Common Structures explores how discarded wood can be reimagined as a shared resource rather than waste. Through collecting, indexing, and building collaboratively with found offcuts, the project develops a series of support structures for exhibitions and publications, shaped through conversations and making with others. The resulting furniture, including the Graduation Bookshop, demonstrates how the existing qualities and traces of leftover materials can guide new structures, transforming discarded wood into functional supports through collaboration and reuse.
The accompanying publication, under the same title, documents the development of the project. It follows the process of collecting, indexing, workshops, collaborative building sessions, and the realisation of the Graduation Bookshop, showing that the structures are not simply furniture pieces but the outcome of an ongoing investigation into material value, support, and collective making.