The 2022 Taiwan Design Expo series exhibition "Afterlife" took Kaohsiung as the starting point for sustainable design imagination. This exhibition was curated by Dishan Studio and invited domestic and international design companies and creators to take part, including Oui Design, Double Plus Good, ChungHan Lu Lab, HANDS, and Joonas Riisalu.

In this exhibition, the Pier-2 Artist-in-Residence (PAIR) Program also participated in content planning and invited French designer Christopher Kelsall and Ecuadorian designer Jorge Durán to join the event.

During their residency in Kaohsiung, various designers engaged in proposal discussions, sparking mutual inspiration. They also interpreted contemporary issues through two circular material series: Co-crepair and RE:0.

"Afterlife" here refers to the second life of objects; objects and materials should not end up being discarded but should continue their lifecycle and be reintegrated into our daily lives to create higher value. The participating resident designers focused not only on design issues but also on conveying the concepts of circularity and sustainability through innovation and aesthetics, so as to impressively remind individuals to practice circularity and sustainability.

Christopher Kelsall 

Stone Lion

"Stone Lion" was the name Christopher Kelsall gave to the project he worked on for the "Afterlife" exhibition. He noticed the prevalence of temples and shrines in southern Taiwan when conducting field work, so he took temple elements as his starting point and integrated ceramic with C-slurry to create 3D printed Shisa. C-slurry is C-Cube's cement-free circular slurry that looks like stone, so Kelsall thought it would be a proper choice for Shisa. He was also pleasantly surprised at the texture of the printed pieces as the stone quality of the printing material was reinforced.