Co//Operate

01 June – 02 June 2024
Melbourne Design Week

Blomley Cashman Design Office presents; Co//Operate - an interactive exhibition exploring the role of objects as conduits for connection.

Co//Operate encourages visitors to contemplate how our spaces and things can influence our relationships in post-lockdown Melbourne.

How can our environment be the catalyst that helps shared experience overcome the walls of caution that we learned to erect?

We imagine furniture that serves as a tool to heal community.

We present a world that is impossible to navigate alone, but rewards collaboration.

Back-to-Back Rocking Chair

Upholstered Steel Chair
W500mm H800mm L1000mm
Price on Inquiry

Try sitting by yourself – you’ll get tipped right out.
Get someone to balance you out and you can rock easily.

Long Cabinet

Baltic Birch Plywood
W240mm H1250mm L1730mm
Price on Inquiry

What’s inside the cabinet? Pull the handle to open.

Piston Stools

3x Painted Steel drums w/ polyethylene pneumatic tubing
Dia354mm H370-450mm
Price on Inquiry

These three pistons are linked together. When you sit on one, your two neighbours are pushed upwards. It’s a balancing act.

Fresh! at Craft Victoria is open now featuring beautiful work from recent graduates of craft disciplines. Make sure to visit. BCDO is showing a new configuration of Universal Connector furniture in addition to a steel Dining Stand and a set of swing
Introducing the Connector Chair. Using hard rubbish and our open-source Universal Connectors, the Connector Chair champions Availability. View the chair at @alt.material on Johnston St, Fitzroy from 1-8 December Download and print the connectors
Introducing the BCDO Universal Connector This solution can use any material – found, bought, borrowed, broken – to create any furniture without needing tools or damaging the material. The Universal Connector uses off-the-shelf hose-clamp
Introducing the BCDO Universal Connector Our intention is to fortify the culture of reusing and recycling hard rubbish objects, while reclaiming the power of convenience monopolised by fast furniture and offering an adaptability that mass-production
Uncasing the Universal Connectors. #sandcasting #concretefloor @flic_ini @yonn_salami