Ignorance is Bliss

Ignorance is Bliss is a continuous design project founded by Agne Kucerenkaite. The research-based project utilises industrial waste and secondary materials and reuses them into interior and exterior products of higher value. Ignorance is Bliss is giving a new identity to waste and to the built environment, with empathy for planetary health. The Ignorance is Bliss foundations date back to 2016. At that time industrial metal waste from diverse sources was analysed and reclaimed as a pigment for ceramics, glass, and textiles, with a limited edition homeware collection as an outcome. All along, Ignorance is Bliss complexity grew into in-depth theoretical and material research of diverse waste leading to small and large-scale design applications. Ignorance is Bliss is an umbrella term for ongoing experimentation and disruptive cross-disciplinary thinking, which gradually develops into techniques and products.