By challenging the perception and value of discarded materials, I have taken what I have discovered in landfill, in skips and on factory floors and worked them into new objects of desire. Had it not been for my intervention, each one of these materials would have had a long-term detrimental impact on the environment. Re-engineering desire is a innovation and materials exploration project that embraces and celebrates waste through a newly engineered jewellery collection. The raw material library ranged from eggshell to paper, to foam, leather and polystyrene; these transformed materials provoked a sense of curiosity as to the way they were made. With an understanding that my efforts alone would not tackle the problems faced with waste, I approached this in a way that as wearable objects, they became the bridges for new conversations as well as inspiring waste re-appropriation.