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UNITÉ
with Philippe Malouin
During a week-long workshop led by designer Philippe Malouin, first-year BA Industrial Design students conceived and crafted soliflore vases, each intended to cradle a solitary flower of their choosing.
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Presque Rien
with Erwan Bouroullec
Led by the acclaimed French designer Erwan Bouroullec, the workshop 'Presque Rien' unfolded as an exploration of design possibilities within the setting of his estate and recently renovated Burgundy farm. The project envisioned an open canvas, encouraging ECAL’s Bachelor Industrial Design students, to diverge from traditional problem-solving.
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ai.dentity
with EPFL+ECAL Lab
Guided by EPFL + ECAL Lab, participants explored how AI technologies can be integrated into product design to enhance functionality and enrich the user experience. Over the week-long workshop, BA students engaged with the theoretical foundations of AI while experimenting with practical applications across multiple use cases.
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RAPID LIQUID PRINT
with Bjorn Sparrman, Hamilton Forsythe
A short and engaging workshop held in collaboration with Rapid Liquid Print, a Boston-based startup and spinoff of the MIT Self-Assembly Lab, explored the fundamentals of Embedded 3D Printing by questioning, in both technical and poetic terms, what defines a curve, a surface, or a thickened volume as it transitions from the digital to the physical world.
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SHOE REFORM
with Michel Charlot, Siddartha Berns
The Shoe Reform workshop, led by designer Michel Charlot and Siddhartha Berns, representative of AddiPole — a hub for reverse engineering and additive manufacturing — brought students together for an innovative exploration of 3D scanning technologies, in collaboration with Technopôle Sainte-Croix.
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Wonderbread
with Francesca Sarti
Within the Wonderbread workshop led by Francesca Sarti, food designer and founder of Arabeschi di Latte, BA Industrial Design students explored history, traditions, rituals, and recipes related to bread, in order to imagine new unique signature bread.
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CIN CIN !
with Chris Kabel
Within a one-week workshop with Designer Chris Kabel, BA Industrial Design students were asked to develop a glass for a drink of their choice, whether it was for a cocktail, a fresh beer, a classy Negroni, or simply a glass for water to quench their thirst. The final designs reflect the characteristics of the drink or emphasize how the drink is prepared, served, and drunk. All glasses were blown in the ECAL courtyard with the support of the artisans of Swiss glass manufacturer Niesenglass.
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Abundance & Scarcity
with Nadine Sterk
When we live in a society with so much abundance yet at the same time so much scarcity, how do we discern the resources around us? How can we look to our surroundings to learn about where things come from, or how we might apply them in our own lives? More importantly, how can we live more harmoniously with nature by respecting it and taking only what we need? Within the workshop held by Nadine Sterk from Atelier NL the BA Industrial Design students were asked to create tableware around the theme ‘Abundance & Scarcity' from vernacular earth collected together in the Sauvabelin woods in Lausanne. Students and crew had no hesitation in getting their hands (and clothes) dirty to knead, turn, form, glaze, and fire ceramic tableware that tells a story.
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Junkyard Diving
with Philippe Malouin
"Form follows function" is an expression attributed to the modernist architect Louis Sullivan. It is a statement that is quite relevant to industrial design. On the other hand, form can sometimes also determine function in a process of reverse exploration. During the workshop with Philippe Malouin, students were encouraged to look for new functions inspired by forms found in a metal recycling center. In this process, random discoveries and associations were made to generate a new and surprising vocabulary of forms.
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Alternative Measuring Tools
with Manuel Krebs (NORM)
Measuring, it seems, is one of the dominant concerns of modern society. We measure ourselves, our weight, our height, our temperature, from head to toe, from collar size to shoe size. We measure what is around us, from tiny to incredibly large. We measure time (from seconds to lifetimes), we measure the familiar (length, weight, volume) and the unusual (sound, radiation, voltage), we have measurement systems for everyday life and for experts. For this workshop, the students of the Bachelor Industrial Design have developed alternative measuring devices.
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Paper Park
with Emile Barret, Marie Douel
Marie Douel and Emile Barret from Hors Pistes led a workshop with the 2nd year bachelor in industrial design. They asked the students to create a maze made entirely from the paper waste of the ECAL printing centre. Based on the principle of the exquisite corpse, each group created one part of the labyrinth with a strong aesthetic and structural approach, allowing the visitor to get lost in distinct universes.
