WSTU/e Industrial Design

Student: Pamela Carrion - s081833Coach: Maarten Versteeg Experts: Tenzin, Qellqa, Acosta Stock, Ipanaque

Beyond Accesories

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ARAWI is a new system for Peruvian Jewelry Industry through the creation of a Community oriented towards: Fair Commerce, Fair Trade, equal conditions, co creation, craftsmanship; and economic and social development for minorities. The objective is to create a Community Studio instead of a regular design company; training minority groups from underdeveloped regions of Peru in order to deliver a new design approach to Jewelry which will be commercialize in Peru and in Europe through a partnership based in cooperation, proper manufacturing processes and shared responsibilities.Community: Experience artisans will train minorities to become the human resources under appropriate working conditions; creating a new economic activity for their area and improving their quality of life. Moreover, their native materials will be included in the jewelry pieces; stimu-lating an extra economic activity.A new design approach to jewelry: The design vision is to innovate in the relation between the pieces and users; creating a perceptional change by developing a mutable piece capable of de-construct itself; changing its aesthetics while flowing together with the users. Therefore, jewels could be timeless and become part of users life instead of their outfit. The project is oriented to have an impact in society, current bases of jewelry industry, manage-ment of manufacturing processes, user experience and new design approaches.

Dutch ManufacturingThe following pieces were developed in cooperation with the Dutch goldsmiths Tenzin Rongen and F. A. T. in order to compare the techniques and the work methodology between Peru and The Netherlands.

mimosaAluminium, Steal, Plexiglas

quadranteBrass

bichusteal, screws

Peruvian Manufacturing

The following piece was deve-loped in cooperation with:

Qellqa, Peruvian company which coordinated and super-vized the manufacturing pro-cesses.

Acosta Stock, company expert in giving service for jewelry de-velopment. They developed the axis of the pendan wth Casting. The axis is made with bronce Jorge Ipanaque, artisan ex-pert in stone manufacturing. He manufactured the pieces in Green Serpentine.

mystical aloebronce, green serpentine

mystical olivebronce, olive wood