Design can be understood as adding value – it is employed to add value to materials and objects to generate a commercial profit and functional, emotional benefit in the process.
Based on the rules of a popular German children’s game, the students take this notion to the extreme and create their design piece or design inspiration from and apple and an egg.
The rules of the game:
At the beginning of the project the students split in groups of two to three people and each group will be given an apple and an egg. This is their capital for this project. Now it is up to each team to make the most of their capital by finding people who will trade with them.
The following days we create design proposals and projects from the inspiration and the objects traded on day one.
How could anyone resist trading with Magali and Juliette?
...but what to make of it all?
Projects emerge from the trade -by Clara, Nina & Yuan
development of the ideas - by Nina & Pierre
…and on to the final presentation tomorrow, with our ‘external examiner’ David Dubois…
February 27th, 2009
Today a great article by Alice Rawsthorn about my work was published in the International Herald Tribune. You can permanently read it here:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/27/arts/27iht-design2.1.20486090.html?_r=1&scp=3&sq=julia%20lohmann&st=cse
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February 7th, 2009
A survey of contemporary German design, curated by Max Borka at MARTa Herford in Germany, 14. February – 19. April 2009
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December 9th, 2008
Together with Pieke Bergmans, Studio Libertiny, Raw Edges and Liliana Ovalle I was invited to spend a long weekend in Turin to discuss notions of nature and artifice. We gave presentations about our work and facilitated a design workshop for University students from Turin. The residency was organised by Barbara Brondi and Marco Raino of BRH+ Studio.
The results and documentation of the residency will be published in Interni magazine soon.
A big thank you to the team of the Residence du Parc and to Barbara and Marco!
Luci d’Artista Projects in the city of Torino
Daniel Buren’s “Tappeto volante� (1999) and Studio Libertiny
Two of the students presenting their work
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November 27th, 2008
The Conformitory is designed to make safe elements of nature. It acknowledges our desire to connect with flora, fauna and the environment. However, a thorough risk assessment has shown that any contact needs to be controlled. Visit the Conformitory where we process nature to conform to health and safety standards.
Julia Lohmann & Gero Grundmann
Best known for her elegant lamps made from sheep’s stomachs, designer Julia Lohmann will be resident in the Embankment Galleries’ Studio with Gero Grundmann, for ‘The Conformitory: Nature Contained’, as part of ‘Wouldn’t it be nice… Wishful thinking in art and design’.
Working busily from inside a forensic tent, Lohmann and Grundmann will be manufacturing sanitised, ‘health and safety approved’ versions of the natural world – laminated leaves, perfected branches, nut-free nuts and more…
The Conformitory at ‘Wouldn’t it be nice… Wishful thinking in art and design’, Somerset House, Strand London WC2R 1LA, 27 November – 7 December 2008
For press enquiries please contact: Tom.Coupe@SomersetHouse.org.uk
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