Marlène Huissoud (FR)

Slow Down Please

July 21st – July 27th 2019

The Workshop

In a time where everything is falling apart, nobody can stand alone.
The worldwide disappearance of species is a fact. Climate change is a fact. Nationalism is a fact. We could all stop here. But as artists and designers and citizens we have to act. Nobody wants to see another beautiful chair anymore, so the question is rather: How can we can give back to nature?

Let us stand together surrounded by this reality, by future, and by nature.
‘Slow Down Please’ is first and foremost a reflexion. It is not about a design piece or about an art piece. It is an experiment with something that always exists around us: nature. This workshop shall materialise what is happening around us and how we might give back to nature. The answer might be a small gesture or an attitude but we will push this idea of giving back during the whole workshop. What makes sense to exist now? What needs to be made? What do you want to make then? What do you want to express?

The workshop's participants should take a one-week break and use Domaine de Boisbuchet as a resource to ideate and make objects, scenarios, machines, or installations that help the Domaine's natural environment.

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Marlène Huissoud France

Marlène Huissoud is an experimental designer and artist that works as a freelance designer for different companies alongside the art & design areas. In 2014, she graduated from a MA Material Futures at Central Saint Martins’ School of Art and Design in London where she developed the project From Insects. An exploration of insect materials from the common honeybee and the Indian silkworm.

Marlene’s work questions our way of making by creating purposeful pieces that ethically challenge the properties of natural resources and that defy the role of Design in society and its use nowadays. Self aware and progressive, Marlene’s work balances Nature’s natural disorder with Man’s disordered need to find meaning in everything. Her work process is an invitation to take consciousness of our impact on Earth and act upon it. This juxtaposition allows the observer to take a look and wonder whether or not if things would be better if we just let the world be. She believes in the value of a concept and the importance of the creative process.

Marlene has been finalist of the Prix Lilliane Bettencourt as ‘Exceptional Talent’ in 2023, has been named ‘Game Changers’ by AD100, won the Wood Award in 2020, has been named as one of the UK’s top 70 rising design stars representing the future of British design by the Design Council. She has been nominated by the Arts Foundation UK for the Material Innovation Award in 2016, won the Make me! Design Prize in 2015, nominated for Design Parade at Villa Noailles in 2015, won the Diploma Selection Award at Designblok in 2014.

Her work has been exhibited worldwide in major Institutions such as Victoria and Albert Museum London, Centre Pompidou Paris, Musée des Arts Décoratifs Paris, Chamber New York, Design Miami Basel, Paris and Miami, Design Museum Barcelona, Artipelag Museum Stockholm, Design Days Dubai, Rossana Orlandi Milan, MAK Vienna… Her work is part of major permanent collections, Centre Pompidou Paris, Musée des Arts Décoratifs Paris, Science Museum London, FRAC Grand Large, CNAP Paris…

https://www.marlene-huissoud.com/
https://www.instagram.com/marlenehuissoud/

Housing

  • Accommodation & food are included

  • We can accommodate for special catering

  • All participants sleep in dormitories

  • To book a private room or bring additional guests, get in touch: workshops@boisbuchet.org

Education

  • Our staff are available to help you conceptualize & produce your designs

  • Tools & materials are provided by Boisbuchet

  • All workshops are taught in English

  • The number of participants is limited to 22

Activities