DOMAINE DE BOISBUCHET - SUMMER WORKSHOPS 2014 This summer the idyllic contry estate, Domaine de Boisbuchet in southwest France, is once again the destination for a renowned seris of arshitecture and design workshops, Over Eighteen years, internationally established artists, designers and architects have taught courses on current themes. For four months, participants from around the world arrive every week for the unique experience of a workshop at Boisbuchet - always a memorable time as, far removed from the demands and pressures of daily life, they enjoy living and working with fellow colleagues and experts from a wide range of disciplines. A glance at our tutors names – Groënlandbasel, Cristian Zuzunaga, Philippe Malouin, Nacho Carbonell, Paul Haigh, Antoine + Manuel, Cheick Diallo, Max Lamb + Fred Herbst, Noé Duchaufour-Lawrance, Studio Rygalik, Jerszy Seymour + Parking Club, Silo Studio, Studio Swine, Formafantasma, Sebastian Bergne, Scholten & Baijings, Realities : United, mischer’traxler, Katja Gruijters, Studio Glithero, Jonah Bokaer, Massimo Banzi, Tomoko Azumi, Sabine Seymour, United Visual Artists, Sigga Heimis, Ayse Birsel, Elise Fouin, Alexander Brodsky, Anton Alvarez, Peter Marigold, Hae Cho Chung, Hamed Ouattara, Reichert + Mann, Mauricio Freyre - makes the ultimate choice of a course quite challenging!

The daily schedule of exploration, experimentation and practical activity with tools, materials and technology is complemented by talks on design theory and presentations by course leaders in the evenings, Each day ends in a convivial atmosphere with shared meals around long gining tables while the courses conclude with the presentation of models and proposals, sometimes leading to construction or production in industry. The 150-hectares estate with its lake, river and woodland, features an Architectural Park with a quided tour for visitors to discover the wide range of traditional, experimental and international buildings and structures (from an authentic Japanese Guest House, donated by the Prefecture of Shimane, Japan, to several bamboo pavilions) and the site is located in the triangle between Poitiers, Limoges and Angoulême. In previous years, workshop projects have produced pavilions by internationally prominent architects such as Simón Vélez, Jörg Schlaich and Shigeru Ban, which provide an inspiring backdrop and remain in place as a fascinating contrast to the historic buildings on site. The most recent installation at Boisbuchet is “Le Manège”, the largest in a series of bamboo pavilions designed by German artist and architect, Markus Heinsdorff and is a gift of the Goethe institute and the People’s Bepublic of China. This striking building will become a venue for meetings, perfomances and various events. Alexander von Vegesack, founding director of the Vitra Design Museum and originator of Boisbuchet, first had the idea for the workshops twenty-two years ago and has developed Boisbuchet as one of the most renowned international sites of xwperimentation in design and architecture. The 2014 Program is a Measure of his connections with those at the leading edge of design and industry as well as education internationally. the non-profit organization CIRECA co-ordinates all cultural activities including education, exhibitions, events and publications and since 2011, Boisbuchet has been designated by the French governments as a “pole d’excellence rurale”, indicating its notable role as a non-urban center of excellence for culture and education. The summer Workshop Program and a new Advanced Design Course vividly demonstrate the full potential of the creative industries. in recognition of this, prominent institutions have lent their support and cooperation to Boisbuchet over the years such as Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Art, Limoges (ENSA) Charente Developpement, Conseil General de la Charente, Centre Geroges Pompidou Paris, Corning Museum of Glass (CMoG) USA, Xue Xue Institute Taiwan, Artconsulting Korea as well as the Vitra Design Museum. Students are sent by universities from around the world such as ; Parsons the New School for Design New York, the School of Visual Design New York, the Pratt Institute New York, Pasadena Art Center College of Design US, Instituto Europeo di Design Spain, Fabrica Italy, Keio University Tokyo and the UNAM and UAM universities in Mexico City. Companies and producers like Hermès, IKEA, Vitra, 3M, Kvadrat, Bosch, Jablonex, Kaupo, Fiskars, Ansorg, Papier Direkt, Belux, Modular, Power Film Solar, Pocko, Legrand, Bernardaud, Corticeria Amorim and many others also value the international summer academy and the close collaboration with participants. In response to the unique character of this forward-looking project, they have served as regular partners and provided both materials and workshop leaders.

 

GROËNLANDBASEL/ 15 – 21 June 2014 Title : Architecture on Stage Presentation

For twenty years, internationally renowned architects have conceived innovative building prototypes for Boisbuchet and new projects currently come into being. These ideas - realised, under construction or still in a state of vision - shall be presented in Boisbuchet’s 2014 summer exhibition and we'll design this show in our workshop. The scenography of our exhibition will be developed in cooperation with Boisbuchet’s director and includes architectural interventions, interior design, exhibition furniture, graphic-design and lighting. The workshop is a real-time case-study introducing to the whole process of exhibition making: From fresh concepts to the realisation of efficient solutions and a grand opening at the end! Located in Basel (CH) the office of Dorothea Weishaupt (1968) and Matthias Schengg (1966) was founded 2003 in Berlin and currently employs seven people ; scenographers, interior architects, architects as well as graphic designer, Groenlandbasel realizes interdisciplinary exhibition and book projects mainly in the german speaking region. Several projects of Groenlandbasel have been awarded. Lastest : poster “Das weite Land”, Theater Basel (CH) – awarded with “Most beautiful books of Switzerland 2012” ; reconstruction of the Alpine Museum of Bern (CH) – Museum nominated for the “European Museum Award 2013” Homepage : www.groenlandbasel.net  

CHRISTIAN ZUZUNAGA + TEIXIDORS / 22 – 28 June 2014 Title : Nomads Procedures

We are still working on the didactic details of this workshop. Further information will be posted soon. Stay tuned, please! Cristian Zuzunaga was born in 1978in Barcelona. The child of a Catalan mother and a Peruvian father, his multicultural background instilled in him a strong sense of curiosity, a desire to explore the world and look at ways in which to define it and one’s place within it. From the age of 17, he lived and travelled around the world, eventually setting down in London where he has lived for the last 13 years. Zuzunaga studied Typo/Graphis Design at the London College of Communication, followed by a degree in Communication Art & Design at the Royal College of Art. Originally a student of bioloby, he was fascinated by the microscope and the way in which it enabled one to magnify an object to break it down into its smallest parts. Though the biological studies did not last, the practice of magnifying did and to this day, breaking down patterns and images into their infinitesimal components remains at the core of his work. Zuzunaga’s work is broad in scope and includes print, letterpress, photography, sculpture, textile and furniture design. Rather than focusing on one form of expression, he chooses the one most appropriate to each project. He also explores the use of colour as a spatial medium that enforces identity and encourages interaction between individuals and their surroundings/ Zuzunaga is influenced by architecture and the urban environment, Eastern and Western philosophy, alchemy, antropology, sociology, the psychology of Carl Gustav Jung and in particular, the latter’s concept of the individuation of the soul – a process of psychological integration whereby the unconscious is brought into consciousness to be assimilated into the whole personality. Teixidors is a textile cooperative working since 30 years back with hand-woven textiles, singularly using hand operated looms. Hand-weaving is a thousand-year-old art that has been used by people to express their cultural identity. It is also a trade that develops manual skills and sharpens the senses; an activity used by Teixidors to boost the labor and social abilities of people with learning difficulties; a versatile, complex and demanding tool which acts

 

therapeutically. The looms turn these people with special needs into artisans: a singular idea from which unique products emerge. Each finished piece contains the story of a pair of hands. Tradition, modernity and timeless design describe the spirit of Teixidors. Social action, quality production, self sufficiency and protection of the environment are its goals. Teixidors has managed to succeed in a difficult, ever-changing sector, always bearing in mind that its fundamental goal was to integrate people at risk of exclusion through a creative trade; developing an exceptional product that is the result of an original idea. Homepage : www.cristianzuzunaga.com Homepage : www.teixidors.com  

 

PHILIPPE MALOUIN / 22 – 28 June 2014 Title : Functional Forest Functionality

Functional forest is a workshop intended for those who are interested in making a functional intervention to nature. Materials need to be extracted from the forest in a way that does not affect the health of the ecosystem. These materials will then be processed in the workshops at Boisbuchet, or in-situ in the forest, and the outcome will be reintroduced in the forest. The aim of the exercise is to create a fun and/or functional object from materials found in the forest and install the object back in the forest as to create an adult playground. The objects created can be tools, an installation, games, furniture, equipment, etc. Canadian Philippe Malouin holds a bachelor’s degree in Design from the Design Academy Eindhoven. He has also studied at the École Nationale Supérieure de Création Industrielle in Paris and University of Montreal. He lives and works in London. He set up his studio in 2009 after working for English designer Tom Dixon. He is also the director of POST-OFFICE, the architectural and interiors design practice. His diverse portfolio includes tables, rugs, chairs, lights, art objects and installations. Recently Philippe won the W Hotels ‘Designer of the Future’ Award and the Wallpaper ‘Best Use of Material’ Award. Philippe Lives and works in London, where he operates his design studio and teaches platform 18 alongside Sarah van Gameren at the Royal College of Arts. Homepage : www.philippemalouin.com Twitter : @phil_malouin    

 

