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Tomoko Azumi (JAP/UK)
www.tnadesignstudio.co.uk Air Made Visible20.08. - 26.08.2006 |
| How do you capture and share sensations with others? How are sensory impressions transformed into something visible and tactile? The power of design makes it possible. The following five words represent the five stages of your workshop project. Space - in the surrounding nature of Boisbuchet, you watch, walk, listen, touch, run, taste, lay, jump, smell, dip, roll...... Sense - free your senses to discover what the environment has to offer Enhance - consider how you can develop and enhance the sensations you experienced Create - design a physical thing that translates your joy into something visual or tactile Share - re-experience your sensation and that of other workshop participants together through what is created The end result can be in any format - an object to handle, equipment to play on, clothes to wear, a space to inhabit, performance to spend time with one another or even a dish to be tasted together. Extend the horizons of your conception of DESIGN, contribute what you are good at to the workshop and find something new. Tomoko AzumiTomoko Azumi was born in Hiroshima in 1966. After studying environmental design at Kyoto City University of Art (Japan), she attended the Royal College of Art (UK) from which she received an MA in furniture design in 1995. The same year, she founded the studio AZUMI in London together with Shin Azumi, specialising in furniture design, products and set design. Her works are elegant and playful, staking out the zone between product design, performance and interaction. Accordingly, the focus is geared toward transforming the objects in question. The starting point for new projects is often a precise observation of human behaviour with the goal of improving conventional designs. Yet in the end, she also aims to change people's everyday behaviour in the subtlest of ways. She teaches us to seek new forms of interaction, for these should not merely be aesthetic but should also reveal their beauty in a high level of functionality.Tomoko Azumi has won numerous awards, such as for best furniture, best lighting and best product of the year. In 2005, Azumi founded "t.n.a. Design Studio". |