Waveback – alicia knight

WAVEBACK SOAP DISH

Client: Vrak Museum
2022

WAVE BACK SOAP DISH

Client: Vrak Museum
2022

Wave back is a glass soap dish for Vrak – Museum of Wrecks, recently open maritime archaeological museum in Stockholm. This pieces Aims to create a circular system by up-cycling the waste from the museum’s bar into objects that tell a story for the gift shop.

Assignment

Create an article for the gift shop that matches Vrak’s identity and values.

Vrak Museum

It is at the bottom of the Baltic Sea that Vrak’s collections are found. More than 100,000 wrecks and remains are waiting to tell their story. It is one of the world’s most powerful cultural heritages. At the same time, the Baltic Sea is one of the most polluted seas on earth. Environmental toxins, littering, eutrophication and overfishing have created an ocean in crisis. But the Baltic Sea can be saved. Wrecks – The Museum of Wrecks wants to do its best to contribute.

Sustainability

Every choice makes a difference. Vrak strives to be a sustainable and, in the long term, climate-positive museum in its operations as well as its offerings and assortment. The museum wants to inspire positive change without assigning blame, and tries to always have a life cycle perspective.

Vrak Museum Shop

Vraks aims to offer sustainable, unique gifts, inspired by the Baltic sea and the shipwrecks beneath its’ surface.

Vrak Bar

The wave form supports and elevates a soap bar to keep it dry and maximise its usability. Simultaneously it means to depict the water flows of the open sea, the green color to the bottom of the baltic, as well as the identity of the Vrak museum. Using glass slumping technique this piece is made of recycled glass from Vrak Museum’s Bar bottles. It aims to create value out of the museum’s own waste and inspire circular economy and create awareness to conscious consumption and behaviours. This object is the first of a collection of house hold objects that will follow with this same technique and expression.

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