Minimono furniture
Cad to cam production
M3N1
M2N1 and M2N2
Optimized production
There is a minimono for everybody
Furniture for families
Outdoor and indoor
Smart packaging
The designers Dirk and Julieta
-
Name of the submitted project or idea (in English or both English and your language)
The MiNiMONO Project
-
URL of a video introducing the work（under 5 minutes）
https://youtu.be/8F5_jKz2Ucs
-
Detailed explanation of the submitted project or idea (in English or both English and your language)
We are a multicultural couple and design studio based in Berlin trying to create a better future for our two children. Our aim is to turn discarded plastic into life-lasting objects adaptable to multiple uses, environments and generations.
In the MINIMONO Project we create durable and multifunctional flat pack furniture for the entire family following the guiding principle of circularity for a regenerative future. We believe that everyday objects have the power to get people engaged with the circular economy.
Our business model is based on five principles: circular design, sustainable material, conscious production, optimized distribution and practical use; which we apply in a systemic approach throughout the whole decision making and creative process achieving clear benefits in terms of circularity and sustainability as well as education and quality of life.
In order to ensure its longevity of use, we design furniture with both functionality and aesthetics in mind. Kids love it, but their parents crave it too.
In the belief that durability is key to sustainability, our products are made from recycled HDPE plastic sourced from industrial waste, a material that is non-toxic, resistant, easy to clean and suitable for different environments. We are plastic appreciators and believe that plastic should be treated as anything but rubbish. HDPE is one of the easiest plastics to recycle and can be reused at least 8 times without losing any quality.
The pieces are CNC milled optimizing the sheets to the maximum, to implement our circular design concepts the off-cuts go back into recycling to create new sheets or other MINIMONO products, minimizing both production waste, logistics, carbon imprint and transport costs.
MINIMONO furniture is flat pack to reduce the impact of distribution. Packaging is 100% recycled and designed to create as little waste as possible. -
Keywords
Circular Design, Furniture for families, Recycled plastic
-
If you have a website for your submitted project or idea, please provide the URL
https://www.theminimonoproject.com/
-
Special Prize Question 1: How does your project or idea make use of local resources, such as materials and knowledge, to tackle its challenge?
We are a family business, so the origin of the whole project is as local as our own home. However we are not experts in the recycling of plastic so we collaborated with other young companies in the field, some local like "Merijaan" and some a bit far away like "Beter future factory" in Rotterdam.
We try to create a positive impact by: cooperating with like minded businesses on a local level, producing our pieces in a community workshop or using exclusively recycled plastic sheets from Germany. -
Special Prize Question 2: How does your project or idea sustain its activities through the involvement of the local community?
All of the MINIMONO products are 100% Made in Germany, to reduce the impact of logistics.
Our production takes place in a community workshop in Berlin and the finishes are done by hand at our space. We work with another Berlin Startup called "Merijaan" to repurpose our production rests: all offcuts and rests get shredded and recycled again to create other products. -
Special Prize Question 3: How does your project or idea eliminate waste or pollution while regenerating natural resources?
Plastic waste is a global problem, and every design that avoids the use of new virgin plastic and recycles existing plastic into new long lasting products is helping to create a solution even on the smallest scale. We would love to contribute to normalizing the use of recycled plastic by creating a new value and inspire other businesses to help extend the demand of systems and better solutions for re-purposing raw materials in general.
