Fastening – Research Ecomakery

Join, Connect, Couple, Close, Unite

A fastening is a device or piece of hardwear that closes or secures something. Examples include:

Buckles, Buttons, Clips, Nails, Nuts and Bolts, Pins, Screws, Tacks, Velcro, Zips.

This a big category.

For Cable ties see Linking

Collection: Cardboard attachment techniques

Different methods of attaching mostly corrugated cardboard together with and without glue and tape.

Categories: All. Materials: Card and Corrugated. Techniques: Fastening.

The Attachment Test by Diane Jaquith

“An intervention in response to students’ over-reliance on tape and glue to hold things together in their three-dimensional artwork” Article by Diane Jaquith, Teaching for Artistic Behavior

Categories: All. Techniques: Fastening.

How to make a Robot Transformer with type 5 bottle caps

A video by EcoArte – Jairo e Margarete

Categories: All. Tags: Bottle top robots. Materials: Bottle tops (PP), P#5 PP and Plastic. Projects: Figures and Toys & Games. Techniques: Fastening.

Fynbos series

Gallery of found object sculptures created by Michelle Stitzlein. Inspired by proteas, common house plants and succulents.

Categories: All and Artists & Designers. Materials: Found objects and Objects. Techniques: Cutting, Dismantling and Fastening.

Plastic bottle windmills

Darcy’s son Ewan made a film about how to make a plastic bottle windmill – balancing design. Cool calm competency from a kid.

Categories: All and Children & beginners. Materials: P#1 PET and PET Bottles. Projects: Toys & Games and Windmill. Techniques: Bending & Twisting, Fastening and Threading.

Using cable ties to join sticks

Darcy shows a couple of methods of fixing cable ties together and how to use a cable tension gun.

Categories: All. Techniques: Fastening.

How to make a bed from recycled paint cans

A recycled bed base by Alice Tamami, Fiji

Categories: All. Materials: Paint tins. Projects: Bed base. Techniques: Fastening.

A fence built with innersprings and ingenuity

A really great design for a recycled mattress fence by Upshop Industries – with instructions. Bolted together.

Categories: All. Materials: Mattress springs and Wood. Projects: Fencing. Techniques: Fastening. Processes: Creative reuse and Reclaim.

Carpet samples dry mop

A student project at SCRAP Humboldt to find a way to add value to carpet samples. Features 3D printing.
I was also interested in looking at the criteria used to define the project.

Categories: All and Artists & Designers. Materials: Carpet. Projects: Home and Mop. Techniques: Fastening. Designs: Ecodesign.

Insider Secrets for Successful Found-Object Sculptures

An article by Kelly Phillips who teaches elementary TAB (Teaching for Artistic Behaviour) with plenty of practical tips for creating an environment for student-led creativity. I particularly like the poster of attachment methods.

Categories: All, Collection & Storage, Creative learning and The Creative Process. Techniques: Fastening.