Wednesday, 27 January

Problems with open floor plans and privacy, when working from home for longer periods of time, have become of current interest in connection with the pandemic. In the assignment of the workshop, you will design a textile space for work in your home and more specifically for the living room.
These problems have existed before the pandemic and is also found in working environments such as open office landscapes and should be dealt with critical approaches concerning social aspects and work environment issues.

The space that you will design, which also can be several spaces, should meet the requirements for light, sound environment and privacy. Ideas about materials, textile techniques, scale and perception/changeability (light, sound etc) during a day should also be presented. You can choose how you want to present your proposal, for example photomontage, film, drawings, prototype, etc.
The day for the workshop will end in a collective discussion when the proposals will be presented (ca 1,5 hours). The panel includes students as well as Kristina Fridh, Ulrika Mårtensson, Sergio Montero Bravo and Jonas Ahnmé.

Maja Willén, PhD, is an art historian working as a lecturer and researcher at the Department of Culture and Aesthetics at Stockholm University. Her main research interest is contemporary housing and dwelling ideals from an everyday user perspective. Willén has published texts on the breakthrough of the open plan designed home in the early Swedish 21st century, on the reuse of fin de siècle housing and on the use and construction of history in contemporary kitchen catalogues.

Sylvie Krüger is a designer and book author who lives and works in Munich, Germany. She develops flexible architecture, specialising in the use of textiles in an architectural context to solve requirements concerning view, light, sound and climate. In 2009, she published the book Textile Architecture at Jovis Verlag, whereupon she curated the exhibition, Textile Architecture, at the State Textile and Industry Museum in Augsburg, Germany. In addition to her projects, she gives lectures and writes articles for professional journals.