Dezeen School Shows: a textile collection designed to promote emotional wellbeing is among the projects from the Lucerne School of Design, Film and Art.
Also featured is a project that uses weaving techniques to explore community connection and a fabric collection for car interiors, which provides a sustainable alternative to fossil-based options.
Lucerne School of Design, Film and Art
Institution: Lucerne School of Design, Film and Art
Course: Bachelor in Textile Design
Tutors: Marion Becella, Franziska Born, Rfael Kouto, Lilia Glanzmann, Stéphanie Bächler, Doris Kurzmeyer, Christa Michel, Daniela Zimmermann, Jonas Leysieffer, Mònica Gaspar and Laura Schwyter
School statement:
"Our world is changing and textile designers are ideally equipped to face the challenges. With colour, pattern, functionality and sensuality as our guide, we constantly reinvent the realm of fibres, fabrics and surfaces.
"By merging materials and disciplines, we leverage our hybrid expertise to create forward-thinking ideas and aesthetic objects for various fields.
"Fashion, architecture, theatre, product design, fine arts, interior architecture and research all benefit from our craftsmanship.
"We actively apply traditional skills in harmony with the digital realm, reshaping reality and making a tangible impact as grassroots experts in a transforming world."
Weaving Conversations by Alva Tosca Jeker
"Set against the background of our digital, fast-moving society, Weaving Conversations experiments with textile design as a practice of social connectedness.
"People gather in different places in order to weave together, without having any prior expertise or a fixed goal.
"A deliberately low-threshold access to weaving techniques creates an open social space for informal exchanges and collective experiences.
"Combining individual threads is a symbol for the emergence of collective structures. The workpieces and processes form a digital, accessible and growing archive that visualises community as fabric that is being continuously woven.
"Weaving Conversations is an invitation to think about new forms of future togetherness and to actively shape social spaces."
Student: Alva Tosca Jeker
Tutors: Marion Becella and Jonas Leysieffer
Email: alva.jeker[at]gmail.com
EntFalten by Anja Rüssli
"The work explores the fold as a movable spatial structure and investigates the design scope of knitted surfaces when combined with pleating.
"The starting point is knitted textiles that are permanently transformed into three-dimensional structures through the technique of pleating.
"The textile collection entFalten (unFolding) provides an insight into the experimental dialogue with material, form and colour.
"Colour is deliberately applied in such a way that it adopts the form of the folds in order to reinforce the three-dimensional effect of the textiles."
Student: Anja Rüssli
Tutors: Christa Michel and Jonas Leysieffer
Email: anja.ruessli[at]gmail.com
Weavings in Motion Linen Fabric for Interior Coverings in Cars by Bettina Buser
"The fabric collection was developed for composite components in car interiors, supplementing the visual design of the atmosphere inside the vehicle.
"Together with the industry partner Bcomp, it was possible to directly test the technical requirements of the material and the fabric structure in terms of industrial production.
"At the same time, the three parts of the collection: Radical Sustainability, Colours with Drive and Atelier Voiture are aimed towards different target groups.
"The high durability and lightweight nature of flax fibre make linen an ideal alternative to the fossil-based materials that have been deployed up until now. The goal is to create a textile design that can contribute to a more sustainable future."
Student: Bettina Buser
Tutors: Marion Becella and Jonas Leysieffer
Email: bettina.buser[at]hotmail.com
Collective Womb by Joya Gisèle Blarer
"Grieving womanhood. Hidden anger. Collective remembrance.
"Collective Womb deals with female figures from Swiss legends and the patriarchal images that they continue to embody up to the present day.
"Using costume design and film, the project creates a feminist antithesis to these tales. Repressed voices, monstrously rendered female figures and forgotten stories are newly interpreted in textile.
"The outfits are adapted using pieces from folk costumes, positioning Swiss folk traditions in a new context and celebrating their beauty."
Student: Joya Gisèle Blarer
Tutors: Franziska Born and Jonas Leysieffer
Email: lilienne.gutknecht[at]gmail.com
Un Cocon Pour La Soie by Chloé Maître
"Touched for an instant and then just as quickly forgotten.
"In the past, meaning was rooted in expectation, in the attentive eye. Un cocon pour la soie (A Cocoon for Silk) is a visual manifestation of a slower and more sensitive interaction with textiles in which quality emerges from the knowledge, care and time we dedicate to the process of making.
"Silk is particularly well-suited in this respect: it is one of the most sought-after textile materials in history. It not only reflects light, it also transforms and materialises it through its textile structure.
"The work explores the interplay between light, colour, surface and perception."
Student: Chloé Maître
Tutors: Franziska Born and Jonas Leysieffer
Email: chloe.maitre[at]hotmail.ch
Everchanging Matter by Myra Theresa Hauser
"The project examines change in material, social and bodily contexts.
"The starting point consists of traditional Swiss folk costumes, for which there is no longer use. This is due to a lack of popularity, or visible wear and tear.
"Some of the items in my collection have been taken out of their historical context and given a new connection. From this confrontation with Swiss craftsmanship and the traces embedded in the material, several outfits emerged that shift between tradition, body and change.
"The core of this design strategy consists of questions surrounding the stories that textiles carry within themselves and how femininity unfolds within them as a lived and individual experience."
Student: Myra Theresa Hauser
Tutors: Daniela Zimmermann and Jonas Leysieffer
Email: myra03[at]gmx.ch
Precious Fragments by Sarahi Singh
"Infinite potential lies within the discarded objects and materials that surround us. We live in a world where materials are abundant and where current social and environmental challenges invite us to rethink our production systems.
"I asked myself: how can we reconcile our criteria of value with the use of everyday materials, while creating an attractive design guided by the material?
"A research collection of samples intended for haute couture was created by combining artisanal craftsmanship with unconventional materials.
"The aim is to reveal the aesthetic potential and sensory qualities of these materials through ancestral techniques. Alongside this collection, an archive documents the discoveries made through the exploration of the sourced materials."
Student: Sarahi Singh
Tutors: Daniela Zimmerman and Jonas Leysieffer
Email: sarahi.singh[at]hotmail.com
Fingerspitzengefühl by Nina Ronja Bundi
"We live in a world that tends to analyse emotions instead of to feel them, therefore these textile objects are an invitation to pause and feel. The objects are made of natural fibres and have been dyed using only plant-based colours.
"Three types of object form an open set. The carpet forms a room within a room, a place for emotional awareness. The shapeable textile object allows the user to express how their own body feels, without using words. Small everyday objects unite opposites, such as warm-cold or soft-hard, and provide a bodily anchor when out and about.
"All three are reminders: feeling doesn"t require a reason, simply a moment.
"The project relates to the UN's Sustainable Development Goal 3 – to promote good health and wellbeing – with a focus on emotional wellbeing and the process of inner awareness."
Student: Nina Ronja Bundi
Tutors: Franziska Born and Jonas Leysieffer
Email: info[at]ninabundi.ch
Partnership content
This school show is a partnership between Dezeen and Lucerne School of Design, Film and Art and . Find out more about Dezeen partnership content here.