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Benjamin Paul


Ben is an artist and designer living and working on muwinina country in Tasmania, who’s work sits at the intersection of design and social practice.

Ben looks to create work not only for people but with people, to imagine, and express ideas and dreams to create sustainable and preferred futures.

His work includes explorations in materiality, localised plastic recycling, community-led problem solving, systems thinking and built public work.



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The idea for Emerging Future Stories arose from the need to communicate the ideas and dreams generated in the Polymer Dreams Lab workshops to a broader community. The communication method had to be engaging and novel in order to create maximum opportunity for these ideas and dreams to be shared and enacted. Weaving the rich narrative of recycled plastic into the mix provided a rich opportunity to constrain the medium of communication. Recording on recycled plastic discs provided a unique opportunity to communicate the participants’ contemplations using a traditional means - the physical nature of the needle etching the surface terrain of a plastic disc was an exciting method of delivering the recycled polymer message, layered with stories of preferred futures.

A noise floor of vacuum cleaner bodies, dead tv’s and old toys. Visions of futures, carried by a tangle of things people don’t want anymore. Voices cut to waste. Finding a language for what is important to us around a framework of things that are not.

See here for a video on the process of turning waste into records.

See here for the stories of future that were cut to the discs.


Emerging Future Stories from Ben Paul on Vimeo.

Recycled Plastic Records from Ben Paul on Vimeo.