INDUSTRIAL DESIGN
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.
INDUSTRIAL DESIGN
by Basile Avvanzino, Lena Bernasconi, Diego Eiholzer, Teo Primo Frizzarin, Victoria Guffroy, Jeffrey Krieger, Amedeo Oddo, Jeanne Reymond, Till Seegräber, Jacobo Zunzunegui
The fittings on soft goods go barely noticed most of the time, yet form a crucial part of the products’ overall appearance and user experience. As soon as we become restricted in our mobility, some of the mechanisms of these fittings can quickly become a major challenge in everyday life. This semester, under the guidance of Friederike Daumiller, the students worked with the Swiss association ASA-Handicap mental and the senior-lab to developed hardware for garments that are dedicated to the idea of inclusive design.
INDUSTRIAL DESIGN
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.
INDUSTRIAL DESIGN
with Elric Petit
The aim of this project was to approach industrial casting techniques through a playful, experimental laboratory. The students produced objects in plaster, which did not necessarily have to have a function. However, they must be technically interesting, i.e. their molds must be simple to produce, and the molded parts must feature singular characteristics inherent in the molding process. The molds (free materials), together with the plaster castings, were shown for evaluation in the form of a group exhibition.
INDUSTRIAL DESIGN
with Adrien Rovero
The 1st year class was invited by the Museum für Gestaltung in Zurich to design wooden toys that were exhibited as part of the retrospective exhibition Willy Guhl: thinking with your hands, which ran from December 9, 2022 to March 26, 2023. Curator Renate Menzi and set designer Sebastian Marbacher were their main contacts. For 39 years, Willy Guhl has taught at the Zurich School of Design (ZHdK), focusing on toy design with a highly sensitive and applied experimental approach. It is precisely in this context that the students, 40 years on, have come up with ideas in line with Willy Guhl's approach. Hands On, the title of the exhibition and project, defines a particular spirit of hands-on design. How do you think with your hands? How do you develop an object that can be manipulated and provides a particular experience? The students therefore began the project by experimenting, testing, manipulating and demonstrating the simple principles of mechanisms in the form of a scale model.