Personal memories and human experiences to physical objects gain a new significance as modern society becomes more and more fascinated with digital technology.
There are 8 billion people in the world and 7.8 billion own a mobile phone, a technological phenomenon that has only developed over the past 2 decades. 800 million mobile users own an Android phone and another 300 million are iPhone users.
Today, our society actively feels the need to document our surroundings, objects, moments and store them to share on social media sites. There are 1.4 billion active Facebook users, 400 million Instagram users and 200 million Snapchat users; an app which has only been around for 4 years and with a maximum viewing of 10 seconds per photo/video, people have become even more inclined to document pointless stuff.
This emerging trend has caught the eyes of artists and designers who are exploring the meanings of objects, stripped of any emotional or functional significance and are collecting, documenting and exhibiting the waste we produce, to build a tangible picture of the world we live in today.
In 2014 James Putnam, David Usbourne and Lauren Jones presented an exhibition called "Design without Designers: Anonymous Solutions to Fundamental Problems". It used basic human actions such as hit, grip and hold to document functional objects. Meanwhile at the Triennale Design Museum in Milan, "No Name Design" exhibited 1000 mundane objects what are usually overlooked in everyday life. Removing these objects from their natural habitats invited visitors to reconsider the perceptiveness in everyday tools.
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