Changeable light
Changeable light is a lamp that can shift its shape and light. The lampshade is woven with optic fiber and is therefore the light source in itself. Due to its structure it is formable and by bending the fabric the lamp can change its appearance.
Soft Balance
A collaborative investigation of mixing textile design approaches that manifest itself into a stilleben
Lisa Darland (SE), Pia Angela Rasmussen (DK), Ida Blichfeld (DK) and Lisa Adele Rogersdotter (SE) met at The Royal Academy in Copenhagen, where they developed different approaches working with textiles and the contexts of materiality. For SSDD 2023, they meet as young designers collaborating, using craft, narrative and performativity, to compose a soft stilleben. Working as a nomadic textile collective, the group resonates with the question of function and aesthetics. They seek to mix and reinstall textile design, asking how they, as designers, can find a common language in the balance of dissonance and harmony. By composing textiles and objects in a soft Stilleben, they aim to investigate the space between objects and the details within, from the treads' vibrations, colour expression to narrative stories. A stilleben that emphasizes the variety of approaches and expressions of the textile designers. In the stilleben you can find textiles made with techniques such as hand weaving, jacquard weaving, hand knitting, jacquard knitting, digital printing and manipulation. With Soft Balance, they come together as designers seeking a professional fellowship and trying to find their role in the balance of craft, industry, traditions and the ever-evolving technologies with the challenges of today's society. Step inside a soft experience where you can look, interact and touch.
Lisa Darland (SE), Pia Angela Rasmussen (DK), Ida Blichfeld (DK) and Lisa Adele Rogersdotter (SE) met at The Royal Academy in Copenhagen, where they developed different approaches working with textiles and the contexts of materiality. For SSDD 2023, they meet as young designers collaborating, using craft, narrative and performativity, to compose a soft stilleben. Working as a nomadic textile collective, the group resonates with the question of function and aesthetics. They seek to mix and reinstall textile design, asking how they, as designers, can find a common language in the balance of dissonance and harmony. By composing textiles and objects in a soft Stilleben, they aim to investigate the space between objects and the details within, from the treads' vibrations, colour expression to narrative stories. A stilleben that emphasizes the variety of approaches and expressions of the textile designers. In the stilleben you can find textiles made with techniques such as hand weaving, jacquard weaving, hand knitting, jacquard knitting, digital printing and manipulation. With Soft Balance, they come together as designers seeking a professional fellowship and trying to find their role in the balance of craft, industry, traditions and the ever-evolving technologies with the challenges of today's society. Step inside a soft experience where you can look, interact and touch.
Finding Utopia
MULTI LAYERED 3D RUGS
The project “Finding Utopia”, consisting of three series of multi layered 3D rugs, serves as a more sustainable option to the tufted carpet. The multiple layers in the 3D rugs provides the user with a thick rug to be used as a seating surface in the same way as a tufted carpet. The rugs are made to be produced industrially and can due to their jacquard woven structure, be part of a circular system. The rugs can be separated by the end of use, due to there woven structure and are made of 100% wool and can therefore also be recycled as a whole.
Because they are jacquard woven they also have two sides that gives the user two designs in one, which makes the rugs more flexible in turns of change of room or living situation.
UNIVERSE OF FINDING UTOPIA
The inspiration for the rugs comes from the duality in the universe of “Finding Utopia”, where nature and buildings has collided and the lines between fantasy and reality is diffuse. In the universe the proportion between buildings and nature have shifted, nature has started to take over and the line between what is pleasant and unpleasant is vague
The inspiration for the rugs comes from the duality in the universe of “Finding Utopia”, where nature and buildings has collided and the lines between fantasy and reality is diffuse. In the universe the proportion between buildings and nature have shifted, nature has started to take over and the line between what is pleasant and unpleasant is vague
BACKGROUND
In the EU 1,6 miljon ton carpet waste arise each year and less than 3 % is recycled. In November 2018 Changing Markets Foundation released a report on how to increase circularity within the carpet industry. The report focuses on the vision that by 2025 all carpets put on the market in the EU should be separately collected, reusable and fully recyclable. Around 80% of carpets are tufted and are very popular. But due to the mixture of fibers, the latex glue treatment and the cutting of the fibers during production, its recyclability is limited.
In the EU 1,6 miljon ton carpet waste arise each year and less than 3 % is recycled. In November 2018 Changing Markets Foundation released a report on how to increase circularity within the carpet industry. The report focuses on the vision that by 2025 all carpets put on the market in the EU should be separately collected, reusable and fully recyclable. Around 80% of carpets are tufted and are very popular. But due to the mixture of fibers, the latex glue treatment and the cutting of the fibers during production, its recyclability is limited.
In Sweden over a thousand tons of wool is burned or thrown out every year while we at the same time import wool and wool goods for a value of four hundred million Swedish crowns.
“Mylla” and “Pyra” are two textural rugs made by hand out of 100% Swedish wool from farms in Skåne and Halland in southern Sweden. A fiber that is flameproof, dirt-repellent, biodegradable and can regulate the humidity. The rug is created with minimal cuts of the fibers and utilizes the characteristics of the wool, knit and weave. This combination creates a soft, spongy texture that also can be used as a seating surface. The process of getting rid of the wool (burning and disintegration) and the extensive fields of Skåne served as an inspiration. Fenced fields where the sheep spend their days, spring to autumn.
“Mylla” and “Pyra” rug are knitted and woven on a custom made frame, a technique developed in the project “Rethinking the basic”
Mylla Rug
“Mylla” is a Swedish word for mixing things into the soil.
“Mylla” and “Pyra” are two textural rugs made by hand out of 100% Swedish wool from farms in Skåne and Halland in southern Sweden. A fiber that is flameproof, dirt-repellent, biodegradable and can regulate the humidity. The rug is created with minimal cuts of the fibers and utilizes the characteristics of the wool, knit and weave. This combination creates a soft, spongy texture that also can be used as a seating surface. The process of getting rid of the wool (burning and disintegration) and the extensive fields of Skåne served as an inspiration. Fenced fields where the sheep spend their days, spring to autumn.
“Mylla” and “Pyra” rug are knitted and woven on a custom made frame, a technique developed in the project “Rethinking the basic”
Mylla Rug
“Mylla” is a Swedish word for mixing things into the soil.
“Mylla” rug is part of the “PROXIMITY” collection, a collaboration between the Copenhagen-based digital gallery ADORNO and Form/Design Center, showcasing a selection of new work from ten southern Swedish designers and studios. The physical exhibition of “PROXIMITY” will take place at Lokstallarna during Southern Sweden Design Days, 19-22 May 2022.
Pyra Rug
“Pyra” is the Swedish word for burning slowly without flames.
Pyra Rug
“Pyra” is the Swedish word for burning slowly without flames.
Dygnet Chair
The Dygnet Chair is a collaboration together with furniture designer Taylor Gray (BFA 2018 FD, Rhode Island School of Design). Dygnet is made of wool and steel and can be understood as an illustration of its making. On a macro level, bold bending gestures create the backrest and seating surface. At the micro scale, the textile features steel wires of varying hardness and thickness integrated into the custom hand woven surfaces. Taken as a whole, these gestures and systems yield an innovative structure that is supple and inviting
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