Project
PROTECTION / INSULATION
-Wool is a sensorial experience that makes me think of home-
WORKTEAM
-Zuzana Ondrejkova, Fiona
Daly, Wiebke Aumann, Bàrbara Grosskopf
KEYWORDS: Nomadic, Safe and Games, Protective qualities of wool, Sound absorption, Home/cocoon, Interior/exterior, Necessary protection/overprotection, Protection.   |
| Mind Mapping 'Protection and Insulation' . . .Wool
WHAT IS THE PROJECT ABOUT?
The « Protection
/ insulation » work team investigated the innovative role that wool can
play in a
Re-creation of
‘cocoon-home’ spaces.
‘Wool is a product that makes me think of
home’ was the starting point for the development of their project. The
working team described the concept of ‘home’ as being a personal refuge where
one feels safe, protected and disconnected from the clutter of the outside
world. Wool’s qualities for thermal
insulation, flame resistant, sound proofing, water resistant, light weight,
resilience and resistance to static electricity make it the ideal material to
work with. The working
team observed: ‘You play when you feel
safe so that the game becomes the symbol for feeling safe and being at home’.
Three scenarios, enabling people to construct a personal refuge that could be
anywhere they chose to make it were developed in the framework of the project.
These
innovative scenarios can inter mixed depending on the needs, offering solutions
for comfort and intimacy in the private or public domain, where le client
becomes the main actor, creating his own refuge space.
Home space Scenario:
- Lainamac’s ‘Wool-cocoon gîte’
project using wool in the home to provide wool bedding (mattress, pillow and
blanket), and to create an ambiance of quality wool (curtains, carpets, wall
hangings)
-Patrice Sebille’s handmade woolen
mattress, association with the home, pushing the boundaries of a mattress .
What can it be?
-LaboPulls Office Space project to isolate noise and insulate an open space,
converting it into a to 'cocoon'
 Nomadic culture Scenario
–Portable
culture by bringing one’s home with oneself, a sense of protection and
insulating through wool.
-Multi
functional wool wall, furniture forms, felt cubes, mobile mural-ball hangings
that filter the air or can be used in other ways
-Felt making: a
solitary experience or one to be shared with others where you can loose
yourself in a creative process that temporally insulates and isolates you from
the outside world
 
Memory Carpet Scenario is
-An innovative
home playground concept for connecting people by bringing into play ‘memory’ carpet tiles’ that can be
swapped, rolled up and assembled to create a sense of ’home’ or mood depending
on the moment.
Game scenarios
inspired by Memory Card games such as, Ludo and the general concept of play.
TECHNIQUES
Mattress making, felting, spinning, sewing, shibori
and dyeing, printing, carding, combing
INSPIRATION MASTER CLASS WORKSHOP
/// Part 1
Days 1 & 2 - Discovery
of wools of Europe -Marie-Therese Chaupin
Wools is environmentally friendly, its qualities are:
-A long lasting natural fibre, resistant to static
electricity, easy to clean, high resistance to tearing, hydrophilic, fire
resistant
-Thermal insulation, flame resistant,
sound proofing, water resistant, light weight and resilience and resistance to
static electricity.
-Wool’s complex cell structure provides a natural
chemistry that will clean the air and keep it purified, the absorption of
water vapor by wool,
/// Part 2
Trend books
and blog creation with Jeanne Goutelle
-A
Forecasters work methods to understand and analyze trends to a map of what
going on now in our societies.
-Brainstorming
technique to identify ideas and associated words, colours and materials to
communicate a project with visual elements.
-Establish a
creative process between inspiration, creativity and design.
Day 3 - Lainamac with Geraldine Couchy and Felting with
Krystel Chavigny
-Lainamacs research areas in the production
of industrial pre-felt as a base for artisan felt creations
-Material
required for a felting project is really basic, making it a technique
accessible to a wide public.
-Felting wool is a creative process that
enables you to express your feelings ‘I learned again how to survive insulating myself from all.’ (Barbara Grosskopf)
Day 4 - Patrice Sebille - Making a mattress.
-It’s possible
to create simple furniture and bedding with a mattress-making technique, using
basic tools and materials.
-Wool
mattresses are mold and mildew resistant, have the capability of regulating the
temperature, beneficial for health problems, injuries and other muscular
skeletal conditions
-You can make
mattresses in any size you want
Day 5 Day 4 – Ysabel de Maisonneuve Shibori
-Once the basic understanding of a technique has been acquired creative freedom can be undertaken
-The variety of colour and patterns that can be obtained from the
shibori technique can be directly applied to the objects developed in the
“Protection-Home’ project
Day 6 – Labopull with Alice Egler
& Sonja de Monchy
-Understanding
a work methodology to build a strong design concept and develop it into a
physical product.
-The designer
first must be able to behave as a child, observing things with astonishment and
playing with concepts and transformation (…). Finally the designer must be an
artist, adding his creative vision to all the previous work, enriching it with
a sensitive and sensory approach.
-Create a sense
of ‘Home’, a place where you feel
safe, somewhere you can relax, a place where you want to play
-Apply a design
methodology to develop innovative applications for wool.
-Create unique
interactive objects that have been inspired by games, nomadic cultures and the
protective qualities of wool
ADDED VALUE
Wool as a tool to connect people to their environment
through play and active participation
Innovative multi functional objects and materials
Protective
qualities of wool that induce a sense
of wellbeing
Walls that can be transformed into floor spaces
We are inspired by . . . GAME  HOME  DESIGN  ______________________________________________ FINDING US.... by Barbara Grosskopf 
"She said
purple, purple like the rain? - I asked. Or purple like the blue of her blog or
purple like the line ending her skirt under her knees?
The sun in
her face said yellow, and the silent sound came out of her trumpet.
Grey
circles on her shoulder and breast, and on her lips I also could read grey, but
she only wanted to play, and she chooses the dangerous game of the budu, and
broke the needle three times.
And all
that came in to me and I shacked it as a cocktail, to get drunk of thoughts and
feeling, and the fear made me invisible and mute.
Is it all
about protection? Is it insulation? From
the wool or the world? Who knows!!!
I borrowed
those colorS they gave me, and my hand just went on …. Reflected my inside with
me and with them.
I learned
again how to survive insulating myself from all.
I give you
this shelter where we don’t need to agree about, I put some light inside and
decorated it from the outside for you …
I don’t
expect you to understand I just want to give it to you, from the inside from my
coccon where I’m protected…."
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"Wool at home is an experience."
Geraldine from LAINAMAC, 10th of April 2013
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