Marta Monge

MA Industrial Design student Marta Monge has been working towards her Degree Show for the past year. She has focused on a topic that seems to be in constant debate: immigration. Marta has developed a series of toolkits for travelling across sea and land. They also include advice on how to avoid detection at border control. Watch out for updates when we talk to Marta again nearer to the start of the show.

Border Crossings attempts to raise awareness and trigger debate on the current phenomenon of illegal migration, with particular focus on Sub-Saharan and Maghrebi migrants and the perilous journeys they face, chasing the elusive European dream. The project wants to play with and paradoxically twist the traditional vision of clandestine immigration provided by media. On one side by exploring the migrant’s point of view, looking at the journey to Europe and its many ordeals through the potentialities of crafty ad-hoc design solutions. On the other side by exaggerating the public hysteria and fear of the different that fuels wide spread anti-immigration feelings, portraying the migrant as a threat lurking outside the gates of Europe.

The result is a series of tainted objects, whose harmless appearance conceals the story of an invisible reality, much closer to us than how we expect. 

graduation project
MA Industrial Design - Central Saint Martins, UAL
London, UK

achievements
Exhibited during Stuff at Central Saint Martins and published on 1Granary
(June 2015)

Awarded with the CSM Dean's Award 2015 for Academic Excellence
(June 2015)

Source : http://investn-border-crossings.tumblr.com

Source : http://cargocollective.com/martamonge
Source : http://www.arts.ac.uk/csm/csm-culture/central-saint-martins-degree-shows-2015/marta-monge/