Granland
Granland is: circular furniture production, a new material, an exploration of form in a new production method, and the use of design as a means of communicating an ongoing environmental problem.
As a symptom of global warming, a half-a-centimeter-sized beetle, the Spruce Bark Beetle, has ravaged European forests in recent years. In Sweden alone, 27 million cubic meters of spruce forest have died since 2018, when the attacks began due to a severe drought. This has so far cost Swedish forest owners approximately 12 billion SEK in lost timber value. The future looks bleak; Sweden is getting increasingly warmer and the Spruce Bark Beetles are multiplying at an alarming rate. At present, there are no effective measures to protect our forests from the damage caused by this beetle.
I am developing a wood composite that contains bark beetle damaged spruce wood for 3D printing. With the help of this material, I have designed and produced a collection of furniture, inspired by the patterns that the bark beetles leaves under the surface of the spruce bark. Partly to show alternative uses for this damaged timber, and also to use design as a means of raising awareness, communicating the Spruce Bark Beetle problem.
The collection is designed with a proprietary design methodology for LSAM-production. The furniture are all made in one solid piece, with 0% waste. All furniture- and material production is done in Sweden. All pieces of Granland-furniture are bio-degradable and 100% circular, meaning you can easily melt a shelf down and produce a new one with 100% of the original material.
The form language comes from an ambition to find mutual ground between two such wildly different things as the patterns dug by the Spruce Bark Beetle and large scale additive manufacturing (LSAM), with the goal of creating something truly unseen, if such a thing is possible. The ambition of Granland is to overthrow outdated conceptions about what a piece of furniture is and can be, what really is sustainable production – and – doing so with physical form that hasn’t been possible until now.
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bringing together a natural consequence,
polymers, furniture & high technology
“partly to show alternative uses
for this damaged timber, as well as
using design as a means of
communication,
communicating the spruce bark beetle problem.”
Further Explorations
In the “Further Explorations” series a variety of new Granland objects have been created, including new shelves, ceiling pendants and benches – further exploring the shapes possible when utilizing large scale additive manufacturing – while continuing to use the bio-inspired design methodologies from the original Granland project of taking design ques from the tunnel-digging bark beetles themselves.
