architect takuto ohta introduces ‘rubbish things’, a series of wooden organic objects with the ability to roam freely within the environment. refusing to stay put, rubbish things employ their surroundings (both lifeless and living things) along with natural phenomena, to move with no imposition or restriction; even if pushed away, they will come back.

‘things are designed inorganically by people; they take forms and masses that were meant to stay still in one place’takuto ohta shares. ‘fixed and bound by given physical bodies, they convey an air of helplessness somehow’. meanwhile, rubbish things are equipped with ways to move around, making use of the natural environment and its phenomena, or even the people around them. that doesn’t necessarily mean that they reject people, but rather that they want to coexist with them and have their presence and value recognized by them. […]

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