NACHO CARBONELL/ 22 - 28 June 2014 Title : Opposites Personalisation

I like to see objects as living organisms, imagining them coming alive and being able to surprise people with their behaviour. In this workshop we'll create objects with our hands and give them our personalities. We combine material found in the nature around us and combine this with man-made, artificial elements in order to design communicative objects that arouse one’s sensations and imagination. In short, what we create are objects with a fictional or fantasy element, that allow you to escape everyday life. Nacho Carbonell graduated in 2003 at the Spanish university Cardenal Herrera C.E.U. and the 27 of January 2007 at the Design Academy Eindhoven, with the projects “Dream of sand” and “Pump it up”, and was honoured with Cum Laude. Once graduated he created collections such as Evolution in 2009, which won him nominations to the design of the year by the London Design Museum, and which marked his ongoing collaboration with Galleria Rossana Orlandi. In 2010, a year after being named Designer of the Future by DesignMiami fair organisers, This identity , which defines his actual style of organic forms and rough and colourful finishing textures, is bringing him into an international scene of private collections and museums, such as the Groningen Museum in The Netherlands, and the 2121 Museum in Japan, all attracted by the uniqueness of materials and techniques applied in his works. Nacho currently works with his team in Eindhoven, The Netherlands, were he has established his studio. Homepage : www.nachocarbonell.com Facebook : www.facebook.com/pages/Nacho-Carbonell/243119135785861  

 

PAUL HAIGH/CMoG / 29 June – 05 July 2014 Title : Liquid Fusion, Design explorations in glass Material Approach

Architect and designer Paul HAIGH and the ‘GlassLab’ return to Boisbuchet for a glass design exploration workshop focusing on the ephemeral and sublime qualities of glass as a rich palette for innovation and intervention. Emphasis will be placed on the idea of ‘...glass as a liquid’ in exploring a material that can transform process into poetry. Working with expert glassmakers from the Corning Museum of Glass, participants develop conceptually driven glass concepts at multiple scales from fashion to furniture, from artifact to architecture. Each new design will be fabricated through multiple prototypes utilizing the processes offered, including pipe blowing, fusing, hand pressing and cast glass forming. The participants will examine glass making as an art form that offers a multitude of methods appropriate for today's design tasks. The ‘Liquid Fusion’ workshop at Boisbuchet has been developed in partnership with the technical expertise, resources and cooperation of the ‘GlassLab’ programme at the Corning Museum of Glass USA. The ‘GlassLab’ is a fully containerized mobile glass making studio and features unique glass making equipment that utilizes minimal power requirements and efficient energy consumption. Early booking is recommended, as the number of participants will be limited. Paul Haigh graduated from Leeds Polytechnic and the Royal College of Art in London. He established his own architecture and design studio, HAIGHArchitects+Designers, in New York in 1981. Acclaimed architecture projects in USA include the VitraUSA factory, Knoll Design Center NY, Carolines Comedy Theatre, Corning Museum of Glass Contemporary Sculpture Galleries and the National Parks Service Flight93 National Memorial. The studio’s furniture, object and lighting designs include projects for Knoll, Vitra, Artemide/RezekUS, Rogaska, Esprit, Bieffe, BaccaratUSA, RosenthalUSA, and the GlassLab at the Corning Museum of Glass New York. Winner of numerous architecture and design awards the studio’s projects have been exhibited at both group and one man exhibitions including Parsons, the New School for Design, SoHo Guggenheim Museum and Cooper Hewitt Museum of Design in New York, Dentsu Gallery in Tokyo, RIBA Gallery and Royal College of Art in London and at the Triennale di Milano. Homepage : www.haigharchitects.com Homepage : www.cmog.org/glasslab

 

ANTOINE + MANUEL / 29 June – 05 July 2014 Title : Monumental Graphics Graphic Design

Antoine and Manuel met in a prep art school in Paris in 1984. Manuel studied Product Design at Paris École nationale supérieure des arts décoratifs while Antoine started working as a fashion designer. They started working together as graphic designers under the name Antoine+Manuel in 1993.Their work quickly embraced the fields of culture and fashion. Their body of work encompasses a wide and diverse range of projects, from designing corporate identities for the likes of Christian Lacroix and Sèvres, to working for theatres and museums such as Collection Lambert (contemporary museum) in Avignon, La Comédie (theatre) in Clermont or CNDC (dance center and school) in Angers. Furniture design, illustration, painting and photography are also part of their multidisciplinary approach. 2009 saw a retrospective exhibition of their work being held in Paris at the Musée des Arts décoratifs as well as at the Heritage Museum in Hong Kong. In 2011, they were chosen –among other international designers– to take part at the large exhibition Graphic Design, Now in Production, presented in Minneapolis, New York, Los Angeles, and recently in Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Texas (July 20th-Sept. 29th 2013). In December 2013 a monumental video projection specially created for the Salon d’honneur of the Grand Palais in Paris is displayed in the Cartier, Style and History exhibition (December 4th 2013 - February 16th 2014). They are members of the Alliance Graphique Internationale since 2012. Homepage : www.antoineetmanuel.com Facebook : www.facebook.com/antoineetmanuel  

 

CHEIK DIALLO/ 29 June – 05 July 2014 Title : Developing Modernity Furniture + Other Objects

In our workshop we’ll take advantage of the creative potential in the arts of recycling and deviation in order to develop a contemporary language for a new series of furniture and domestic objects with its own quality trade mark. We are going to revise existing objects and switch their functions towards new directions: - by practising an archeology of materials that analyses active or dormant properties - by trying out applications and considering new techniques - by sounding out potential extensions for new design perspectives Playfully changing points of view, which stands at the outset of all creative work, is our workshop’s design culture which is supposed to activate fresh energies and the re-vitalisation of existing know-how. Creator, experimentor, designer and trainer Cheik Diallo is pushing the boundaries of design as he and his team manufacture objects from salvaged materials: old tyres, bottle tops, cans, computer batteries etc. in an organised chaos that results in objects of impeccable finish. Born in Bamako, Mali and trained as an architect and designer in Paris, Cheick Diallo’s studio in Bamako is pushing the boundaries of traditional African design into something totally original, edgy and urban. In his latest project, Diallo has organised workshops with groups of local artisans, engaging them to create a collection of seats made in multi-coloured nylon strings twisted over recycled metal structures. Diallo aims, with his designs, to bridge the gap between ancient wisdom and modern sensuality to create, instead, a new understanding of Africa and African design.  

MAX LAMB + Fred Herbst with CMoG / 06 – 12 July 2014 Title : Vitrification Material Approach

Fire is the fundamental force linking ceramics and glass. Fire turns clay into ceramic and silica (sand) into glass. The transformation is know as vitrification, whereby a solid is heated until it becomes liquid, and as it cools down it becomes a vitrified, glass-like solid. For there to be fire there must be fuel, and in Boisbuchet the fuel we use is wood. In fact Boisbuchet ‘is’ wood. Vitrification workshop with CMOG, Fred Herbst and Max Lamb will introduce wood as a third 'fundamental' material in the creation of ceramic and glass objects, extending its value beyond simply use as a fuel. * Wood as a tool - for rolling, pressing, embossing, or sketching into the wet clay. * Wood as a mould - for glass blowing and clay moulding. * Wood as an object - to compliment the glass and clay objects, for example a ceramic cup and a wooden saucer, a ceramic bowl and a wooden spoon, a glass vessel with a wooden lid, a wooden pestle and a ceramic mortar, etc… In September, 2009, a unique type of wood-fired kiln was constructed and fired at the Domaine de Boisbuchet. This kiln uses carbon-neutral waste wood fuel to simultaneously fire ceramics and melt glass for glassblowing. The design references traditional wood-fired techniques and, at the same time, provides a contemporary sustainable approach to high temperature ceramics and glass production. In this course, students work with instructors to utilize local clay materials and inspiration from the Domaine de Boisbuchet to create ceramic objects. Students will also design glass pieces to be created during the kiln firing. The group will experience the intersection of ceramics and glassblowing by helping to load the kiln and by working in shifts to continually stoke the kiln over the course of two days. The firing uses locally sourced wood fuel to reach temperatures in excess of 1,300 degrees C. Participants gain insight into the processes of firing ceramics and glass, while working both with ancient and cutting-edge techniques.  