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Workshop Clara Von Zweigbergk
with Clara Von Zweigbergk
Under the guidance of Clara Von Zweigbergk, the 2nd year students had to design paper or cardboard objects around the theme of celebrations: birthdays, anniversaries, holidays, and any other type of festivities.
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Workshop Jonathan Olivares
with Jonathan Olivares
Jonathan Olivares asked the 3rd year students to identify an object or subject of interest and consider a room built around it. The room purpose, materials contents and construction all stem from themes found within the selected object or subject. The room should be 130 Square meters, free standing, transferable to any location or context, and could serve as an exhibition, installation or habitable interior.
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Summer University Istanbul
with Chris Kabel, Stéphane Halmaï-Voisard
For their graduation trip, the 3rd year students went to Istanbul. Accompanied by Stéphane Halmaï-Voisard and Chris Kabel and collaborating with students from Bilgi University, they had to create souvenirs of the city. Some were able to collaborate directly with local craftspeople. The projects were exhibited at the Istanbul Design Biennial at the end of this trip and had the chance to see their ECAL x Mac Guffin project also exhibited there at that time.
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Workshop Fabien Cappello
with Fabien Cappello
Under the guidance of Fabien Cappello, designer in Mexico, 2nd year Industrial Design Bachelor students were asked to work around books on the move. They had a one-week workshop to imagine different scenarios.
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Workshop Geckeler Michels
with David Geckeler, Frank Michels
Under the guidance of the Berlin based design studio Geckeler Michels, 1st year Industrial Design Bachelor students were asked to built Monuments out of Styrofoam blocks within one week.
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Workshop Point and shoot
with Alex Hulme, Paul Wolfson
Under the guidance of Paul Wolfson and Alex Hulme, designers at Map Project Office, 3rd year Industrial Design Bachelor students and Media & Interaction Design Bachelor students have conceived "point-and-shoot" objects. Those ones were inspired by the opportunities created by this new wave of Open Source and could be made easily available to people who might need or want them.
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Workshop Julie Richoz
with Julie Richoz
Under the guidance of Julie Richoz, a designer from Paris, 1st year Industrial Design Bachelor students were asked to rethink ladders. They had a one-week workshop to do so.
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Workshop Bloc studios
with Joséphine Choquet (Thévoz Choquet), Virgile Thévoz (Thévoz Choquet)
Marble connotes weight, stability and robustness, and is a quintessentially noble material. In light of this, what kind of objects are able to take full advantage of these properties? How can the sensations of balance or weight be fully expressed, while respecting the innate qualities and limits of this substance? This was the question that ECAL /University of Art and Design Lausanne Industrial Design Bachelor’s students addressed in 2016 at a workshop led by Swiss designers Joséphine Choquet and Virgile Thévoz. This collection has been jointly developed over recent years by Bloc studios and ECAL, and comprises a selection of objects that focus on the rational balance between materials and proportions – playful ball-joint mirrors, punk marble plates pierced through with steel, marble vases in tension with aluminium, minimal tub plugs and mesmerising wedged vases.
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Summer University Tokyo
with Nicholaï Wiig-Hansen, Stéphane Halmaï-Voisard
The 2nd Industrial design students were asked to create a mobile (kinetic sculpture) as part of a collaborative project with the Japanese brand Tempo. Tempo is owned by Mother tool, a product manufacturer that works with local craftsmen and different know-how, from Ashikaga and Tokyo area, to create products by pairing up and making the best use of different materials and production techniques. With the support of the "Summer University" program of the Canton of Vaud, the students went to Japan , to present their ideas and prototypes to Tempo’s design and production team, do factory visits and totally immerse yourselves into the Japanese culture.
