June 25–August 26, 2023
Domaine de Boisbuchet—an international research centre for design and architecture—announces the Summer Workshop Programme 2023, inviting professionals and students from all areas of applied arts to join.
“Grow with the Flow” is this year’s motto to fuel experimentation, discussion and celebration with forward-thinking creatives joining us from all over the world. This summer, Boisbuchet is putting trees at the centre of its projects—not only as a source of material and energy but at least as much as a source of knowledge and inspiration. But, the workshops are about much more than woods, trees and forests. Bio-inclusive design will be about exploring a diversity of materials, using craft traditions and skills, looking for alternative energy production, creating narratives of the cultures of body and food, and encompassing everyday objects as well as architecture and landscape or human behaviour.
Founded in 1986, Boisbuchet has a unique campus with an architectural park of historic and contemporary buildings on 150 hectares of protected nature in southwest France. Our workshops, exhibitions, and events as well as a design collection and library serve professional guests and visitors from the neighbouring and global community alike.
The workshops calendar listing of all topics and tutors appears here below.
Be part of our community this summer!
Please visit our website for detailed information and the registration form, or email us at workshops [at] boisbuchet.org
Places are limited.
Early-bird registration deadline: April 30
June 25–July 1
Lucas Muñoz Muñoz (Spain): No Man is an Island—installation, recycling, water
Marc Morro (Spain): Tools to Start, Keep and Use the Fire—fire, products, tools
July 2–8
form Magazine (Germany): form follows content—Creating a design magazine in one week—magazine, publication, storytelling
Victoria Yakusha (Ukraine): Ztista—Exploring Ukrainian Craft—craft, organic, products
July 9–15
Marjan van Aubel (Netherlands): Designing with the Sun—lighting, renewable, energy
Marco Sammicheli (Italy): Exhibition Makers—curating, exhibition, research
July 17–23
Bertjan Pot (Netherlands): Air-Play—air, artifacts, experimentation
Lex Pott (Netherlands) + Chris Kabel (Netherlands): The Oak—material experimentation, products, wood
Julia Lohman (UK) + Violaine Buet (France): The Department of Seaweed—Algae encounters—algae, bio-materials, sustainability
July 23–29
Miriam Josi and Stella Lee Prowse (Aléa) (France): Mycelium—Nothing really matters—bio-materials, mycelium, sustainability
Wataru Kumano (Japan): Wood Inside and Outside—Japanese carpentry, products, wood
Objects of Common Interest (US/Greece): A Contemplation Park—installation, self-discovery, spaces
July 30–August 5
The Rodina (Netherlands): Garden of Encounters—botany, graphics, signage
Samy Rio (France): Tools for Food: Hard Edge + Warm Grip—craft, products, tools
Olimpia Zagnoli (Italy): The Grand Outdoors Illustration—illustration, colors
August 6–13
Wagner Kreusch (Brazil): It Comes, It Goes Away—Floral ephemera—installation, flowers, landscape
Sam Chermayeff (Germany): Ovens—architecture, body, outdoors
August 13–19
TAKK Architecture (Spain): Animal Architectures—architecture, shelters, scarcity
David Angeli + AMDL CIRCLE (Italy): Leaveitbe—Untouchable circles—architecture, installation, landscape
Caro Diario (France): Déjeuner sûr l’herbe—food, staging
August 20–26
Wendy Andreu (France): Beautiful Waste—products, textiles, upcycling
CARA \ DAVIDE (Italy): Crooked Lines—furniture, nature, observation
Carla Fernández (Mexico): My Wonderful Poncho—clothing, fashion, vernacular
Ongoing projects
Residency Programme 2023
Boisbuchet welcomes artists, writers, architects, designers, filmmakers, musicians, and researchers, among many other creatives, to develop, alone or with collaborators, their own projects (10 places available). Residencies will start from May 15 onwards.
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