During the second edition of Tana Design Week under the theme ARY RAHA: fashioning a school is fashioning a society, we worked on a project that applied the concept of open standardisation to be developed at the agency in response to the strained context of Tana's street furniture. Much of it has fallen into disrepair, but it is also used as shelters for a large number of local shops and services.
The result is a bus shelter that is anchored in its context in terms of use, typology and materials, and that is also innovative. A bus shelter analysed and designed as an open system. Imagining with young people Ndao Hanavao and UFR Bois from ESSA Forêts on this programme. Hopefully, the next stage will be to set it up on a pilot site and roll it out.
Production work will be done using recycled plastic, set up by Ndao Hanavao and modules that we have designed from our digital interface created by in Ultra Ordinaire. See here
This work functions as a sign system in the city. The project supports the idea of a school of social design in Madagascar led by Imke Plinta and Domi Sanji of the Johary Constellation association.