Project
ASSEMBLING
-To use wool as a lifeline to encourage community
growth and participation-
Project
ASSEMBLING
-To use wool as a lifeline to encourage community
growth and participation-
WORKTEAM
Adele Orcajada, Diedre Duffy, Sinead Kane
KEYWORDS:
Community, Therapy, Protection, Superfibre,
Waterproof and Biodegradable
WHAT IS THE PROJECT ABOUT?
« Assembling » is an innovative
project aimed at reuniting individuals in a society by encouraging them to
participate in group projects such as: creating communal gardens, building
shelters or making accessories. It proposes that the act of recycling wasted
wool becomes a federating action that builds a respect in the community for textile crafts and woolen fleece and
revaluates the inventive roles these can play. Inspired by textures in felt and
nature, « Assembling » proposes three design projects that transform
wool into a 'super-fiber', bringing people together through an innovative use of wool within the
community.
Bag for life project
Involves
reuniting people through felt making in community workshops to produce
recycled bags, mixing wool with natural fibers and plastic.
Safe space
Wool, a
metaphor for home.
A source of Life
The
biodegradable quality of carded and combed wool applied as a fiber membrane
and compost in garden beds and nomad gardening, replacing plastic pots and
seedling trays with recycled plastic and woolen, portable garden bags
TECHNIQUES:
Felting, spinning, knitting, crochet and carding wool
PROJECT OBJECTIVES:
We want to:
INSPIRATIONS MASTER CLASS WORKSHOPS:
Days 1 & 2
-
Day 3 - Lainamac & Felting
Day 4 - Patrice Sebille & making a mattress.
ADDED VALUE:
-Wool as a tool to connect people
through group projects
1.
References:
actors:
Patrick Nadeau:http://www.patricknadeau.com
Bouroulec Brothers> http://www.dezeen.com
Claudy Jongsta : http://www.claudyjongstra.com
Lainamac: http://www.histoiredeslaines.fr
Campaign
for wool:http://www.campaignforwool.org
Gertrude Jeckyl
partners:
Feutres Depland-prefelter
Haworths Scouring Company
Horticultures
Various experts in craft, dye, gardening and landscape
Categories by:
Color
This can be used for:
Vertical gardens/ Stacked gardens/Tubular
gardens in:
-office space(sound insulation and purifying air)
Artistic applications (combining the
plants that grow with the felt textures)
Carpet/garden
KEYWORDS:
Community, Therapy, Protection, Superfibre,
Waterproof and Biodegradable
WHAT IS THE PROJECT ABOUT?
« Assembling » is an innovative
project aimed at reuniting individuals in a society by encouraging them to
participate in group projects such as: creating communal gardens, building
shelters or making accessories. It proposes that the act of recycling wasted
wool becomes a federating action that builds a respect in the community for textile crafts and woolen fleece and
revaluates the inventive roles these can play. Inspired by textures in felt and
nature, « Assembling » proposes three design projects that transform
wool into a 'super-fiber', bringing people together through an innovative use of wool within the
community.
Bag for life project
|
Involves
reuniting people through felt making in community workshops to produce
recycled bags, mixing wool with natural fibers and plastic.
|
Safe space
|
Wool, a
metaphor for home.
Creating
community shelters, taking advantage of the waterproof, insulation and
temperature control properties of wool, allowing people to construct
temporary shelters using felt making, an easily adaptable technique requiring
little or no tools.
|
A source of Life
|
The
biodegradable quality of carded and combed wool applied as a fiber membrane
and compost in garden beds and nomad gardening, replacing plastic pots and
seedling trays with recycled plastic and woolen, portable garden bags
|
TECHNIQUES:
Felting, spinning, knitting, crochet and carding wool
PROJECT OBJECTIVES:
We want to:
- Create projects where wool can bring people to
together. Kindle excitement and enthusiasm within the community by designing
projects that make people aware of the innovative role and a source of inspiration that wool, fleece and textile crafts can play.
- Recycle
un-used wool
- Connect the farmers to the users
- Apply wools biodegradable quality to
gardening
- To make wool become a style of life
INSPIRATIONS MASTER CLASS WORKSHOPS:
Days 1 & 2
-
/// Part 1
Discovery of wools of Europe -Marie-Therese Chaupin
Diverse qualities of wool:
Thermal insulation, wool’s complex cell structure that
provides a natural chemistry that will clean the air and keep it
purified, the absorption of water vapor by wool,
A natural biodegradable and environment friendly
resource.
A traditional Turkish wooden spindle shown to us by
Marie-Therese
Inventive uses for the three basic component fibers
(Wool, Hair and Kemp)
/// Part 2 Trend books and blog creation with Jeanne Goutelle
Trend books,
the presentation of a creative process between inspiration, creativity and
design.
-Learning the
role that Trend Forecasters play by establishing a map of what’s going on now
in our societies in all the production sectors of the market.
-Jeanne’s research process in determining
a trend by linking an idea with words, colours and materials.
-Shaping ideas
to become attractive, practical and communicate with visual elements.
-Using a
Brainstorming process to identify the ideas
-Making the
blog – organizing and laying down the first pages of the blog
Day 3 - Lainamac & Felting
Felt making, spinning and knitting as a group activity
Researching under-exploited processes (felt and woven
interiors decoration) to find new applications and markets.
Research areas in the production of industrial
pre-felt as a base for artisanal felt creation
The material required for a felting project is really
basic, just a few simple, cheap tools that make this technique accessible to a
wide public.
Day 4 - Patrice Sebille & making a mattress.
Creating furniture and bedding with basic tools and
materials
Being made aware of the amount of fleece that is
destroyed due to the high cost for its transformation and reflecting on ways to
reclaim and recycle the discarded wool.
ADDED VALUE:
-Wool as a tool to connect people
through group projects
-Wool as nourishment for growth in
urban agriculture.
- Recycled wool employed as an
innovative reclaimed material
1.
References:
actors:
Patrick Nadeau:http://www.patricknadeau.com
Bouroulec Brothers> http://www.dezeen.com
Claudy Jongsta : http://www.claudyjongstra.com
Lainamac: http://www.histoiredeslaines.fr
Campaign for wool:http://www.campaignforwool.org
Gertrude Jeckyl
Patrick Nadeau:http://www.patricknadeau.com
Bouroulec Brothers> http://www.dezeen.com
Claudy Jongsta : http://www.claudyjongstra.com
Lainamac: http://www.histoiredeslaines.fr
Campaign for wool:http://www.campaignforwool.org
Gertrude Jeckyl
partners:
Feutres Depland-prefelter
Haworths Scouring Company
Horticultures
Various experts in craft, dye, gardening and landscape
Feutres Depland-prefelter
Haworths Scouring Company
Horticultures
Various experts in craft, dye, gardening and landscape
Categories by:
Color
Vegetable/herb/food
Dry weather/humid
Inside/outside
Dyeing/medicinal
Shape
This can be used for:
Vertical gardens/ Stacked gardens/Tubular
gardens in:
-office space(sound insulation and purifying air)
-communal spaces:roundabouts, parks etc
-guerilla gardening
-urban gardens (for crafters, slow food,
medicinal, laboratory…)
-limited space
Artistic applications (combining the
plants that grow with the felt textures)
Carpet/garden
Sculptures: Puppy (Guggenheim Bilbao)
Artistic landscape: Gertrude Jekyll