 

Max Lamb (UK) was born in St Austell, Cornwall in 1980 – an upbringing that gave him a zest for nature, outdoor activities and creativity. Inspiration grows from his desire to explore and re-contextualise both traditional and unconventional materials, exploiting their inherent qualities, and to reconsider the function of all objects. He aims to design products that are fun, inspired and inspiring, and stimulate positive interaction between product and user. Interaction develops product meaning and meaning improves product longevity. He tries to design products that possess a visual simplicity capable of communicating the obvious. Recently his work has as much been about communication of my explorations as it has been about the exploration itself. There is something he has grown to understand about the relationship between objects and people. The quality and he guess longevity of such relationships depend almost entirely upon a person’s engagement with and understanding of the object. This of course depends on the quality and integrity of the object, but this is why he choose the processes and materials he does, and manipulate them in the way he does. The communication process lets people into a secret and hopefully captivates them. Fred Herbst (USA) is currently a Professor of Art, teaching Ceramics, 3-Dimensional Design, and Art History, at Corning Community College in Corning, New York, USA. He earned a Master of Fine Arts degree in Ceramics from the University of North Texas and a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Sculpture from the University of Wisconsin at Stevens Point. Since 2000, Fred’s wood-fired stoneware and porcelain objects have been shown in more than 60 exhibitions across the USA and has had his work published in a number of books and magazines. He has built two wood-fired kilns for the Ceramics program at Corning Community College. The first was an “anagama” type kiln based on ancient Japanese wood-fired kilns. The second kiln was developed in collaboration with Steve Gibbs and Lewis Olson from the Corning Museum of Glass and is used to fire ceramics and melt and blow glass simultaneously. Fred’s personal website is Homepage : www.maxlamb.org Homepage : www.cmog.org Homepage : www.fredherbst.com  

 

Noé Duchaufour-Lawrance / 06 - 12 July 2014 Title : In Praise of Shadows Design for the Senses

‘’But our thoughts do not travel to what we cannot see. The unseen for us does not exist.‘’ Today, western culture urges us to consider obscurity as inexistant and bathes us in light. Inspired by Junichiro Tanizaki's masterpiece „In Praise of Shadows“, Noé Duchaufour-Lawrance proposes articipants of his workshop to gather around one single intervention which approaches the universe and beauty of shadows. Designer and interior architect, Noé Duchaufour-Lawrance has defined his own language using natural shapes which are supple, organic, fluid and structured at the same time. A double passion for the material and for the shape embodied by a double faceted course of studies: first of all following a course in Sculpture on Metal (at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Appliqués et des Métiers d'Art), then design at the Arts Décoratifs in Paris. In response to a creative family environment (his father was a sculptor), Noé Duchaufour-Lawrance very quickly displayed an unusual aesthetic quality, which stands out, beginning with the restaurant Sketch in Soho in 2002. He established his own design studio the following year and has henceforth seized each project as a real opportunity to define an aesthetic quality of his own, to design harmonious objects and areas with an aim to establish an emotional bond with nature. 2007 is a key year when he was discovered by Maison & Objet and voted ‘Designer of the Year’. He collaborates with many editors/producers such as Ceccotti Collezioni, Zanotta, Cinna, Baccarat…and knows how to serve prestigious brands through his design such as Air France (in partnership with Brandimage), Paco Rabanne or Yves Saint Laurent beauté…So many projects with organic, sculptural and sensual design where shapes and colours confront and caress each other, blending together so well and hallmarking his approach to luxury. Homepage : www.noeduchaufourlawrance.com

STUDIO RYGALIK/ 06 - 12 July 2014 Title : COMFORT, FOOD & WOOD Functionality

The outcome of this creative collision is highly unpredictable! With wood as the main material, comfort and food as the main topics, through experimental processes, we will create objects and experiences exploring the relations of these three ingredients. Studio Rygalik was established in 2006 by Tomek Rygalik. For the first two years it functioned between London and Lodz, Tomek’s hometown. Since 2009 the Studio is based in Warsaw. This is when Gosia Rygalik joined the team to become a partner in 2012. Studio Rygalik develops a wide variety of comprehensive projects. The focus is on furniture, products and spaces. The scope is wide – from design, development and implementation of new products to site-specific installations and production of limited editions, as well as objects, dining experiences and workshops that explore the relations of design, food and eating. The team remains on the fringe of distinctly commercial activities, while engaging in cultural practices and building its experimental identity. The work includes projects for ABR, Absolut, Artek, Bozar, Comforty, Dupont/Corian, Heal's, Heineken, Ideal Standard, Iker, Moroso, Noti, Pfleiderer, ProfiM, Siemens and EU Presidency. Over the last few years the work was exhibited in Berlin, Frankfurt, Lodz, London, Milan, Munich, New York, Tokyo, Poznan, Warsaw, Valencia and Vienna. It was also published internationally in magazine articles and press features, including Icon, Interni, Wallpaper, Experimenta, Blueprint, New York Times and Financial Times. Tomek Rygalik was born in Lodz in 1976. He studied architecture at the Technical University of Lodz for two years and then graduated from Industrial Design at the Pratt Institute in New York (1999 BA/Hons). After his studies he worked with several design companies in New York city and the area - consulting for clients including Kodak, Polarioid, Mtv, Perkinelmer, Dentsply, Unilever, Dupont etc. In 2003 he came to the Royal College of Art for post graduate studies (2005 MA RCA). After graduating from the RCA, he joined the RCA stuff as a research associate and established his own design practice in both London and Lodz. From 2008 he teaches at the Academy of Fine Arts (PG13 platform) and from 2009 is based in Warsaw. 2010-2012 he was the art director of Comforty – the leading polish furniture brand.

 

Gosia Rygalik was born in 1982 in Warsaw. She graduated from the Design Department at Warsaw's Academy of Fine Arts (2010 MA). She also studied at the Danmarks Designskole and worked with design studio in Copenhagen. During the studies in Warsaw she was a member of the PG13 platform - responding to experimental design briefs, exhibiting, organizing and taking part in design workshops and competitions as well as industry supported projects. Her MA studies were focused on experiencing food. The relationship between design and food is an important field of her theoretical research as well as design practice. In 2009 she joined Studio Rygalik to become a partner in 2012. Homepage : www.studiorygalik.com  

JERSZY SEYMOUR + PARKING CLUB / 13 - 19 July 2014 Title : The Planet as Festival : Reloaded Functionality

Referring to the series of drawings ´La Pianeta come Festival´ by Ettore Sottsass (1972), the workshop consists of building a temporary world, designing constructions or moments for all kinds of non-work activities as functions of free time that take place in wild imaginations and accompanies the fulfillment of living when there is nothing else to do than that. Be it a Sunset Cinema, a Hot Mess Sauna, a Raft for Amorous Speculation, or an Ecstatic Night Celebration – for pleasure or boredom, for discovery or for the sake of a detour: We'll be living The Planet As A Festival. Here, now and loaded. "Maybe they will design temples for private or public meditation, or lawns for reposing on, or even building conserving memories, provoking smiles, boredom, eroticism or mysticism, etc. " Ettore Sottsass, La Pianeta Come Festival, 1972 Jerszy Seymour is a designer working in the most expanded sense of the field. He sees design as the creation of situations, as the general relationship we have with the built world, the natural world, other people and ourselves, and as much about the inhabitation of the planet as the inhabitation of the mind. The goal is the transformation of reality guided by constant humour and a tainted sense of poetry and the idea of the Non Gesamt Gesamt Kunstwerk. His work spans from playing with the industrial and post-industrial produced object, actions, interventions and installations, covering a range of mediums and materials, objects, film, performance, music and writing.  Born in Berlin in 1968, he grew up in London, where he studied at South Bank Polytechnic (1987 – 1990) and industrial design at the Royal College of Art (1991 – 1993). Seymour is represented by Crone Gallerie in Berlin and Gallery Kreo in Paris.� His work has been exhibited in many museums worldwide, including the Design Museum in London, the Vitra Design Museum in Weil am Rhein, the Palais de Tokyo in Paris, the MAK in Vienna and the Mudam in Luxembourg. His work can be found in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the ‘Fonds National d’ Art Contemporain’ France, the Centre Pompidou, Paris, the MAK in Vienna and the ´Musee d´Art Grand-Duc Jean´ in Luxembourg.� In parallel he has also created works for companies suh as Magis, Vitra and Alessi. He teaches and gives workshops at the Royal College of Art in London, the Domus

 

Academy in Milan, the ECAL in Lausanne, the HfG in Karlsruhe, HBK Saarbrucken, UdK in Berlin, and the Strelka Institute, Moscow. �In 2011 Jerszy Seymour created the program and is director of ‘The Dirty Art Department’, the new Applied Art and Design Masters at the Sandberg Institute/Reitveld Academy in Amsterdam. Parking Club (Elise van Mourik and Laure Jaffuel) Parking Club is the design initiative under which Laure Jaffuel and Elise van Mourik sign their collaborative practice. Working between object and situation, Parking Club produces scenographies, inviting other designers, artists, musicians, photographers or filmmakers to produce works. They are involved as teachers in the master program Studio for Immediate Space of the Sandberg Insitute (Amsterdam). Parking Club's projects has been shown at NASA (Asmsterdam), Club Wanderlust (Paris), Gallery Ofr (Paris), The New Institute (Rotterdam), the Rietveld parking lot (Amsterdam). Elise van Mourik (1988) is a Dutch artist, currently working out of Brussels. Involving different practices such as design, sculpture, curatorial and writing, her works are strongly informed by the possible relationships between several fields and rely on the active questioning of methods and economies. Also maintaining a discursive practice as a design critic, her works can be found in magazines, galleries, bars, street or wherever the opportunity for active objects exists. Laure Jaffuel (1987) is a french designer living and working in Amsterdam and Paris. Interested in the context where her work finds itself, she emphasizes on the design and the construction of situations surrounding her objects. She produces spaces, events, situations, sound pieces, objects, parties, scenographies, where diverse disciples merge to celebrate the productive energy of the group, engaging a dialogue with other artists, designers, musicians. She is also the co-founder of the on-going sound project Take Me On Podcast Series. Homepage : www.jerszyseymour.com Homepage : www.parking-club.com  

 

