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in your neighbourhood

The importance of small producers in our-days economy was the discussion subject in the course „Small producers in your neighbourhood“, with special focus on the region Nordrhein Westfalen, Germany. After certain input, I decided to put me in the skin of a small producer and experimented to commercialise my own product during the anual Design Parcours Ehrenfeld/ Passage 2012 - Interior Design Week in Cologne. The product developed was a bed which the design was based mainly on the catabolism and anabolism notions. That means, the bed can "grow and shrink", like a metabolism. The structure was also inspired in three ideas: sustainable/qualitative, flexible/adaptable, simple/airy. The goal was not to design the most innovative bed, instead a sustainable and qualitative product. The exhibition embraced the bed concept and accordingly transmit the "metabolic" idea. Here the spacial metaphor was achieved through a light and shadows game, that originated a subtle and constant ambience change under the bed structure. Also the reflexion of the bed emphasized this idea. At the same time, the room should achieve a cosy emotion, but not a literal one like the recreation of a sleeping room, rather through the presence of bed elements like pillows, sheets, covers and sleeping masks.