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# Project Description OtherHands: Tools of Anti-Tool Xingyu Wang Summary Final work Xingyu Wang is a Chinese designer with a background in product and material design. Her practice uses participatory methods to explore social issues, environmental sustainability, and more-than-human relations, focusing on marginalised communities through interactive and graphic storytelling. Xingyu Wang is a Chinese designer with a background in product and material design. Her practice ... College London College of Communication Course MA Design for Social Innovation and Sustainable Futures Graduation year 2025 Other Hands: Tools of Anti-Tool explores how tools of labour embody both exploitation and social value.The term anti-tool refers to uses of tools that go beyond their conventional functional meanings.It redefines tools not as instruments of labour, but as mediums of agency — through which marginalized workers express resistance, wisdom, and survival — a personal act of refusal or protest. Tools are not merely physical objects we use to complete a task - they are material symbols that reveal how society classifies and values different kinds of work. Focusing on the lived experiences of marginalised workers, the project collected stories from real workers and uses toilet paper as both medium and metaphor - soft, replaceable, and disposable, mirroring how the emotions and voices of these workers are often overlooked or discarded. By collecting an archive of anti-tools, the work honours workers’ agency and subjectivity, documenting acts of resistance through the re-use and re-creation of everyday tools. Visitors are invited to interact with the toilet-paper archive, unfolding layers of stories and reflection, and to reconsider the social systems that make essential labour both indispensable and invisible.This project also carries a zine that gathers the stories of workers — a collection of deeper, often overlooked experiences. Through an accessible and intimate format, the project brings their voices into public view, allowing more people to encounter the emotions, struggles, and strength behind everyday labour. Final work View Gallery View Gallery View Gallery Anti-tool archive Hanging toilet paper printed with workers’ tools and anti-tool archives. View Gallery View Gallery View Gallery Publication envelope A hand-drawn anti-tool illustration is printed on the envelope, which serves as the packaging for the zine. Its playful and inviting look sparks curiosity and encourages viewers to open it and explore the stories inside. Share this project Other Hands: Tools of Anti-Tool explores how tools of labour embody both exploitation and social value.The term anti-tool refers to uses of tools that go beyond their conventional functional meanings.It redefines tools not as instruments of labour, but as mediums of a... A link to this page has been added to your clipboard Browse related work Archives & Collections Being Human Community Health & Wellbeing Materiality Politics Social Justice GraphicDesign Installation Publication
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