| Abstract [eng] |
The research of the current art project encompasses the entire ecological production chain from the perception of an ecological plant’s physical and chemical composition to the solution of producing interior eco-objects. What is more, the possibilities of manufacturing structural materials from fibrous plants in Lithuania, the structural peculiarities of interior eco-objects, the possibilities to form and produce them locally, and the types of ecological interior objects in the global market are presented. The present art project of ecological design is created and applied to the furniture sector, which until recently was considered one of the most anti-ecological industries. By taking the said ecological problems of this sector into account, the creation of not only ecological interior objects but an ecological material itself was strived for. During the course of the present art project, an ecological, harmless, self-degradable material, which provokes innovative design forms, has been created from such renewable fibrous plants as flax/linseed (lot. Linum usitatissimum L.), stinging (fibrous) nettle (lot. Urtica dioica L.) and hemp (lot. Cannabis sativa), and patented. The said plants grow naturally in Lithuania. In the project, the following phenomena of the manufacturing and realization of ecological products, which have become the crucial starting points in the creation of furniture designs from natural fibres, are analysed: proper usage of structural materials and fittings for furniture production, increase of energy efficiency, optimization of transport services, promotion of local materials and local production, and assurance that the product will be utilized safely or reused. This is a new niche of ecological design, a missing link in the chain of growing and processing fibrous materials and the synergy of various industries, agriculture and even medicine. |
