INDIVIDUAL /
How can design account for the needs of the individual and the community?
For example, the consideration for singular voices or for aggregated agency, the focus on the self or the group, the pursuit of one's own interests while respecting common goods, the importance of conviviality, the opportunities of doing alone or doing together?
Echoes of Us
Upcycled Pieces for Self-Expression and Collaboration in Care
TEAM
Thomas Bertrand
Zoé Fredriksen
CONTEXT
BA Création d’Intérieurs
Furniture Design / Furniture and Objects Design
2024/2025
PROFESSORS
Jérémy Husquin
Maxence Matthieu
ESA Saint-Luc Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium
Western Europe has three times the global average of children in care, and many of them cannot choose their belongings. Echoes of Us involves 6 upcycled wooden pieces that children can customize and assemble into a transportable box, reflecting their individuality. The pieces can also be reconfigured into a shared, abstract structure, promoting creativity and collaboration. Personal and collective elements are interconnected, encouraging both self-expression as well as the act of coming together as a community.
