Competitive advantage is a fundamental component of Bantul’s creative craft sector growth plan. It is one of the forming and supporting aspects for the advancement of the creative industrial environment.
Every exhibition, workshop, seminar, and competition is an efficient marketing network instrument that contributes to the establishment of a creative industrial ecosystem. JIFFINA (Jogja International Furniture & Craft Fair Indonesia) is an annual international-scale craft and furniture industry expo held in Jogja, Indonesia.
As a response to international market trends that put forth recycling concepts, JIFFINA held the title “Nature is Back for Eco Lifestyle” last year 2022.
Certified wood, readily dismantled and recycled, sturdy and quickly repaired, created from recycled metal and plastic insertions, made from recovered wood from previous goods, and employing bamboo material for furniture accessories are characteristics of furniture items that can suit these criteria.
Bantul already has the resources to meet this need because there are countless artists that create works out of discarded materials. Craft things made from waste or rubbish are referred to as recycle/upcycle works.
Recycle Upcycle Definition
The terms “recycle” and “upcycle” are still foreign to most people. The terms we hear the most are 3R (reuse, reduce, and recycle). Reusing garbage is reusing garbage that can still perform the same or different purposes. Reduce implies decreasing anything that generates waste. Recycle refers to the process of converting garbage into usable new commodities or products.
In the recycle idea, waste reprocessing procedures are prevalent, but this has not been the case with the reuse of waste products or used materials such as furniture, electronic components, transportation components, glass bottles, plastics, iron, and other materials.
Upcycling is described as recycling an object in a new way while preserving the original material.
Unlike recycling, which eliminates old product trash to be reused as a new product, the originality of an upcycled product or object is entirely dependent on the creator’s ingenuity.
Recycle Upcycle Application in the Creative Industry
When natural raw materials begin to thin out and become scarce, the utilization of waste and used items as raw materials provides a solution. Recycle and upcycle notions were used by forge makers to produce new concepts, forms, and functions.
This notion is easy to execute in the wood furniture sector. Previously, the furniture solely employed material from logs; now, additional pieces that are normally thrown are also utilised. Unused roots might be transformed into a guest table and coffee table.
The waste of wood saws is intrinsically tied to the ingenuity of craftspeople in order to be reused into one furniture necessity. To avoid monotony, the wood waste is blended with additional materials such as resin, creating a one-of-a-kind product..
Eri Sudarmono
Metal, like wood, has a high potential for reuse/recycling. Gilangharjo, Padukuhan Kauman artist Eri Sudarmono, created robot sculptures out of old motorbikes.
He succeeded in recycling transportation vehicle industry trash into handicraft goods that might reach the worldwide market as an alumnus of Kriya Art ISI Yogyakarta and an old motor lover.
Andri Suryaman
The designer Andri Suryaman, like Sudarmono, concentrates on competence. He gets the raw materials for his furniture from components of pedicabs that are no longer in use. Because of the change in modes of transportation that converts wood pedicabs into motor rickshaws, various pieces of the pedicab are no longer reusable.
Unused pedicab pieces are given new life as ready-made furniture in the hands of the Suryaman. Suryaman’s pedicab furniture has been shipped to Europe and the United States.
Ari Wibowo
Similar to Eri Sudarmono and Andri Suryaman, Ari Wibowo a.k.a. Mas Popo is recycling airplane debris as raw material for his furniture upcycle. The airplanes that were deemed unfit for flight were subsequently broken into different components for reuse.
His cold hands have revitalized the components, transforming them into creative and modern furniture items.
These three heroes have redefined what it means to be free and creative. Freedom to communicate thoughts in novel, unconventional, and original ways. Freedom entails a duty to nature, which must always be focused on preservation.