Unknowns Project is a computational morphology design studio, built on process rather than style. It does not design objects in the traditional sense. It defines systems, and lets form emerge from them.
Every piece begins the same way. A natural phenomenon is observed and translated into a set of algorithmic rules, then run as a system. The algorithm proposes a range of possible forms, and the designer selects and refines. What results is discovered, caught mid formation, somewhere between calculation and chance.
Every piece begins the same way. A natural phenomenon is observed and translated into a set of algorithmic rules, then run as a system. The algorithm proposes a range of possible forms, and the designer selects and refines. What results is discovered, caught mid formation, somewhere between calculation and chance.
The studio's first series, MORPHOGENETIC, applies this method to natural forces frozen mid transformation: cooling, fracturing, crystallizing, decaying. Each form is rendered as a wearable specimen in aluminium, silver, and resin, unrepeatable, a record of one specific run of one specific system.
Unknowns Project sits outside fashion jewelry and fine jewelry alike, closer to design art objects, made for a global, design literate audience who read form the way others read a signature.
Unknowns Project sits outside fashion jewelry and fine jewelry alike, closer to design art objects, made for a global, design literate audience who read form the way others read a signature.