Diamond Makers Lab

'Diamond Makers' is a hybrid between a lab and a tailor-made retail experience, creating custom diamonds composed of unexpected items.

This project is now archived and was part of DDW20

Store Front

Hannah Brandes

This project explores radical new future scenarios for fashion where, meaning, luxury and narratives take new form. Diamond Makers explores this area by exploiting the possibilities of already existing science, to fabricate lab-grown diamonds using a wide selection of surprising sources.

Lab-grown diamonds grow under high temperature and pressure. They are formed from carbon which can be isolated from most types of organic ash. But maybe the diamond is, in fact, inconsequential or at least less significant than the meaning emerging from t

Diamond Sources: Range

Selection Process

Hannah Brandes

Prototype: Diamond from my mum's cake

Interior design: Lab

Participants of this exhibition

Hannah Brandes

Legacy programme item 3968

Hosted by

Aniela Fidler Wieruszewska
aniela.fw@yahoo.com
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About Aniela Fidler Wieruszewska

Hello! I engage with speculative, critical design and design fiction. Still, as much as I see myself as a ‘futurist’, I’m also a ‘presentis’ putting a conscious effort to stay with the trouble and appreciate the world as it appears to me now. I investigate the tension between value and emotion and how environments, people, feelings, materials and products come together through storytelling, in search of polyvocal ideas and uniting narratives. Feel welcome to get in touch at aniela.fw@yahoo.com.