10 DESIGNERS - CONTEST
Rêveils, Marc Sarrazin
© Claire Lavabre
10 DESIGNERS - CONTEST
Rêveils, Marc Sarrazin
© Claire Lavabre
10 DESIGNERS - CONTEST
Rêveils, Marc Sarrazin
© Claire Lavabre
10 YOUNG DESIGNERS
design parade 7
Marc Sarrazin
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PRIZE OF THE PUBLIC
Rêveils
“To live is to pass from one space to another, while doing your very best not to bump yourself.” G. Perec
Marc Sarrazin envisions design as a practice which is not limited to the conception of shapes, but which must also take into account our relationship with objects. For him, the term “functional” no longer only signifies “adapted to a purpose”. Instead, it may also be understood and applied to an order, or a wider system, which integrates language, knowledge, etc... The designer believes that the traditional functions applied to the objects which surround us, are like potential articulations, between different universes. Based upon the development of the cognitive sciences, the advent of new technologies, and putting great emphasis on the irrational – counterpart to the rational – , he is looking for transitions which may allow him to penetrate into our everyday lives, in unexpected ways.
For example, take an archetypal object such as: an alarm clock. Now, let us consider its field of action: sleep, that is to say the quintessential transitory space. The designer thus offers three variations, each devoted to one of the three major stages of this perpetual and vital cycle: falling asleep, deep sleep, and awakening.
The first is an invitation to abandon oneself to a dreamlike world through words: as a temporary narrator, the alarm clock sinks, little by little, with the subject into a deep sleep... The second questions the status of the object itself, as the need for temporality is no longer in play: the digital display decays, each number living out its own life: ‘whilst the cat’s away, the mice will play’. Finally, like an auditory blotting paper, the third captures and records the sounds of its environment in order to repeat them the following morning as a kind of mix, a sort of auditory reminiscence of our previous day.
Rêveils
“To live is to pass from one space to another, while doing your very best not to bump yourself.” G. Perec
Marc Sarrazin envisions design as a practice which is not limited to the conception of shapes, but which must also take into account our relationship with objects. For him, the term “functional” no longer only signifies “adapted to a purpose”. Instead, it may also be understood and applied to an order, or a wider system, which integrates language, knowledge, etc... The designer believes that the traditional functions applied to the objects which surround us, are like potential articulations, between different universes. Based upon the development of the cognitive sciences, the advent of new technologies, and putting great emphasis on the irrational – counterpart to the rational – , he is looking for transitions which may allow him to penetrate into our everyday lives, in unexpected ways.
For example, take an archetypal object such as: an alarm clock. Now, let us consider its field of action: sleep, that is to say the quintessential transitory space. The designer thus offers three variations, each devoted to one of the three major stages of this perpetual and vital cycle: falling asleep, deep sleep, and awakening.
The first is an invitation to abandon oneself to a dreamlike world through words: as a temporary narrator, the alarm clock sinks, little by little, with the subject into a deep sleep... The second questions the status of the object itself, as the need for temporality is no longer in play: the digital display decays, each number living out its own life: ‘whilst the cat’s away, the mice will play’. Finally, like an auditory blotting paper, the third captures and records the sounds of its environment in order to repeat them the following morning as a kind of mix, a sort of auditory reminiscence of our previous day.