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Workshop Aldo Bakker
with Aldo Bakker
Under the guidance of Aldo Bakker, designer in Amsterdam, 1st year Industrial Design Bachelor students were asked to rethink pouring vessels. They had a one-week workshop to do so. Images by ECAL/Younès Klouche
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Portable LED lights
with Cédric Duchêne, Stéphane Halmaï-Voisard
Under the guidance of Cédric Duchêne, Engineer at EPFL+ECAL Lab, and Stéphane Halmaï-Voisard, Head of Bachelor Industrial Design, 3rd year Industrial Design Bachelor students were asked to conceive portable LED lights based on the inherent qualities of this technologie: compact, durable, energy efficient and modular. Projects by Gianfranco Baechtold, Tobias Brunner, Raphaël Constantin, Athime De Crecy, Marie-Camille Gras, Vincent Mailh, Zoé Nguyen, Elie Reboul, Paul Vachon and Adrian Woo, assisted by Mathieu Lang and Nadine Fumiko Schaub. Video by Jean-Guillaume Sonnier, assisted by Mathieu Lang and Nadine Fumiko Schaub
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Soft Goods
with Christophe Guberan
Durant ce workshop, les étudiants ont été amené à développer un objet en utilisant ou détournant un procédé CNC existant de manière simple et intelligente. Les procédés CNC leurs ont permis de déposer de la matière, fusionner, découper, emboutir, laminer, fraiser des matériaux souples existants, afin de les former, assembler, structurer ou additionner. Photographies de Marvin Leuvrey et Cécilia Poupon (BA Photographie)
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DNA
with Pauline Deltour
For the DNA project, the students of 1st year Bachelor Industrial Design had to design an handle which look like them personality and them value. The goal was to make this object singular and different from all the other projects.
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Still Digital
with Maik Bluhm, Sebastian Gerbert, Elisabeth Schulze
During this workshop week, the students of 3rd year Bachelor Industrial Design have aimed to create one digital still life by using 3D modeling software and 3D rendering software. Each still life includes one flower and one vase. The students reinterpreted this constraint and freely explored all the possibilities of shepes, materials, arragement of objects anduse of light.
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Inter-Face
with Stéphane Halmaï-Voisard
Following a one week collaborative workshop between ECAL’s 2ndyear Industrial Design students and Hongik University’s Product and Space Design students, where in mixed teams, they worked on a range of MASKS to cover, disguise, embellish, cloak, protect, decorate or enhance people. Through this project, they shared and discovered their mutual cultures and habits. The outcome is a series of colourful and surprising masks reinterpreting this ancestral object, materialised with textiles and know-how harvested in the maze of Seoul’s enormous Dongdaemun market. Workshop realized as part of the Summer University '15 program of the Canton de Vaud, led by Stéphane Halmaï-Voisard, assisted by Giulia Amelie Chehab and Marceau Avogadro. Photos ECAL/Marceau Avogadro
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Sheep Mowers of Metis
with Adrien Rovero
Reford Gardens and ECAL collaborated on bringing to Québec 25 students from Bachelor Industrial Design, with the support of the "Summer University" program of the Canton of Vaud. This project was conceived and built by 2nd year students in the Bachelor Industrial Design from ECAL/Ecole cantonale d'art de Lausanne, Switzerland, overseen by the Swiss designer Adrien Rovero, on the occasion of a one week workshop at Reford Gardens. Photos ECAL/Nicolas Haeni
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Drop the chair
with Pierre Charpin
For this workshop, the students of 1st year Bachelor Industrial Design had to forget what they knew on chair and seating device and they have aimed to experiment on new way of seat. The result is a diversity of construction to support our body. Photo ECAL/Axel Crettenand
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Andreï Roublev
with Jörg Boner
One week workshop led by zurich based designer Jörg Boner on the topic of moulding process. The 2nd year bachelor industrial design explored and experimented the technique by using tin, which they could cast in the school’s workshop. The point of the results consists in the tin objects as well as in their moulds.
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Kites
with Alberto Meda
Workshop on kites led by designer and engineer Alberto Meda. 2nd year students from the Industrial Design Bachelor worked not only on shape and color, but also on physical questions about dynamic in the air.
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The Best Designed International Design Award 2014
with Lernert & Sander
Result of a one week workshop led by Lernert & Sander, Amsterdam based artist duo with students of the 1st year Bachelor in Industrial Design and Graphic Design.