SILO STUDIO / 13 – 19 July 2014 Title : Another Dimension 2D to 3D Procedures

Textiles are possibly the material that is closest to us: in distance, intimacy and quantity. They wrap us from the moment we are born, stay omnipresent in different shapes, textures and colours throughout our lives and still accompany us into the grave. This workshop explores the unexpected potential of textiles to create moulds for the development of 3D-objects. Textile moulding allows us to create shapes that could not be made in any other way and let the moulded material express its physics and nature. Another particularity is its effect of creating a soft appeal for objects with a sturdy substance. We will work with many different textiles that offer a wide variety of properties and allow to use any mouldable material such as glass, plastics, wood, ceramics, bread and metal. We’ll source all our materials in Boisbuchet – the right the place to get inspired! Silo is the design studio formed by Attua Aparicio and Oscar Wanless, currently based within a plastics factory on the southern bank of the Thames. Focused in the study through experimentation with industrial materials and processes aiming to adapt them to a more craft approach. Silo look at how industry makes things, trying to find a simpler and more expressive way, seeing new potential. Attua Aparicio came to the UK in 2009 to study the Design Products MA at the RCA. In 2004, she graduated in Industrial Design Engineering in Madrid. Then, a year postgraduate course in Product Design at CEU Valencia that made her forget about all the engineering she knew and be committed to design.In 2007 she received the Injuve Design Award which recognises the most promising young spanish designers.Her work has been exhibited in Valencia, Madrid, Barcelona, London, Milan, Havana, Lima, Washington and Saint Ettine amongst others. Oscar Wanless grew up in Bristol with a workshop at home, able to spend hours messing about with many types of materials which formed his love of things and how they are made. After Graduating from 3D design BA in Brighton, Oscar set up making furniture and working as a free lance designer in London.He worked the four previous years before starting in the RCA as an Assistant to a London Based Artist, designing sculptures which had a very technical nature. Homepage : www.silostudio.net

 

STUDIO SWINE/ 13 - 19 July 2014 Title :Mobile City Entrepreneurship

‘Vernacular design’ points to a form of design that is very much of the place and that has developed according to the localized needs, available skills and materials. Vernacular design is often spontaneous and improvisational and reflects the environmental, cultural and historical context. Taking inspirations from the various vernacular designs around the world. We will create a ‘Mobile City’, movable small scale architecture which offers trade in goods or services, using the grounds at Boisbuchet as a starting point and an experimental platform from which a new micro city can emerge. The workshop will culminate in an eclectic range of stalls to form a night market. Studio Swine is co-founded by Azusa Murakami and Alexander Groves. Azusa graduated from the Bartlett School of Architecture and Alexander from the Ruskin School of Fine Art Oxford before both gaining an MA in Design Products at the Royal College of Art. Studio Swine explores design through material innovation and creating new sustainable systems whilst placing an equal importance on aesthetics, believing that desire is the greatest agent of change. Operating in the fields of design, fashion & architecture, Studio Swine has worked with Veuve Clicquot, Heineken, Unilever & Droog. Studio Swine has run workshops at the Design Museum and talked at TED as well as exhibiting at the Barbican, V&A, New York & London Fashion Week, Gwangju Biennale and Shanghai Design Expo. Swine has received international awards including the Gold Prize at BIO23 Biennale of Design Slovenia, Wallpaper* Design Award, nominated for Designs of the Year Award 2013 at the Design Museum London and recently awarded the Global Winner of Public Interest Design. Homepage : www.studioswine.com Facebook : www.facebook.com/pages/Studio-Swine/245972812138826 Twitter : @StudioSwine

FORMAFANTASMA / 20 - 26 July 2014 Title : Prima Materia Procedures

In the past years sustainability has become one of the most central issues in design. But whereas designers initially faced environmental urgencies with a more didactic attitude, sustainability is now becoming an almost unconscious desire within the rediscovery and analyse of nature and our relationship with it. While inherited knowledge and traditional or local techniques are reconsidered, nature and the organisation of its systems become again a great source of inspiration. Even on an aesthetic level, crafted and organic details constitute a new trend and colours, for example, are used more and more in pallets of bird’s plumage or leaves. New systems of visualising natural phenomena are leading to textures and patterns on textiles proposing a new idea of mimesis that is influenced by biology. On a material level the search for naturalness is translated into new polymers obtained from cereals, starch, orange skin and even chicken feathers. If this can lead to speculate a new form of industrial revolution, where the idea of the man-made ambiguously moves towards the nature-made and objects will be lab-grown similar to plants or organs, we could think of a more dystopian scenario in the same time. Nature will be turned into designed products, perfect and efficient in order to serve as food, biofuel and a source of bio materials. Farmers could become a new, powerful lobby - and bio diversity would get lost. Considering this framework, our workshop encourages the participants to develop concepts and small models or prototypes with “the real” as their source. Boisbuchet’s landscape will be literally harvested in our search of colours, materials, textures and inspiration for new production processes. Andrea Trimarchi (1983) and Simone Farresin (1980) are Studio Formafantasma – two Italian designers based in Eindhoven, The Netherlands. The collaboration between the two started during their BA in communication design, illustrating books and magazines. Their interest in product design developed on the IM masters course at Design Academy Eindhoven, where they graduated in July 2009 with a

 

thesis based on traditional Sicilian folk craft. Formafantasma’s work explores such issues as the role of design in folk craft, the relationship between tradition and local culture, critical approaches to sustainability and the significance of objects as cultural conduits. They identify their role as the bridge between craft, industry, object and user and seek to stimulate a more critical and conceptual design dialogue through their work. In march 2011 Studio Formafantasma has been nominated by Alice Rawsthorn, design critic of the International Herald Tribune and New York Times and Paola Antonelli, design curator of the MOMA in NY, as the 1 of the 20 most promising young design studio. Homepage : www.formafantasma.com  

SEBASTIAN BERGNE / 20 – 26 July 2014 Title : Gravity Design for the Senses

Gravitation, or gravity, is the natural phenomenon by which all physical bodies attract each other. This workshop will explore the effects and implications of gravitas an idea or actual physical force. Industrial designer Sebastian Bergne (UK) is renown for making everyday objects special with his essential and human approach to design. Sebastian’s versatility allows him and his team to work in different ways. As an external Industrial design facility to international brands, as a designer and supplier of bespoke objects for restaurants, retailers and individuals or even as producer of his growing collection of personal editions. Having graduated from the Royal College of Art in 1990, he founded his studio in the same year. His achievements have since been widely recognised with international design awards, frequent publication, exhibitions and inclusion in museum collections such as The Museum of Modern Art (New York) and the Design Museum (London). His wealth of experience makes him sought after as a curator, lecturer and commentator on design. Homepage : www.sebastianbergne.com Facebook : http://on.fb.me/1h6hQc8 Twitter : @SebastianBergne Vimeo : www.vimeo.com/sebastianbergne  

SCHOLTEN + BAIJINGS/ 27 July – 02 August 2014 Title : Coluor Procedures

The way in which Scholten & Baijings are working in their studio is special. By making paper models they arrive at new forms – a method which they named “constructive thinking” and has been the basis for their teaching from 2006 until 2011 at Design Academy Eindhoven’s ‘Atelier’ department. In their design process they are combining this method with colour, material, texture and tactility – and people now refer to it as typically ‘Scholten & Baijings.’ Scholten & Baijings’ Boisbuchet workshop is based on “constructive thinking” and colour will be the main focus. The goal is to indicate personal skills and to apply these skills in order to be expressive and creative in one’s work. Every created element in your design process is a piece of independent work and part of a larger whole. By creating your handwork, new ideas develop that can be used for your final designs. During the workshop, Scholten & Baijings will challenge the participants to develop their own grammar of colour by using their “constructive thinking” method. Various aspects such as colour analysis, compositions and applications will be explored. The objective is to inspire and stir your imagination. However, a hands-on mentality is required! Stefan Scholten (1972) and Carole Baijings (1973) established Scholten & Baijings, Studio for Design, in 2000. They combine minimal forms and balanced use of colour with traditional craft techniques and industrial production in a distinctive, almost un-Dutch design style. The finesse, entrancing colours and subtle use of materials in their work have earned considerable admiration in the international design world. Their work, both independent as commissioned, is collected and exhibited worldwide. For clients and manufacturers, Scholten & Baijings design and develop interior products. Among those are tables, chairs, lamps, carpets, colourful plaids, bed linen and tableware. They work for companies and institutions such as The Art Institute of Chicago, Victoria & Albert Museum, Zuiderzee Museum, Audax Textile Museum, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Maharam, Established & Sons, HAY, Pastoe, RoyalVKB, Karimoku New

 

Standard, 1616 / Arita Japan, Thomas Eyck, MINI, Georg Jensen and many more. Their work is published in magazines such as Wallpaper*, Frame, Elle Deco, Financial Times, International Herald Tribune, Icon, The New York Times, Vogue, Surface, Intramuros and in The International Design Year Book. Scholten & Baijings recently received their third Dutch Design Award 2012, were nominated for Designer of the Year by Wallpaper* 2011 and were rewarded with the ELLE Decoration International Design Award (EDIDA) for Young Designer Talent 2011. They were rewarded with their second Wallpaper* Design Award for Best Sideboard Shift 2013 and an EDIDA for their Colour Porcelain collection for 1616 / Arita Japan. A nomitation for the Harrie Tillie (oeuvre) award 2013 was received. Their Colour Porcelain collection for 1616 / Arita Japan is nominated for Design of the Year 2013 by the Design Museum London. Homepage : www.scholtenbaijings.com Tumblr : www.intergalacticcraftsman.tumblr.com  

REALITIES:UNITED / 27 July – 02 August 2014 Title : What you always wanted Procedures

