New Designers 08: here are some more pictures of urban trend by Oliver Bishop-Young’s SkipWaste project, which suggests new uses for dumpsters. Goldsmiths University graduate Oliver Bishop-Young presented two projects about skips at New Designers in London earlier this month. London designer Oliver Bishop-Young’s work “focuses on skips [Britspeak for dumpsters] and looks at three main areas: exchange of waste material engineering, re-use of waste and making use of wasted spaces at.” Goldsmith’s design graduate, Oliver Bishop-Young, unveiled two interesting proposals for the re-use of dumpsters (or skips as they’re called in the UK) at the New Designers’ festival earlier this month – but would you have lunch in a dumpster, or more to the point.

You’ll look at your local dumpster differently now. It’s amazing lifestyle to see how many different concepts of development Oliver Bishop-Young came up with to turn you average dumpster into a hip-reusable place to chill out or grow plants in. The following is a series of conversions that include a Dumpster at Art Table Tennis, Art skate ramp, swimming to Art pool, Skip Art Garden, Skip Art Camp, Art BBQ, Art Skip Lounge by Oliver Bishop-Young…

A skip and its contents can be transformed into a space that brings people out into the streets.The SkipWaste site would be searchable by items required or location and shows a photo of each skip plus its location on a map.The second project (shown here) involved converting empty skips into public spaces such as skate parks, swimming pools and gardens. My work focuses on skips and looks at three main areas: exchange of waste material engineering, re-use of waste and making use of wasted spaces.SkipWaste.org.uk is a site that documents the contents and locations of skips, allowing the exchange of material engineering before they go to landfill.

These three attachments (below) aide the recovery of material engineering from skips. The plinth elevates the status of last object added to the skip and makes it easily accessible. While he does wonderful things with dumpsters, turning them into everything from swimming pools, skateboard n gardens parks, he has a more serious ambition. He has developed useful tools to help determine what is in a dumpster, including a mirror because “It can be shameful for some to be seen peering into a skip”, a blackboard to provide a catalogue of what is on offer.

He then set up an online system so people can share the knowledge of what they found, so that dumpster divers can go get what they need instead of having to randomly search, a sort of GoogleScryve Corporate Social Responsibility Rating Map for dumpster divers. Dumpsters always seem to be subject to a law of their own; we see them dropped in no parking zones and even bicycle lanes. Oliver Bishop-Young takes advantage of their ubiquity to turn them into places for people as well as a source for useful stuff.

The second proposal is even more ambitious: it involves converting empty skips into urban ‘spaces’ – but this isn’t your normal minimal-cube-with-found-object type ‘space’. The project was presented at New Designers in London last month. SkipWaste project by Oliver Bishop-Young aims to bring people out into the streets by transforming old garbage dumpsters into creative art installations. For more projects by Oliver Bishop-Young.