Implicit  Consent
to Waste


27 JAN - 06 . FEB . 2025 


Designed by Min Kyuwon
Directed by Min Kyuwon
3D Modeling by Min Kyuwon


This project critiques society’s prioritisation of convenience over environmental sustainability, using vending machines as a focal point. While designed for efficiency, these machines generate excessive waste, revealing the environmental consequences of our consumption habits.

By implementing a representational visualisation of vending machines waste, disposables are repurposed into an abstracted sculpture of a distorted human head and discard mountains, communicating that the environment is not a distant or separate entity; it is directly shaped by human actions, choices, and attitudes. Through this sculptural representation, the project challenges society to reconsider efficiency, questioning whether

convenience must come at the cost of sustainability, further emphasising the need for a more reflective and sustainable approach to consumption and waste management.




















SCULPTURE



Implicit Consent to Waste, Plastic Waste, 38 x 25 x 25 cm, 2025







The reason we chose the title “Implicit Consent to Waste” is that our work encompasses
the overarching theme of resource waste while also expressing how people, in certain aspects, implicitly consent to waste.
Although society outwardly condemns waste as something negative, the reality is that everyone, to some extent, understands and accepts it.
We found this contradiction intriguing. That is why we depicted a distorted human face and chose this title accordingly.


PUBLICATION SPREAD



Implicit Consent to Waste, Indesign, 2025







The reason we chose the title “Implicit Consent to Waste” is that our work encompasses
the overarching theme of resource waste while also expressing how people, in certain aspects, implicitly consent to waste.
Although society outwardly condemns waste as something negative, the reality is that everyone, to some extent, understands and accepts it.
We found this contradiction intriguing. That is why we depicted a distorted human face and chose this title accordingly.