London Design Festival 2015: artist and designer Seetal Solanki is launching her materials consultancy studio Matter with a 6-day exhibition and programme of events .
Tamsin Van Essesn
Living in a Materials World will deliver with each other a week of talks and demonstrations alongside an exhibition that seeks to demystify the partnership in between materials and the creative method.
Tamsin Van Essesn
Solanki established Matter as a analysis studio that will explore ideas and processes, with the aim of increasing awareness of the roles of the two tangible substances and conceptual resources.
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The exhibition will showcase perform from designers such as Tamsin van Essen, Lightning + Kinglyface and Marlene Huissoud, all of whom have created pieces that correspond with Matter’s goals.
Amy Radcliffe
Amy Radcliffe’s scentography “camera” captures and records odours, while ceramicist van Essesn’s Erosion series of porcelain sculptures recreate the look of all-natural processes – which previously featured as component of an exhibition in Prague.
Marlene Huissoud
Experimental designer Huissoud is exhibiting a series of pieces manufactured from bio-degradable resin collected by honey bees, and a “wooden leather” material composed of glue derived from the fibres of silkworm cocoons.
Marlene Huissoud
Researcher and designer Shamees Aden has also explored new resources with the amoeba surface-adapting trainer – a prototype that explores the prospects of producing new resources from protocells.
Shamees Aden
In addition to the exhibition of perform, there will be a five-day series of events, themed around every of the 5 senses. Speakers will explore everything from developing with residing matter, to the hyperlink between scent and memory, and approaches to make meals from foraged landfill elements.
Lightning + Kinglyface
“It really is not only critical to worth the issues that we make but also to recognize how building and exploitation of supplies can transform or ruin the factors we presently engage with, regardless of whether that be a view or part of our everyday routine,” mentioned Solanki.
Lightning + Kinglyface
“We want to improve knowing of the significance of the raw ingredients and forces concerned in generating the items we want and need to have,” she additional.
Soderberg Mills
The exhibition will open on 22 September 2015 at the One Great Deed Today store as component of London Style Festival, which will consider place from 19 to 27 September.
Kia Utzon-Frank
Also on display at this year’s festival will be artist Barnaby Barford’s Tower of Babel installation created from three,000 tiny outlets, Norwegian design and style studio Kneip’s series of moving metal and wood climate sensors, and Japanese ceramics designer Reiko Kaneko’s glazed porcelain vases.
