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INDUSTRIAL DESIGN

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 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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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.