How can design contribute to the development of both material and spiritual wellbeing and sustainability?
For example, the relation between materialistic and spiritual fulfillment, physical and mental practices and skills, ownership and access, or between sustainability and wealth?
TEAM
Lia Larrea
Günther Mausz
CONTEXT
MA Fashion & Technology
Fashion Design MA 3
2024
PROFESSORS
Karin Krapfenbauer
Sander Hofstee
Ute Ploier
University of Arts Linz, Institute of Space and Design, Linz, Austria
In a digitally driven world, Pulmonaut explores breathing as a technology and universal language of connection. Merging scientific glassblowing in a contemporary fashion context, flexible glass sculptures visualize the spiritual essence of mindful breathing and movement. Flowing with fire while feeling through breath, glass embodies a symphony of surgical craftsmanship. Co-created with master craftsman Günther Mausz, this project highlights the power of multidisciplinary collaboration, amplifying craftsmanship as an art of our future and breathing as a technology of our present.