Monthly Archives: February 2013

Open Up!

Team: Furqan Habib, Lucas De Sordi, Marta Gilart (ESDI), Moushira Elamrawy. Close to the body. An interesting title, that made us all clueless in the beginning about what it stands for, and how could it yield to a physical “product”. Our biggest surprise was by the end of the week, when we managed to merge [...]

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dicht bij het lichaam | week 1

The first week of this studio focussed on the experiential in the design process. In a way, you could call this a bottom up approach: our designs grew out of a personal experience each one of us had in Valldaura. This is the opposite of the top down way of designing, where an abstract, theoretical [...]

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close to the body studio first week. Embracing bow It is about motion and experience of sensations. And controlling them with the body. Tightly weaved knit on the shoulders frames and gives sense of assistance. On the contrary fragile net on arms allows to sense surroundings with skin and fingertips. The bow responds to the [...]

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