Description
As humans we have the power to construct objects for ourselves. We are able to twist the matter into any shape we like, and we believe to be in total control of our creations, that we are the masters of the inanimate world around us. And yet the static world is shaping us just as much as we are shaping it. Human Mould aims to dive fully into that relation. In this project, the process of making is based on the human body as the mould of its own creation. The construction of the object is slow; the human slowly being casted with the chair he is sitting on. By doing so, he becomes the object before even building it. We enter the world of the static in order to build the static. Three actors take place in the process of creation: the chair, the human sitting, and the constructor. Each shaping in their own way the final outcome. So who was first? The chair, the human who built it, or the human who sat in it? All in all, Human Mould initiates an honest circle of creation in which the body feeds the object as much as the object feeds the body. It aims to generate new shapes through a performative design process in which the action of making is as important as the outcome. It leaves us with an object for which the ownership of the shape is blurry, a self-generated chair resulting from a specific moment and interaction between various actors rather than a singular designer.