“What you always wanted.”� a workshop about pursuing of your own old ideas� For a creative person ideas are fundamentally important. Many people in creative professions feel that they depend on their ability to create new ideas quickly for - and in any given situation. What once had been a gift or a talent now has become a necessity, something that keeps them going and what pays the bills. There are a number of side effects, many of them have to do with the quality of the ideas created under such conditions and the kind of respect you give to your work and to yourself. ��For one week in Boisbuchet we will allow ourselves an entirely different attitude and perspective. There will be no agenda and no deadline to deliver another new idea. Instead for one week we will look at our own existing (old) ideas or dreams. We will focus on the substance of the few ideas we have kept over a long time and which are or appear beyond reach or reality: The Project you always thought you would like do, if you just had the time and freedom. The Business you would like to start, if you had the power. The big step in your personal development if you had the clear-sightedness and the energy. �The workshop will be about your ideas, which you have carried with you for some time and to a certain degree about yourself. It will be about further developing these ideas and/or about developing your orientation and attitude towards your projects. �The focus will be set individually according to your needs and desires. �We plan to encourage you to engage yourself and your ideas in various ways throughout the workshop between individual work and open group discussion. We will encourage hands on work, writing, drawing, conversation on various levels or pure contemplation - if that is what you need. �Be aware however that the workshop is no project seminar nor a project incubator set-up centered around an isolated student-teacher relationship. The workshop instead will be mostly about opening up and bringing your ideas and dreams (which you usually rather keep to yourself because you find them too immature/valuable/large/small/unrealistic,..) to a group of other people, who will respond by giving comments, advice, encouragement and criticism or who will simple help you to move on. Who should register�This workshop is centered about work in creative or artistic processes and it is probably more aimed at people with some professional work experience. End even as a reflection on your personality might be part of the workshop your decision to register

 

should center about one or several ideas of things or projects you would like to do rather than just an abstract desire of self-improvement. �We expect that you are able to describe what your idea(s) is (are) by the time you arrive. We hope that your understanding about your ideas will grow during our workshop Who is doing the workshop�The workshop is run by Tim Edler architect, designer and inventor, co-founder of the art/architecture studio realities:united . Tim has a 15 year experience in developing new ideas and at the same time in trying to not let go of the small number of good ideas, which have occurred during that period. �For the summer workshop Tim will be accompanied by his wife professional coach Carola Raetz who will give punctual support and by their children (8,11) who have great endurance in asking curious questions.� Tim Edler (*1965 in Cologne) studied computer science and architecture at Technisch Universität Berlin. From 2005 until 2008 he held a visiting professorship at Bremen’s University of the Arts. In 2003 he taught together with his brother and studio partner Jan Edler at the Pasadena Art Center College of Design.� The brothers Jan and Tim Edler co-founders of a trans-disciplinary art group “Kunst und Technik” in Berlin (1997-2000), founded „realities:united“ as a „studio for art and architecture“ in 2000. The brothers’ installations have been honoured with numerous awards, for instance the prestigious “Kunstpreis Berlin 2009” (Art Prize Berlin, an award in the category architecture) by the Akademie der Künste in Berlin (Academy of the Arts Berlin), or the Hans Schaefers Award by the Bund Deutscher Architekten Berlin (German Architects Association Berlin). After receiving the gold prize of the regional Holcim Award for Sustainable Construction in Europe for their project “Flussbad” (River pool) in 2011 – the prize carries a 100.000,- US$ purse – the project was also awarded the 50.000,- US$ bronze Global Holcim Award 2012.� Pieces by the brothers are both included in permanent museum collections like the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York, the Vitra Design Museum in Weil am Rhein, Germany, or Museum Abteiberg in Moenchengladbach, as well as in private collections.��The Edlers have been exhibited at several international exhibitions including the Venice Biannual (2002, 2006, 2008), the Art Museum Stuttgart, the Museum Abteiberg in Moenchengladbach, the MOCA Museum of Contemporary Art in Taipei, as well as the Swiss Architecture Museum in Basel. In 2011 the bother’s first monograph “realities:united featuring” has been published by Ruby Press in Berlin. Homepage : www.realities-united.de  

MISCHER’TRAXLER / 03 – 09 August 2014 Title : Fantastic Reality Entrepreneurship

Te workshop “fantastic reality” will investigate how to trigger imagination in order to come to specifc results. We will bring very short descriptions of fantastic surreal-sounding but existing places. Tese places, that ofen have specifc characteristics or host distinctive natural phenomenons will be the starting point for the workshop and will form the bases for tests, explorations and experiments. By using unfamilar places our creativity will be triggered and will automatically lead to unexpected starting points. Trough practical assignments and research, the participants will analyse, harvest and use the immediate surrounding of Boisbuchet to create potential projects. Te days will be full of discussions, brainstorming, fun and hands on experiences and will lead to imaginative concepts and real tangible outcomes. Katharina Mischer (1982) and Thomas Traxler (1981) from Studio mischer’traxler. Based in Vienna they develop and design products, furniture, installations and more, with a focus on experiments, context and conceptual thinking, Balancing between handcraft and technology, they envision whole systems, processes and new production methods that indicate sustainability and the relevance of nature. Part of their Design process is to examine, experiment, analyse and reject. This critical view often questions and affects the relation between producer, object and owner. “Why and what for” are often the main concerns before a new project comes into being, whilst “What if” ceases in new interpretations and different possibilities. Their Results often make use of unexpected materials and are often characterized by external inputs, for example the condition of the weather or the usage of the existing. After graduating from the IM-master department at the Design Academy Eindhoven and several years of collaboration, Katharina and Thomas founded Studio mischer’trazler in 2009. Their work won the Austrian Experimental Design Award 2009, the DMY Award 2009 and was shortlisted for the Brit insurance Designs of the year 2010 Award. Exhibitions on contemporary Design displayed their projucts in Museums including the Boijmans van Boiningen, the Desing museum London and the Triennale Milano, as well as on international Festivals, Projects by mischer’traxler are in the permanent collections of the Art institute

 

Chicago and the MAK Vienna. They have been invited to lecture and give workshops in various institutes and Universities in Austria and Europe. In 2011 studio mischer’traxler was honoured with the ‘W-hotels designer of the future award’ by Design Miami/Basel and W-hotels. Homepage : www.mischertraxler.com  

KATJA GRUIJTERS/ 3 - 9 August 2014 Title : ∗∗∗ Survival Food Design for the Senses

Nature is the source of our food and the main inspiration for the work of Food Designer Katja Gruijters. Where is our food actually coming from? Are we still aware of what we're eating? And how can we use our ecology as inspiration for innovation? By observing nature, we discover that in a natural cycle, nothing gets lost. Currently there is worldwide interest in sustainable food production, healthy eating patterns and the quality and safety of food. Katja Gruijters regards food as a natural, social and cultural phenomenon. Her workshop explores these questions by doing intuitive research and experiments. Searching for the origin of ingredients and find the essence. Katja's approach is research, analytic thinking in combination with intuitive explorations to come up with design challenges. During the food design course you are going to work with a survival kit and available ingredients from the natural area of the beautiful Boisbuchet estate. We will emphasize inventive preparation and cooking methods. All inspiration and research of the survival food design course will be shaping into a ∗∗∗ `rigid three-course dinner, party or product line. Consider ∗∗∗ star fish from the river, ∗∗∗ star fried ants, freshly picked wild cherries, served with ∗∗∗ star plates and cuttlery. Discover, observe and transform nature! A challenging food design group assignment for cooks, foodies, graphic designers, architects and other interested creative diciplines.  Katja Gruijters is the Netherland’s first food designer. Already during her studies at Design Academy Eindhoven she began to specialise in the design of eatables. 15 years later, Katja has become a true expert in the field, developing major concepts for leading companies in the industry: Albert Heijn, Honig, DSM, Servex, CSM, Heinz, Red Band, Sarah Lee, Mona, Agrico, Arla, and many others. Dutch and international museums such as the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam, NEMO and the Museum of Arts & Design in New York have exhibited her work.

 

Katja has worked with trend forecaster Li Edelkoort and food scientist Louise O. Fresco and gives various workshops - nationally and internationally. She designs exhibitions in the Netherlands and abroad and is regularly invited by the Dutch Embassy. For several years Katja has worked as a columnist for Dutch trade journal Foodmagazine. Katja Gruijters has been a founding member of the food design department at the HAS Den Bosch University of Applied Sciences, recently co-founded a pilot scheme on food design for Design Academy Eindhoven and lectures at ARTEZ in Arnhem. Website : www.katjagruijters.nl Facebook : www.facebook.com/KatjaGruijters Twitter : @katjagruijters  

 

STUDIO GLITHERO / 03 – 09 August 2014 Title : Process as Spectacle Procedures

Glithero focus on the moment of creation, the steps leading up to the moment that a product is finished or just when it starts to exist. This workshop is about timing, choreography and spectacle. It is about shifting the focus away from the end product and to the proces and moment of creation. Students will be set a challenge that encourages them to think less about the final destination and explore beautiful and fantastical ways of making the journey from A to B. Glithero are British designer Tim Simpson and Dutch designer Sarah van Gameren, who met and studied at the Royal College of Art. From their studio in London they create product, furniture, and time-based installations that give birth to unique and wonderful products. The work is presented in a broad spectrum of media, but follows a consistent conceptual path; to capture and present the beauty in the moment things are made. In the past year Glithero has presented solo shows in London, Paris and Rotterdam, as well as exhibitions in Milan, Berlin and Basel. and in 2011 the studio has been shortlisted for the Brit Insurance Award and the Dutch Design Awards. Homepage : www.glithero.com Twitter : @studioglithero  

