Materials & textiles workshop (family!)
Sunday 28 Jul 2019 from 1pm to 2:30pm
Saturday 24 Aug 2019 from 1pm to 2:30pm
Saturday 31 Aug 2019 from 1pm to 2:30pm
Sunday 01 Sep 2019 from 1pm to 2:30pm
During the summer, the cultural mediators offer workshops for children aged 6 to 12, accompanied by their parents.
Apprehend the development of a designed and woven object as part of the exhibition Hella Jongerius Interlace, a textile research!
Weaving armor
With Claire Der Hovannessian, cultural mediator
Discover the "weave armor" and understand the intertwining of warp threads and weft threads that make up textiles.
Saturday, August 24th
Woven webbing bag
With Léa Grandi, cultural mediator
Design and make your bag in colorful straps. Assemble your boss which will be closed and sewn on a sewing machine!
Saturday, August 31st
Materials-Book
With Cécile Vignau, cultural mediator
Discover, touch, manipulate a multitude of materials (textile, paper, cork, cardboard ...). Each of these materials has its own characteristics that you can test and apprehend: matte, smooth, shiny, rough, crumpled, wavy, cold, hot ... You can then compose your own book with these materials, connect it and then take it away!
Sunday, September 1st
Cloth
With Marilou Carvati, cultural mediator
Participate in a multi-hand workshop where rags turn into woven creation. Bring one or two old t-shirts and become the weavers of the Hella Jongerius exhibition at Lafayette Anticipations!
For children from 6 to 12 years old.
Single price: 5€ per child (free for parents)
After graduating from Eindhoven Design Academy in 1993, she founded the Jongeriuslab studio, where she has pursued independent projects and also created products for major clients, including Maharam (New York), KLM, Kvadrat rugs and Royal Tichelaar Makkum (Netherlands), Ikea (Sweden) and Vitra (Basel).
She has been the Art Director for colours and materials at Vitra for many years. Hella Jongerius leads on the same front fundamental research and industrial developments. A little more than two years ago, she wrote with Louise Schouwenberg a manifesto entitled Beyond the New which conspired frenetic desire for novelty in production, highlighting the need for common reference to fragile know-how, in ethical and societal considerations. This text but also the entire career of Hella Jongerius has a considerable influence on younger generations of creators.
Works by Hella Jongerius have been shown at museums and galleries such as Lafayette Anticipations, Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum and MoMA (New York), Design Museum and Victoria & Albert Museum (London), Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen (Rotterdam), Moss Gallery (New York) and Galerie kreo (Paris). In 2017 Hella Jongerius was awarded the Sikkens Prize.