Below are some examples of the contrasts, apparent contradictions and paradoxes that triggers our curiosity and sense of explorations, experimentation and research:
★ Traditional craft versus high tech
Modern technology often have a high tech and alienating feeling to it. High tech becomes functional gadgets that we depend on but at the same time are detached from. By combining traditional know ho
w and a codified production processes with uncharted technologies and complex materials we try to emphasize familiarity, luxury and comfort. We thereby try to avoid gadgets in favor of tangible smooth
technology.
★ Art versus design
Our work lies within the field of art and design. We have a very solution-oriented design approach but at the same time the art scene is an inspiration as well as a frame work. Weather our work is art or
design is not really important - what is important is use, storytelling and contradictions.
★ Digitality versus materiality
By merging ubiquitous technology based on sensor technology and computing with the sensual properties of traditional materials gives qualities of slowness and tangibility to the digital and changeability and interaction into the material. Thereby we try to make a continuum between the digital and the analogue in order to avoid the traditional bipolarity between the two. This "mix" of digital and physical materials results in unique hybrid material on its own right, which epitomizes
todays Zeitgeist.
★ Sustainability versus hedonism
We believe that it is possible to create sustainable design without changing the behavior of the user or compromise their quality of life. Beauty, sensuality and pleasurable experiences are not excluding
sustainability and ethical responsibility. Social, environmental and ethics can by hot, crazy and sensual.
