Ripple came as a direct response to the staggering amount of paper waste produced by architecture students. The installation was born through self-accountability by realizing what a discarded paper tube meant. Ripple is generated by individually slicing 600 paper tubes which were gathered on a slim period of 3 months from various print labs in and around our universities. Each of these tubes, throughout their lifespan, has held 50 meters by 1 meter of paper in width and length which totals to 30000 m2 which translates to 3.6 tonnes of wasted paper used to showcase works which have had no permanence. Ripple is a wake-up call to re-think and re-evaluate our pointless consumption of paper in this digital age. The statistics on this problem are alarming, however, no one is sounding any alarm bells. The payoff for us is the fact that our creation has now taken a physical space in the world and it has a permanence which will most likely outlast this exhibition. And it’s not vulnerable either, unlike its core element, the paper tube, a quasi-object having no substantial meaning, however, if combined with a reason to change and a wise and sensible mind, this vague element can now have a purpose and bring a message through, a message of change.