JONAH BOKAER / 10 - 16 August 2014 Title : Moving Bodies // Built Domains Presentation

A multi-disciplinary exploration of the ways in which built spaces describe, prescribe, and choreograph both trained and pedestrian bodies in space, with a focus on performative space as a tool for exploring the built environment. This experiential workshop will include a physical warmup each day, and in addition to building exercises, will also include structural & dramaturgical analysis for a new performance designed for stage. The workshop participants will work together with Jonah Bokaer and one Associate towards a brief culminating performance on the Friday evening. Participants are requested to bring along a Macintosh laptop, ideally with OSX 7 or higher. Jonah Bokaer is an international choreographer, media artist, and artspace developer. His work, which integrates choreography with digital media, is often the result of his cross-disciplinary collaborations with artists and architects. Bokaer is the author of numerous choreographies, films, motion capture works, interactive installations and mobile applications and his work has been produced in theaters throughout North America, Europe and Asia. Recent performances include two seasons at the Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival (2011-2012), the 2012 Festival d’Avignon in France, Théâtre de la Cité Internationale in Paris, and the BAM Next Wave Festival 2012, for which he was commissioned for the inauguration of BAM Fisher, with artist Anthony McCall. Upcoming works include a commission from the Ludwig Museum of Budapest, BAM Next Wave Festival, and the inauguration of Frank Gehry's newly designed LVMH Foundation in Paris. Creating choreography for museum spaces since 2002, Bokaer’s work has been exhibited at The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, P.S.1 MoMA, The New Museum, the Museum of Arts and Design in New York City, as well as in The Asia Society Texas Center, Le Carré d’Art à Nîmes, IVAM Valencia, Kunsthalle St. Gallen, and MUDAM Luxembourg, among others. In 2008-2009 Bokaer became the first dance artist to be appointed a Young Leader of the French American Foundation, in acknowledgment of his efforts to develop Chez Bushwick, and CPR - Center for Performance Research, two independent arts centers which nurture young artists in New York City and internationally. Bokaer has collaborated with artists

 

including Daniel Arsham (2007-present), Anne Carson, Merce Cunningham, Robert Gober, Anthony McCall, Tino Sehgal, and Robert Wilson (2007-present). As choreographer for Robert Wilson, he has completed many operas including “Faust” (Polish National Opera), “Aïda” (Teatro dell'Opera di Roma), “KOOL” (Japan/USA Guggenheim Works & Process), and “Fronteras” (IVAM Valenica), and “On The Beach” (Baryshnikov Arts Center). Bokaer was recently named one of ten American artists to receive a Doris Duke Charitable Foundation grant award for the development of his third mobile application, in partnership with Georgia Tech. Website : www.jonahbokaer.net Facebook : www.facebook.com/jonahbokaer Twitter : @JonahBokaer Instagram : @Jonah_Bokaer  

 

MASSIMO BANZI / 10 – 16 August 2014 Title : The internet of trees Functionality

There has been a lot of talk about the Internet of Things, but what would happen if we would place internet connected objects in nature? What could we learn by creating objects that can communicate with the world surrounding them and with other devices across the globe? What if a tree could have its own Facebook page or if it would post pictures on Pinterest when something interesting happens in the vicinity? We’ll provide you with an Arduino-kit with wifi-connectivity and set up a small network allowing everyone/thing to talk to each other and with nature. Massimo Banzi is the co-founder of the Arduino project. He is an Interaction Designer, Educator and Open Source Hardware advocate. He has worked as a consultant for clients such as: Prada, Artemide, Persol, Whirlpool, V&A Museum and Adidas. Massimo started the first FabLab in Italy which led to the creation of Officine Arduino, a FabLab/Makerspace based in Torino. He spent 4 years at the Interaction Design Institue Ivrea as Associate Professor. Massimo has taught workshops and has been a guest speaker at institutions allover the world. Before joining IDII he was CTO for the Seat Ventures incubator. He spent many years working as a software architect,both in Milan and London, on projects for clients like Italia Online, Sapient, Labour Party, BT, MCI WorldCom, SmithKlineBeecham, Storagetek, BSkyB and boo.com. Massimo is also the author of “Getting Started with Arduino” published by O’Reilly. He is a regular contributor to the italian edition of Wired Magazine and Che Futuro, an online magazine about innovation. He currently teaches Interaction Design at SUPSI Lugano in the south of Switzerland and is a visiting professor at CIID in Copenhagen. Homepage : www.massimobanzi.com  

 

TOMOKO AZUMI / 10 - 16 August 2014 Title : Paper and Stone Material Approach

Paper and stone have properties that are contradicting; One is light, translucent and manipulable, the other is heavy, opaque and resistant. Using these simple materials, we ask participants to create objects for personal use, or gifts for the surrounding landscape, which celebrate these contradictions. Results might take form as pieces of furniture, accessories, new spaces or wearable architectures. Graduated BA Environmental Design at Kyoto City University of Art in 1989, worked for architectural practice and moved to London 1992. After graduating with an MA in Furniture Design from the Royal College of Art in 1995, she started partnership studio AZUMI in London, showed their works in several exhibitions and began working for international clients, such as Lapalma (Italy), Authentics (Germany), Habitat (UK) and Muji (Japan). In 2005, she set up her own practice, TNA Design Studio, in London. Since then she has continued to work for furniture and lighting manufacturers as well as designing exhibitions and site specific pieces, together with her team who share her philosophy and aesthetics. Latest projects include; furniture for The Supreme Court of the United Kingdom, Hexad tables for Rocket Gallery and Benchmark Furniture (UK), Little Woods lamp for Maxray (Japan), and AT-AT writing bureau for Röthlisberger (Switzerland). She is also involved in group exhibitions with design collective TEN, to raise discussions on environmental issues in the design industry. Her works are in various public collections including the Victoria & Albert Museum (UK), Crafts Council (UK) and Stedelijk Museum (Holland). She is Project Tutor at Design Products, Royal College of Art (London) since 2005 and is on the Judging panel of Good Design Award (JIDPO, Japan) since 2007. Jury team member at imm Köln Design Award and 100% Design London selection board, in 2010. Homepage : www.tnadesignstudio.co.uk

SABINE SEYMOUR / 17 – 23 August 2014 Title : Functional Aesthetics Functionality

Participants explore fashion, science, and technology to create concepts of body conforming wearables to be finalized as highly aesthetic prototypes. Using the Domaine de Boisbuchet as a backdrop these final endeavors are filmed in action focusing on the interactions by the wearer to trigger the functionalities embedded. Participants are assumed to be proficient in physical computing or fashion. In her research Dr. Seymour focuses on ‚the next generation wearables‘ and the intertwining of aesthetics and function. She is described as being an innovator, visionary, trend setting, holistic in her approach, and a lateral thinker. She authored the successful books "Fashionable Technology, The Intersection of Design, Fashion, Science, and Technology" and "Functional Aesthetics" and is an editorial review board member for the International Journal of Mobile Human Computer Interaction and The Journal of Textile Design Research and Practice. Dr. Seymour serves as adviser and jury member for many internationally renowned institutions and conferences. She has received numerous grants and awards and was awarded the Michael Kalil Endowment for Smart Design Fellowship in 2010. Currently Dr. Seymour co-chairs the Rockefeller Foundation Grant funded project Computational Fashion at Eyebeam in New York, curates the MAK Fashion Lab at the Museum of Applied Arts in Vienna, directs the research project Computation Cellulose at Aalto University in Helsinki, and is the Chief Creative Officer of her company Moondial. MOONDIAL is the nexus between silicon and style. We regard our body as a node in a networked (digital) system and the skin as metaphor to conceive computational fashion. We invent, forecast, and consult on technology infused experiences and products for our clients ranging from Siemens, VF Corporation, to General Electric.

 

Sabine Seymour will be assisted by Ricardo O’Nascimento, who is an artist and researcher on the field of new media and interactive art. He investigates body-environment relations focused on interface development for worn devices, interactive installations and hybrid environments. He holds degree from PUC – SP, SENAC – SP and the University of Arts and Industrial Design Linz at the department for Interface Culture. Currently he works in his studio and teaches at Willem de Kooning Academie in Rotterdam. Ricardo O’Nascimento received several awards including CYNETART award 2012 and Rumos Arte Cibernética. His works have been featured museums, galleries and art festivals like Ars Electronica, FILE, LABoral, V2, Instituto Itaú Cultural, Soft Galleri and Transmediale, among others. Homepage : www.moondial.com Twitter: @fashionabletech  

