Re:aesthetics is a design-led exploration into how creative practices can be reshaped by constraints of material, time, and energy. The Master’s thesis investigates what happens when aesthetics are not pursued through abundance, speed, or industrial efficiency, but instead emerge from conditions of limitation – from working with what is already available, from slowing down, and from aligning design processes with environmental rhythms.

The work takes the form of a book-performance divided into two chapters: Material and Energy. The Material chapter reclaims discarded packaging, leftover test prints, and found paper surfaces, turning waste into the foundation for new work. The Energy chapter engages with renewable sources – primarily solar power – to shape both process and outcome, from sunlight-powered drawings to plant-based printing techniques.

Each experiment is both a visual outcome and a record of its own making. Every page documents a process that is inseparable from its conditions: the cloud that halted a drawing, the pigment that faded under the sun, the offset plate that found new life as a book cover. These traces are not imperfections but essential features – visible imprints of time, place, and environmental interaction.

Re:aesthetics is, above all, a proposition: that design can be regenerative rather than extractive, and that aesthetics can evolve in dialogue with ethics. By working within the limits of what is at hand and what nature provides, the project reframes constraint not as a loss, but as a generative force – one that shapes form, meaning, and value in ways industrial abundance rarely allows.