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Workshop NUS Singapore
with Christian Boucharenc (NUS), Elric Petit
Hawker Centre Singapore Summer University May 2014 This Summer University workshop on the Hawker Centre is a collaboration between the Division of Industrial Design, National University of Singapore and the ECAL / University of Art and Design Lausanne, Switzerland. Hawker Centres are traditional dinning halls where Singaporean gather to eat together daily. More than a restaurant, these places are a real melting pot of cultures in Singapore, mainly between the Chinese, Malays and Indians. The aim of the workshop was to immerse the students for one week in the heart of Singapore’s cosmopolitan culture through the Hawker Centres. ECAL and NUS students worked together and designed objects such as utensils, tableware packagings or signage that improves the experience of customers and cooks. All the prototypes have been produced in the NUS « prototyping lab ». This workshop allowed the students from both universities to share their know-how in the field of industrial design. The result of this research reflects a wide variety of design solutions that improves Hawker Centres in Singapore.
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New–Old–New
with Andreas Engesvik
During this one week workshop, the designer Andreas Engesvik invite the students to go back in time and find an object that interested them. The goal was to create an interpretation of it, translate the original conceptual idea into a new expression but within the same category.
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Rond–Carré
with Constance Guisset
This week of workshop was guided by the french designer Constance Guisset, with the topic round—square. She confronted the students with the design decisions they would have to make during designing a domestic object so they can understand why and how to choose the forms that would eventually define their products.
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Chain Reaction
with Mark Braun
Chain Reaction is a system of 10 connected actions within designed objects to celebrate the gesture of mechanics, material and color on a length of 10 meters
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with Georg Schnitzer, Peter Umgeher
The aim of the workshop was to uncover/discover relations between a certain product and selected references - making parallels and differences visible. This research should be an inspiring, hands-on and analogue process
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with Floris Hovers
One week workshop held by the dutch designer Floris Hovers about games. The starting point of the project was the favorite game of the student childhoods. After analysing and observing them, they were asked to imagine all kinds of games and toys only with on constrain to have fun!
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Line
with Pauline Deltour
For this one week workshop held by the french designer Pauline Deltour, the students had to consider the use of a line as a starting point to put their idea in form and volume just by using a metal wire.
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Ship
with Antoine Boudin
One week workshop with Antoine Boudin whereas the students were asked to design a navigation object using the impulse of the sail. The results are hybrid objects between toys and sculptures with strong aesthetic characteristics and intelligent constructions.
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NID India
with Mann Singh
In the context of the Summer University collaboration program between the National Institute of Design (NID) of Ahmedabad, India, and ECAL, the students were asked to work around a local material : the bamboo.
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Workshop A C E
with Camille Blin, Emmanuel Mbessé, Arnault Weber
Thinking about a local material, snow seemed to be a quite obvious choice, as it is also an important cultural and economical aspect for Switzerland. When the snow season approaches a whole aesthetics covers our streets, a lot of snow items pop up in stores. Would it be possible to invent new ones, to redesign some or just to play with this winter aesthetics? This is what we will try to find out during this week workshop.
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Workshop Pasta Power
with Francesca Sarti
“Pasta” is a complex world where design and craftsmanship, traditions and industries coexist. The workshop will be an occasion to explores these different aspects, creating hand-made pasta, efficient molds and a convivial space where guests will enjoy the “social power of pasta”. To highlight the important play between simple ingredients and their creative interpretation, students, working in groups, will be asked to invent their own handmade pasta and share the story, the idea behind it. Then students will work on a mold to make the production of their pasta more efficient and in the end they will pull together to create a concept for a pasta restaurant.
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Super Value
with Hector Serrano
The students had to imagine a product that would be created out of one board of pine wood with the specific dimensions of 30x30x1000 mm. At the end of the week a sale market took place where the student with the most profit with his wooden board would be rewarded with a prize given out by Hector Serrano himself.
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Color
with Pierre Charpin
Workshop with the designer Pierre Charpin and the 3rd year bachelor industrial design students around the topic of color.
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Workshop Mieux
with Michel Charlot
Workshop led by designer Michel Charlot. The goal was to capture a simple everyday object and give it a significant improvement like formal, functional or sensitive.
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Workshop chaussures
with Joachim de Callatay
Shoes workshop led by Joachim de Callatay