UNITED VISUAL ARTISTS / 17 - 23 August 2014 Title : Controlling Space Senses

For this workshop, Alexandros and Ben will look back on 10 years of UVA and invite a series of discussions stemming from some of the reoccurring themes, mediums and processes in their work. They will talk about the studio’s use of light and sound as formable materials to manipulate space and explore ideas of perception, time, synthesised experiences and the role of technology in our lives. The workshop provides a great excuse for Alexandros and Ben to dig through the studio’s archive and rediscover what’s been piling up over the years. Armed with some technology from UVA's previous works, participants in the workshop will have the chance to get their hands dirty and experiment themselves. Hopefully the sun will be shining and we can find a nice balance of making, talking, and sitting around staring at the sky. United Visual Artists (UVA) is a London based art practice that combines a wide range of disciplines including sculpture, installation, live performance, and architecture. The studio has an open approach to collaboration, uniting diverse skills to continuously evolve new technologies and materials, which in turn suggest new artistic directions. The studio’s lines of enquiry include the tension between real and synthesized experiences – the questioning of our relationship with technology, and the creation of phenomena that transcend the purely physical. In all their work, they aim to distill complexity down to its essence. Based in London, UVA was founded in 2003 by Matthew Clark, Chris Bird and Ash Nehru. United Visual Artists have been commissioned by Artwise Curators, The Creators Project, La Gaite Lyrique, National Maritime Museum, Opera North, Royal Academy of Arts, Victoria & Albert Museum, Manchester International Festival, The Serpentine Gallery and YCAM Japan. Their work has been exhibited at institutions and galleries including the South Bank Centre, the Wellcome Collection and The British Library. Internationally UVA have shown in Barcelona, Beijing, Hong Kong, Melbourne, New York, Paris, São Paulo, St. Petersburg, Taipei and Tokyo. Their designs for live performance have led to commissions for venues such as the Tate

 

Modern Turbine Hall, Serpentine Gallery and Madison Square Garden in New York. In 2007, UVA’s responsive light and sound sculpture Volume won a yellow pencil at the D&AD awards, and featured in the London Design Museum’s ‘Design of the Year’ show in 2008. Speed of Light was nominated for ‘Design of the Year’ in 2010, and High Arctic nominated in 2011. UVA were awarded a distinction for their kinetic installation Chorus at the 2010 edition of Prix Arts Electronica. In 2011, Speed of Light was awarded a Creative Review Annual and listed in the Annual as ‘Best in Book’. Currently working on their new installation Momentum for the Barbican Curve Gallery and a solo show at the Towner Gallery, Eastbourne which opens in April 2014, UVA will also be exhibiting in the Barbican’s major summer exhibition Digital Revolution 2014. Homepage : www.uva.co.uk Facebook : www.facebook.com/unitedvisualartists Twitter : @UVA_Studio  

SIGGA HEIMIS WITH IKEA / 17 – 23 August 2014 Title : Mass Personalisation Personalisation

Born in Reykjavik, Iceland in 1970. She graduated as an industrial designer from Istituto Europeo di Design, in Milan, Italy in 1994 and received Compasso D'Oro for her graduation project. After graduation she started her design company H&H in Iceland in 1995 and did projects for various different companies worldwide; from furniture to interior design to medical appliances. In 2000 she returned to Milan, Italy, to do her master's degree at Domus Academy and continued working for H&H. In 2001, she began working for IKEA Sweden and designed products in all areas, from children's furniture to breadbaskets. After being the design manager for Fritz Hansen, she now opened her own design studio. She also worked on projects with all the major international design schools: Eindhoven Design Academy, Royal College of Art in London, Domus in Milan, University of Art and Design in Helsinki, Parsons in New York, University of Shanghai, Marhi in Moscow and many others. Her works have been displayed in various design museums and and shows like the VIA gallery in Paris and featured in the 2004 Design Yearbook. Homepage : www.siggaheimis.com  

 

Standard, 1616 / Arita Japan, Thomas Eyck, MINI, Georg Jensen and many more. Their work is published in magazines such as Wallpaper*, Frame, Elle Deco, Financial Times, International Herald Tribune, Icon, The New York Times, Vogue, Surface, Intramuros and in The International Design Year Book. Scholten & Baijings recently received their third Dutch Design Award 2012, were nominated for Designer of the Year by Wallpaper* 2011 and were rewarded with the ELLE Decoration International Design Award (EDIDA) for Young Designer Talent 2011. They were rewarded with their second Wallpaper* Design Award for Best Sideboard Shift 2013 and an EDIDA for their Colour Porcelain collection for 1616 / Arita Japan. A nomitation for the Harrie Tillie (oeuvre) award 2013 was received. Their Colour Porcelain collection for 1616 / Arita Japan is nominated for Design of the Year 2013 by the Design Museum London. Homepage : www.scholtenbaijings.com Tumblr : www.intergalacticcraftsman.tumblr.com  

AYSE BIRSEL / 24 - 30 August 2014 Title : Design the Designer's Life You Love Personalisation

I believe our life is our most important project. With this in mind, I started applying my design process “Deconstruction:Reconstruction” to my life. At Boisbuchet I will show how to use design thinking not only for your work but for your own life. My goal is two-fold here: the first is to share my time-tested and proven creative process as a tool you can apply to any problem and project going forward, and the second is to help you becoming the designer of your life. I find this especially relevant to you, since as designers you are visionaries of the future. Imagine, create and lead an original life—alongside all the other original things you're creating. At the end of our session, you will have a concept model for the life you love, one you can start testing right away. Looking forward to seeing you all, as I happily return to Boisbuchet for a second summer! Ayse Birsel has been designing award-winning products for over twenty years. She is the co-founder of Birsel + Seck, an innovative design studio in New York that partners with leading brands and Fortune 500 companies, including Target, Herman Miller, Hewlett Packard, Johnson & Johnson, Toyota and TOTO. She has also consulted GE, Hasbro, The Drucker Institute and Bridgestone Turkey, among others, on design thinking, strategy and innovation projects. Called affectionately by the press the “Queen of Toilets” and “Queen Bee” for her bathroom designs and office systems, she brings new solutions to old problems by thinking differently, using her user-centered, humanistic design approach and her unique process, Deconstruction:Reconstruction™. Ayse is also known for her acclaimed workshops “Design the Life You Love” for individuals and “Design the Work You Love” for corporations, applying her design process to help people design their life and work respectively. Ayse is the recipient of the 2001 Young Designer Award from the Brooklyn Museum of Art, the Athena Award for Excellence in Furniture Design from Rhode Island School of Design, and numerous design awards including the IDEA Gold Award and ID Magazine Award. She is a speaker at international conferences—notably the Aspen Design Conference, IDSA and AIGA Conferences, the Indaba Conference and DMI (Design Management Institute). She is a Fulbright Scholar, has a master’s degree in Industrial Design from Pratt Institute and is a graduate of Middle East Technical University in Ankara, Turkey. Her work can be found in  

 

the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum and Philadelphia Museum of Art. She lives between New York and Istanbul, with her husband and partner Bibi Seck and their 3 kids. Homepage : www.dereconstruction.com Twitter: @AyseBirselSeck Facebook : www.facebook.com/DesigntheLifeYouLove Behance : www.behance.net/birselseck  

 

ELISE FOUIN / 24 - 30 August 2014 Title : Wool of Nature Material Approach

Wool accompanies humanity since millenniums. The material is raw and sophisticated at the same time and associated with traditional skills as well as innovative knowledges - due to its technical properties implemented in textile industries and its great capacities of thermic and acoustic insulation. Wool dresses, wraps and warms us and is as sensual as protective. In a world obsessed by innovation but inclined towards a revival of "natural values", wool has constantly renewed its potential from fashion to housing. The objective of this workshop is to explore the simple and the extreme qualities of wool. But we are going to design our objects by manipulating the material with a common gesture: Creating links! The different types of connection by knitting, weaving, sewing, assembling, sticking or tangling shall origin our building of objects. While each participant develops his or her own language the technique finally determines the object’s rhythm such as strength or stress-relief and density or lightness. Partners for this workshop are Woolmark and Laines Locales Réseau Limousin. Elise Fouin was born in 1979, she lives and works in Paris. Graduated from "Ecole Boulle", this young designer uses all types of materials as a starting point to create her porjects. She has a very unique approach when it comes to design: she thinks about the materials before thinking about the object. She likes playing with the sensitive and tactile aspects of the materials she uses and she does not hesitate to recreate them with a very delicate and personal touch. She transforms, unwinds, adjusts, wraps, polishes, varnishes until the object can be born. Thanks to this unique way of transformation, each object becomes unique and its shape is never the same. Recognized for the delicacy of her work on the material, particularly the paper, she already exhibited here work at the Furiture trade show in Paris, in Shanghai, at Paris Tools Gallery or still at the Museum of Science and Industry. The creator collaborates with numerous luxry brands and the mass-market retailing just as well for the design of space as the design of product and furniture today. Homepage : www.elisefouin.com

 

ALEXANDER BRODSKY / 24 – 30 August 2014 Title : The Nameless Structure Art and Architecture

Alexander Brodsky was educated at the Moscow Architecture Institute where he graduated in 1978. Brodsky's first encounter with the public eye was during the late 1970s. He was a key member of the paper architects (visionary architecture), and furthermore, worked alongside Ilya Utkin in his etchings of distorted cityscapes. Paper architecture was a response to state sanctioned architecture that consisted of standardised and often poorly constructed buildings, which imbued their environments with a communist aesthetic. Such a response allowed paper architects to retreat into their imaginations and defy uniform Soviet architecture through vivid depictions of constructivism, deconstructivism and postmodernism. According to Anna Sokolina, paper architects rose to prominence within the Western world as many of their works won prestigious awards in professional competitions and helped to shape an understanding of Russian modern and postmodern architecture. Scholarship has shown that the whimsical and constructivist etchings of Brodsky and Utkin translate mere illustrations into narratives through the introduction of human characters. These were narratives that voiced man's alienation within the urban world and provided a commentary on the loss of Moscows historical architectural heritage.  

