Improvised Cooperation

Domaine de Boisbuchet (Lessac, France), 2014 | Furniture
Workshop participants: John Chih-Chung Lin, I-Hsiang Chen, Eum Yoon-na, Chia-Yi Chen, Ro-Yu Hsu, Anton Alvarez (Leading tutor)
Responsible for Furniture Design, Craft Design, Materials Research
Photo Credit: Carlo Cialli, John Chih-Chung Lin

About Workshop

Every year, Boisbuchet invites the most inspiring architects & designers from all over the world, to give a week-long workshop at the Domaine de Boisbuchet in South-West France. Every tutor takes into account the inspiring natural environment, and crafts a theme for participants to build upon. Every single workshop is a unique hands-on experience, with the guarantee of learning by doing with materials and tools provided by Boisbuchet. Throughout the week, participants get insight into the process & techniques of top designers and have the opportunity to connect with like-minded, passionate people. Improvised Cooperation is a work-shop about material research and furniture building. Intuitive reactions to simple materials and given circumstances shall lead to some unpredictable results.

The team’s quick decisions will provoke new ideas that combine your accumulated knowledge and skills from the past in response to the stimulus of feelings and the environment. The effect might be a realization of unexpected objects as well as the development of new thinking patterns. Basic materials shall be combined inventively according to their qualification for each construction, which then other group members continue with different materials. (source: www.antonalvarez.com)