Tubes, balls, sheets; as many standardized material that allowed USM to develop for 50 years timeless furniture, evolving over time and modulable. How to detach from this and aim to create exhibition pieces using these materials that make up the USM series and therefore retaining their image? The transformation function is another way of perceiving modularity. The USM furniture is so far mainly a storage cabinet and desk. Imagine how strong and unique pieces to mark 50 years of USM? Can we see the USM and its components as a source of material? Can you break it down, dial the other way? These were some of the questions that motived students during the workshop.
Workshop tutor : Albert Schrurs, Michèle Rossier (director regional of Teo Jakob)
Students :
BA Interior Architecture
Antoine Lapeyre, Cohann Rémy, Shizuka Saito, Mélanie Maulaz, Maxime Cerruti, Amigo Randy, Armend Krasniqi, Inès-Charlotte Brodard, Annaëlle Budry, Bertrand Van Dorp, Amélie Ramseyer
MA Space and Communication
Laura Loyola, Anastasia Karpova
Head of Department : Jan Geipel
Photo Credits
© Nicolas Schopfer
Celebrating USM with Teo Jakob
Workshop Albert Schrurs, HEAD–AI’ID x USM