Come Up To My Room
Images by Agata Piskunowicz, courtesy of Gladstone Hotel.

As part of the Design Week Toronto, The Fugitive Glue Collective presented the story of an every day object – a ubiquitous 20-pound barbecue cylinder, and how it can be re-purposed for public benefit. The project spotlighted the term “up-hoarding”, which describes the methodology of Fugitive Glue.

This is what TORONTO LIFE ONLINE had to say about it: COME UP TO MY ROOM

“Gas tanks aren’t sexy, but the way Fugitive Glue has arranged and displayed these rusting canisters as though they’re objects of desire almost makes us wish we could have a couple to fashion our own DIY coffee or side tables.”

torontoist.com
“Even mundane objects have a story—a design, a production process, an afterlife. Uphoarding explores the lifecycle of the very ordinary propane tank—and the environmental implications of the equally ordinary backyard barbeque in the process.”
Corbin Smith/Torontoist 29 January, 2012

40 Oak Avenue, Regent Park, Toronto.
In concert with the Toronto Design Week 2012 and sponsorship of Public Displays of Affection, on January 27th. 2012, Fugitive Glue unveiled its Light Fixture installation at the Regent Park Revitalization Project.

Regent Park was the first public housing project in Canada, developed in the late 1940’s to replace the Victorian slums that existed in the area with humane and safe housing.

The Fugitive Glue Light Fixture OH-85 [SITE-1] nicknamed “Dogbone” has been created to be used within the Regent Park community centre’s conference room, and is designed to resemble the shape of those first public housing buildings that are still in use today.

The piece is made from 70% discarded reclaimed materials, and is coated in thin-set mortar to resemble cast concrete. The light is equipped with the latest LED technology to fully illuminate meetings and conferences at the Centre, up to 80,000 hours of continuous use.

The light fixture is part of 100 pieces of sustainable, one-of-a-kind furniture, lighting, and installations that is featured at the community centre’s site on 40 Oak Street in Toronto’s East End.

Photo by Fugitive Glue.