Sebastian Bergne: More or less
The Belgian-English designer proposes a family of handmade objects: four cast-iron weights that initially all look the same. Actually, each one has a different weight because different quantities of material were used. It is up to the designer to decide whether to use a larger or smaller amount of resources.
Big-Game: Shape
The Shape series includes 17 maple-wood models of miniature automobiles. Historical and utopian types unveil the concerns of their era and the Swiss trio has added five additional models to the series to "unsettle" matters.
Matali Crasset: Life Cellspad
A living platform for the future reorganises essential functions at different heights: 0 cm, ground level, = storage of energy, memory and other systems; 40 cm = sleep and relax; 70 cm = eating.
Delo Lindo: Post
A craft production of industrial objects adds an oneiric dimension to everyday objects which can be repaired if they break down, e.g. a small oven (steel), a kettle (terracotta) and a mixer (wood).
Étienne Mineur, Les éditions volumiques
With the advent of the digital and Internet era books and printed paper are going through radical transformations. Instead of putting a book in the computer, the French designer (carrying forward a project started by Bertrand Duplat) goes against the tide and puts a computer into the book.
Ana Mir and Emili Padros, My treasured trash
A challenge to share property and objects in public space. The two Spanish designers have devised a public service that encourages people to recycle. Objects abandoned by the population are gathered in a kiosk and given to those who need them.
Normal Studio, Le mur augmenté
Jean-Francois Dingjan and Eloi Chafai promote the properties of traditional building systems, such as walls made of pisé or packed earth (which, thanks to its thickness, accumulates heat during the day and releases it at night) with some added technology, such as Graetzel photovoltaic cells. In this way, the new building system can produce heating and electricity.
Satyendra Pakhalé, Tropical hut
A contemporary tropical shelter, imbued with Humanist optimism.
Studio Wieki Somers, Consume or conserve "still lives"
Everyday objects are turned into three "still lifes", created from human ashes with rapid prototyping. It is a conceptual reflection by the Dutch designer, who asks: "Where will the technology that allows us to live forever take us if we destroy the world around us? Will we end up turning ourselves into the products that we ourselves destroy?"
Pierre Leguillon, Bill Bernbach & Beyond
The French artist, who started his career editing a one-page magazine, makes his contribution by showing 1960s and 1970s' advertisements from his own collection, recording an episode in the history of design to show progress. Elena Sommariva
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