 

ANTON ALVAREZ / 31 August - 6 September 2014 Title : Improvised Cooperation Furniture + Other Objects

Improvised Cooperation is a teamwork-shop about material research and furniture building. Intuitive reactions to simple materials and given circumstances shall lead to some unpredictable results. The team’s quick decisions will provoke new ideas that combine your accumulated knowledge and skills from the past in response to the stimulus of feelings and environment. The effect might be a realisation of unexpected objects as well as the development of new thinking-patterns. Basic materials shall be combined inventively according to their qualification for each construction, which then other group-members continue with different materials. Anton Alvarez is a Swedish-Chilean designer based in London and Stockholm. A recent graduate of the Royal College of Art’s Design Products MA, Alvarez originally studied fine art and cabinetmaking before completing an Interior Architecture and Furniture Design course at Konstfack, the University College of Arts, Craft and Design in Stockholm. Alvarez’s work focuses on the design of systems and the creation of tools and processes for producing products. Alvarez work has been exhibited internationally, including at Mudac, the Design Museum and the Victoria & Albert Museum in London. Homepage : www.antonalvarez.com Facebook : www.facebook.com/StudioAntonAlvarez Tumblr : www.intergalacticcraftsman.tumblr.com  

 

PETER MARIGOLD / 31 August – 6 September 2014 Title : PLASTIC Material Approach

We will be experimenting with using novel materials for creating new designs. The title of the workshop is a word play, a confusion of the noun and the verb – I will be asking people to think about both and working directly with them to realise their designs. Peter Marigole is a designer and maker of objects. Following a path from sculpture at Central Saint Martins info theatrical and event scenography, Peter Marigold gained a broad range of making skills that have continued into his design practice today. After completing the M.A. DesignProducts course at the RCA he established his design practice concentrating on a wide variety of objects including furniture, products and interiors, Working with both galleries and manufacturers his work is exhibitied internationally including at events and locations such as the Milan Furniture fair, Design Maiami, Stavanger 2008 (Norway), and MoMA New York, Design Museum Holon (Israel). In 2009 he was awarded one of the four ‘Designer of the Future’ awards by Design Maiami in December and at 21_21 Design Sight (Mongolian Cashmere). He lives near Hampstead Heath in London with his illustrator partner Orly Orbach, my son Leon and giant African snil, Marvin. Homepage : www.petermarigold.com    

 

HAE CHO CHUNG / 31 August – 06 September 2014 Title : Ottchil : Lacquer of Orient Procedures

I extract the sap from ott-trees that grow in my country and use this as the main material for my work - fascinated by the recondite polish and the unique colours drawn from this material. Ott-tree sap is one of those materials which are unique for Korea’s traditional craft and the practical application of this lacquer traces back to 300 B.C. Our workshop introduces into the method of obtaining the material, demonstrates how to mix colours and how to actually apply it to the base material. You’ll start the course by either searching and coming across something you wish to embellish or shaping it of either natural or man-made matter. I’ll then show you how to apply the Ottchil and bring out its specific luster and mysterious colours that sublimate your object. Chung Haecho was born in 1945 in Korea. He majored in wood craft and industrial art at Hongik University and studied art education at Kemyung University. In 1980 he was appointed as a professor at Paichai University, where he worked as a teaching professor and as dean of the arts college, dean of the graduate school, and director of the library. While working as university professor for 30 years, he established the Ottchil Art Institute and School of Industries as well as the worldwide first Ottchil art department at an undergraduate and graduate level. He has held six solo and various other international exhibitions including Collect 2013 in the United Kingdom, Maison & Objets and Revelations 2013 in France, SOFA CHICAGO 2010, and the 33RD Philadelphia Craft Show in the US. His works are included in the collections of the British Museum, V&A and the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Homepage : www.ottchil.com/index_e.php  

 

HAMED OUATTARA / 07 – 13 September 2014 Title : Soul of furniture Furniture + Other Objects

Design as seen by Hamed Ouattara has two unique aspects: a source of inspiration rooted in traditional African culture and the use of materials within hand‘s reach. These materials derived from the reclamation of utility objects and waste are converted from their primary function to become aesthetic objects. A dialogue is established between the artist and the material in an environment which allows the work to emerge, giving it a life, an identity, a soul. Being convinced for years that the future of design as he practices it, lies in the potential to create new versions of objects which aim for synthesis between the local and the global, as much in their use as in their mode of production, Hamed Ouattara will share this beleif in a practical way, through this workshop. There will be a first module to push the boundaries of the participants' creative potential, by showing how from almost nothing, we can give soul, or a new soul to a piece of wire, an old motorcycle part ... Hamed Ouattara will share his concept of an object's life cycle by allowing the participant to understand his vision of the object's creative process. the various stages of its life cycle, death and recycling as another object or for another, secondary use. In a second approach, Hamed Ouattara will present the scope and economic potential of his creations to be used beyond the purely aesthetic. Through his raw mixed-media creations Hamed Ouatarra aims to bring out design that exposes the realities of modern Africa. ‘My goal is to provide a key point in a continent which suffers from imports and all kinds of imitation furniture, especially of poor quality and which does not reflect our culture.’ He has exhibited widely – from Bilbao, Spain to Miami, USA – and supplies his products to Europe and Africa. Homepage : www.coroflot.com/hamedouattara  

REICHERT MANN / 07 - 13 September 2014 Title : light-ligths Material Approach

The responsible interaction with our nature and limited resources is a key factor for future products. The workshop sets a focus on this situation by using energy-efficient lamps and materials which are either organic or easily recycled in order to develop aesthetically challenging luminaires and structures for sophisticated atmospheres. We want to explore and analyse nature's own perfect structures and Boisbuchet's architecture as sources for our inspiration. A short warm-up shall introduce into the principles of light-technology and will be followed by a collective building of lamps, concentrating on their fundamental technical set-up. The reflection of these basic light fixtures through forms we discovered in Boisbuchet shall lead us to the development of innovative, light lights. At the end of our light-lights-workshop, the fully operable luminaires of each one of the team connect to an illuminating installation for the final dinner. Gerhard Reichert Gerhard Reichert holds diploma in mechanical engineering and integral-design from SADK Stuttgart.He was project manager at MH Design Engineering in Switzerland and Germany and worked for seven years with Michele De Lucchi in Milan before establishing his own studio “reichert-design”. In 2004 he was appointed Professor for Design at University of Applied Science Aachen. Since 2007 he is Professor and Head of Department for Product Design at University of Applied Science Schwäbisch Gmünd. In 2013 he taught as guest professor at San Jose State University in California. Reichert focuses on the integral development of products and product systems that reconcile utilitarian, ecological functionality and integral emotionality. His expertise is design and engineering in complex global contexts and alternate branches of industry and markets such as office furniture, interiors, lamps and industrial as well as medical products. Gerhard Reichert collaborates with international companies such as Artemide, AAT, ALS, Brunner, iGuzzini, Interstuhl, Koleksiyon, Leifheit, Molteni, and Mauser Office and many of his products were awarded. Reichert often acts as advising expert and member of design juries.

 

Marc Mann Marc Mann lives in Hamburg where he is a light and jewellery designer – besides working as an IT-consultant. He is a passionate collector and constantly engaged in contemporary art as well as in antique crafts. His preferences of fusing disparate disciplines, materials and ideas become manifest in his trademark objects called „jeweLIGHTs“. Found objects such as hand blown flacons often become a starting point for his designs and transparent phenomena in particular – be it glas with its manifold, subtle qualities or a deep sea jellyfish – provide a recurrent source of inspiration. The true value of his unique pieces of jewellery is not based on expensive matter but on a highly elegant transformation of historic material into authentic, visionary objects. Marc Mann's objects have been successfully shown in numerous exhibitions and selected by Karim Rashid for the International Design Yearbook 2003/2004. In 2012, Marc received the EVOQUE Style Award "Hamburg – CITY OF LIGHT". Homepage : www.reichert-design.net Homepage : www.light-lights.com Homepage : www.jewelights.com  

 

MAURICIO FEYRE/ 10 - 16 August 2014 Title : Cinema & Design Exploring design through the moving image

Cinema is made by ideas, narratives, objects, machines characters, actions, dialogs, sounds and spaces which are structures in a time line. The focus of this workshop is to design a cinematic experience in space, exploring the representation in cinema and the medium itself. We will exercise the design of film narratives and the creation of characters and actions and at the same time design objects that interact with these narratives through light, sound and the moving image in space. The final exercise will be a combined film installation and performance. “The thing that matters is not what they show me but what they hide from me and, above all, what they do not suspect is in them.” Tobert Bresson Mauricio Freyre, born in 1976, studied fine arts at Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam, architecture, and photography at Centro de la Fotografía in Lima, Peru. Freyre works internationally as photographer and director for artistic videos, commercial clips, and cultural documentation on design, architecture and urbanism. He tutored workshops on audiovisual narration for designers at IED, Madrid, and at Teatro Municipal in Lima, as well as a sound workshop at Stedelijk Musueum in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. His works were shown in numerous exhibitions and film festivals such as 2010 the Alterpolis con Ecosistema Urbano at Espacio Matadero in Madrid, in 2008 at the Nederlands Film Festival in Utrecht and at the 2007 Tent Academy Awards Tour to Rotterdam, The Hague, Amsterdam, Luxemburg and Istanbul. Homepage : www.rienfilms.com