Unobjects™

According to philosopher Byung-Chul Han, we as a society have come to value data that describes a physical object more than the object itself, making the digitally implied more important than the physically actual. Han calls these informational objects 'non-things.'
Designer Adarsh Nellore investigates the physical form and presence of non-things by crafting them through his novel sculptural technique, with which he is able to autonomously reconstruct almost any given form from furniture to human anatomies. His 'Unobjects™' collection, manufactured from recycled Nylon PA 12 and binder-jetted Quartz sand, is comprised of home accessories crafted through photogrammetry, generative algorithms, and additive manufacturing. Through this collection, Adarsh Nellore explores a variety of novel additive manufacturing techniques, demonstrating a new age of design in which data becomes material and forms are determined by machine perception rather than human deduction.

Adarsh Nellore is an artist and designer based in New York City researching machine craft, digital futures, and algorithmic design, having studied Biomedical Engineering at Duke University and Innovation Design Engineering at the Royal College of Art and Imperial College London.