around us.
