This workshop focuses on setting up a design studio from scratch, starting from a material choice and a simple production logic. Over the course of one week, participants will conceive, develop, and present a self-initiated studio project: a repeatable product designed to function within real conditions of production, distribution, and use.

Working individually or in small groups, participants will build a “micro design studio”. Through hands-on experimentation, they will develop prototypes using accessible techniques and standard materials, while achieving products with a strong character. The emphasis is on designing systems that generate multiple outcomes: one method, several possible products.

Beyond the objects themselves, the workshop addresses what it means to operate an independent design practice. Participants will work on pricing, margins, production scale, and distribution, and will consider questions of shipping, licensing, and collaboration with labels, brands, or manufacturers. Design decisions are continuously tested against everyday realities: a product must be producible, reasonably priced, and viable in order to exist.

Boisbuchet’s workshops and its wide range of tools and materials offer an ideal environment for this approach. By the end of the week, participants will present not only their prototypes, but also the tools, production systems, and organizational logic behind their micro studio or factory. The workshop reflects Lex Pott’s own practice, where design, decision-making, and economics are closely linked, and where constraints act as a driver for strong, clear, and viable design outcomes.