The collective ‘byOTHERDESIGNERS’ invited a group of designers to be part of a project based on the game ‘Consequences', also called the 'Exquisite Corpse', made popular by the surrealists,
During the course of one month, these designers played a creative game, which resulted in a series of lighted objects.
Rules of the game:
The creation process has three parts; Tail, body and head, with one designer for each part.
The first part is created, concealed in cardboard, leaving one part exposed as a clue and continuation point and passed to the next designer. The next designer repeats this step and passes it to the last who finishes the object and conceals the final part.
No designer in the chain has seen the preceding part and no one has seen the object as a whole until the grand unveiling at the exhibition date or launch party.
The beauty in the 'DESIGN consequences' process is that everyone has the same control and power over the object. No one and everyone is the decision maker, resulting in a stimulating balance between rawness and fine consideration in each object. The project is an experiment for introducing many designers to each other for future collaborations of all kinds.
In the case of the lighted objects, the common theme was a cable running through the object to power the bulb.
The first nine objects were created by 13 designers, Pierric Verger, Marc Trotereau, Merel Karhof, Benjamin Faure, Pierre Guillaume Ospina, Valentin Vodev, Hélène Degott, Yohav Reches, Claire Ferreira, Marc Sapetti, Dominic Hargreaves, Stéphane Gouraud and Vahakn Matossian.
They were launched and exhibited at Hackney Wicked Art Festival, 30th - 31st August 2010. The exhibition space initially contained the nine surreal boxed objects which were opened one-by-one in an informal performance with music written by The User Interface.
The next series of objects is under way and exhibition dates will be revealed in September.
We welcome new designers, creators and collaborators. Get in touch. Images and information can be found on our blog.
Text by Vahakn Matossian
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