Air made visible

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How do you capture and share your sensations with others? How can a sensory experience be transformed (or transferred) into something visible and tactile? We believe the power of design makes it possible.

The following words represent the stages of our workshop project:

Sense – in the surrounding environment of Boisbuchet, you watch, walk, listen, touch, run, lie down, jump, smell, dip, roll…… and open up your senses to explore what the environment has to offer.

Reflect and interpret – consider how you can capture and enhance the sensations you experienced in a visible or tangible form.

Create and share – design something visual or tactile, a device through which you and other workshop participants can experience the joy that you had through your senses.

Explore and extend the horizons of DESIGN and find something new.

Tomoko Azumi (JP)

Tomoko Azumi was born in Hiroshima in 1966, studied Environmental Design in City University of Art (Japan), then Furniture Design at the Royal College of Art in London (UK). After running a partnership AZUMI in London from 1995 to 2004, she opened her studio 't.n.a. Design Studio' in East London in 2005. Specialising in furniture, products and exhibition design, she seeks ways to capture memory of everyday life in material and form, to give user a comfortable engagement to object. Functionality and long life of an object are other keys for her design, and more and more, Tomoko and her studio are keen to talk about sustainable issues and quality of life, in relation to design activities.

Tomoko Azumi is a project tutor at Royal College of Art, Design Products, led a project with YAMAHA, for example. She is also a Research Fellow at London Metropolitan University, explores possibility of bridging digital techniques and conceptual design.

Tomoko Azumi has her works in public collections, includes ‘Table=Chest at Victoria & Albert Museum, London