Love Thy Monsters_

Location: Tbilisi, Georgia

The MAAK and Space Saloon, as part of their collaborative LINA fellowship, led a group of local creatives and artisans through a weeklong design & make process using foraged materials from Dighomi Meadows.

Guided by the ‘material intuition’ of what was found, a hands-on process of prototyping and play was used developed a bespoke range of furniture informed by hyper-contextual material gestures.

In association with the Tbilisi Architecture Biennial, ‘Love Thy Monsters’ is a kickstarter to a larger renovation project that will transform part of a derelict power station into an active community space for the local internet radio station, ‘Mutant Radio’.

The concluding exhibition of Love Thy Monsters, launched the soft opening of Mutant Radio’s new ‘listening bar’ and cafe space. Both in-person and via live radio broadcasting, the project brought awareness to the Dighomi Meadows tragedy as well as to the opportunity of what we waste.

While ‘Love Thy Monsters’ addresses the harm of societal waste, it also points to the opportunities possible in more circular thinking in our global design and construction industries.

Local collaborators ↓

Tekla Mamphoria, Pavle Sakhanberidze, Mariam Akhalaia, Dato Gachechiladze, Elene Latchkepiani, Lika Tsintsadze, Lado Landashvili, Giorgi Kartvelishvili, Gvantsa Tskhadadze, Josephine Bols, Josephine Storer, Christina Amundsen, Nina Avdalyan Ivane Gventsadze, Nutsa Labadze, Ryogyry

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