rana haddad x UQAM . design international . montreal | canada . 05 / 2018

bilance

by Chritstian Belanger, Roxane Gregoire and Philippe Lamothe

debatclap

by alexandra cotest-louis and marina pizzi

kraklak

by mriam ciot and lezam mesrob

paxylo

by myra morn-struthers and nayeli lurac

ehomdar

by catherine doyon-couturier and pamela page

ballayla

by carla sarah-jeanne

‘Undoing / Doing’

the workshop introduces students to alternative ways in starting a design project, the students will slowly discover how a ready–made can influence, guide and effect the course of evolution of a project and helps out in generating new ideas. Coming up with creative design opportunities by observing found occurrences. The aim of such a methodology, that seems unrelated to the subject, unknowingly, will allow them to lose their familiarity with the “project-to-be”, and see it under a new light.

What would a chair look like if your knees bend the other way ?

Steven Wright

students are assigned five verbs.

they are required to get 2 broken chairs - recycled - and merge them into one.

actions rather than shapes or metaphors.

the merger of the two chairs has to employ the five verbs they were assigned.

Experimenting and trusting the process, is more important than the final form of the composition.

The final piece should be able to carry the weight of an average person. It does not have to look like a chair, nor does it have to be comfortable.

students are to invent a non-existing word that will be the name their your object and what it means phonetically in relation to the final outcome.

To roll

To crease

To bend

To shorten

To twist

To split

To cut

To remove

To differ

To disarrange

To curve

To inlay

To hook

To suspend

To enclose

To dilute

To modulate

To erase

To hammer

To fragment

To disconnect

To dance

To balance

To produce sound

To stretch

To flatten

To wear

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