WATER CHANDELIER

Tallinn Architectural Biennial Installation

The Museum of Estonian Architecture

Coordinate with Freddo Daneshvaran, Kate Heath, Amber Su

Summer2022

Director: Caroline O’Dannell

By 2030, almost half the world’s population will be living in areas of high water stress. Already, around 700 million people in 43 countries suffer from water scarcity. And while in some parts of the world, the entire daily ration of water is equivalent to a single flush of perfectly potable water in North American and Europan toilets. In 2019, the global production of plastics reached 368 million metric tons/year, around only 9% of which is recycled. Friendship Products engages with the issue of plastic waste by reconsidering the function of a bottle after its life as a vessel. After use, each grooved bottle can slot together with another to become bricks to create a sneltor. The Friendship WC (water chandelier uses the Friendship Bottles to consider together the wastefulness of our throw-away culture, and in particular the connected materials of plastic and water. Using Friendship Bottles as both bricks and vessels, Friendship WC will release one person’s daily flushed-away potable water in each release.