REFERENCES & INSPIRATION

Relevant work by artists and designers:

Softalism by Touche-Touche
"‘SOFTALISM', the first solo show of touche—touche. The exhibition’s title is a neologism that invites the invention of a concept that may emphasise the sensual relation we form with our sourroundings. touche—touche will make us explore the confines of one of the most sacred of places: the bedroom."

"The evasive practice of touche—touche, transports the viewer to an empire of dreamlike experience and tactile illusions.
Melting tiles, soft rocks, absurd gravity and abstract sciences are some of the matters they employ: simulated textures and artificiality give the viewer a highlighted awareness of touch and redirect objects into a mental image. Senses are played with and pragmatic interaction slowly resides to a secondary position.
Each imagined scene is a reinterpretation of existing cultural traditions. Manufactured in intricate detail, using contemporary materials and techniques, they create new fiction for daily scenarios. Their environments are a free fall in tangible reality."

Elissa Lacoste - Body sculptures
Sculptures and spatial objects, with textures and colours that resemble skin and bodies.

Pleun Van Dijk - Objects of Desire

"Objects more often seem to exhibit human traits, not only in terms of their physical appearance but also in the way they behave and interfere in our daily activities. Perfume bottles are designed with the female figure in mind, Siri answers our questions with a human voice and some offices have already replaced their receptionists with social humanoid robots. "

http://www.pleunvandijk.com/objects-of-desire-thesis

Anna Aagaard Jensen - Lady Chairs

A discussion of gender behaviou and politics in daily life; Jensen uses the chair as a conversation starter about man-spreading, and women always having to be as small as possible, when sitting down, but also in the media and professional life. The chairs depict bodies in abstract forms, and also touch upon the topic of diversity.

Artificial Gut Feeling - Anna Zett

Short Cuts - Jonas Lutz

"At large, the designer tends to be drawn to creating utilitarian products, while he truly enjoys experimenting with purely sculptural forms too. In this project Jonas decided not to discriminate between the free and the applied shapes in order to let the process be unconstrained.

A less anticipated but very rewarding outcome in this project was the intimacy felt with the wood when working with the larger segments as it poked more immediate and respectful considerations of the life of the individual tree, than when working with planks or sheets."

https://jonaslutz.com/furniture/short-cuts/

Literary references 15.11.

The Orange In my Stomach by Marijke Annema
- The thesis project of designer Marijke Annema. "Marijke Annema is a designer who examines the relation between people and their everyday environment."

Her thesis is about how we as humans form the space around us, and how it shapes Marijke as a designer and a thinker.

--> Semiotics In Architecture by Martin Van Krampen
published in Design Issues: Vol. V, Number 2 Spring 1989

--> The Architecture of Happiness by Alain de Bottom

Eros and Pathos: Shades of Love and Suffering by Aldo Carotenuto, 1989
page 51, chapter 5