MANIFESTO
JUNKLE'S MANIFESTO
We are JUNKLE.
We use what remains, to imagine what will come.
THE VISION
THE VISION
Alienation and meaning.
Designing is the antidote to alienation.
The creative gesture, even the smallest, is the answer to postmodern disintegration.
Man seeks meaning, not just utility.
Waste as potential.
Waste is no longer a residue, but a new possibility.
End and beginning coexist.
Rejected matter becomes matter of the future, everyday objects or means of salvation.
Improvisation as an existential method.
Designing without designing: using what you have, building makeshift rafts.
Uncertainty, chance: emergency translated into creative tools.
Travel as an ontological condition.
The raft, the shipwreck, movement: humans are always in transit.
We survive, adapt, imagine elsewhere.
Clinging to a “spatial reef,” balanced between meaning and the abyss.
Nature and artifice collide.
Waste becomes an alien species, pieces of the universe transformed into a grotesque garden: our attempt to domesticate the world ends up altering it.
But this mutation is also fertile ground.
Vision alone is not enough. Practice is needed. Method is needed.
ACTION MANIFESTO
ACTION MANIFESTO
We are a brand with a purpose – our mission being to make a real impact on people’s choices and businesses’ social conscience through quiet yet effective bottom-up action.
In a world where the only certainty is constant change, we cannot control circumstances – but we can definitely choose and shape our response to them.
HEART IS HOME.
We are busy raking up unused materials (deadstock and leftover) or used materials close to disposal, upcycling them by inclusive manufacturing processes, delaying their entry into the biosphere.
We do everything in our power to reduce the damage caused by hyper productionist practices oblivious to the issues of waste, redundancy and the post-consumer fate of their products.
MONKEY IS ANGRY.
JUNKLE recover used technical materials, offcuts and production scraps on the way to disposal – yet performing surprisingly well – coupling them with carefully selected new materials to create made-to-last accessories, everyday objects and furnishing elements – all items durable and easily mendable.
MADE TO LAST.
From JUNKLE’s headquarters – the workshop in old town Palermo where it all began – we design, produce, photograph, narrate, publish our stuff on the online shop and partner sites – and we ship anywhere.
We are digital first because this is about the entire planet.
