“Hot
Tools” is the fruit of experiments with glass conducted by students in
the second year of their Master’s in Product Design led by designer
Ronan Bouroullec and glassblower Matteo Gonet.
“Hot Tools”
This
exhibition presents experiments and research carried out by students in
their second year of the Master’s in Product Design under the direction
of Alexis Georgacopoulos. “After a visit lasting a few hours to the
workshop of glassblower Matteo Gonet in Basle, students had to design
and produce tools and utensils, and invent scenarios that would create
an interesting effect in Matteo’s artisanal glass-making process. We had
five days to create a successful test palette,” explains designer Ronan
Bouroullec, who led this workshop. For Matteo Gonet, the workshop
sessions were intense and animated, but the challenge was won. “Tools
made by students themselves took the form of wooden moulds, stones,
glass and copper powder, leather… This approach is really very
interesting!”
Photo ECAL/Nicolas Genta