Hasta La Ideas

Like many of their fellow student exhibitors at Milan’s Ventura Lambrate district (and elsewhere, the eight Master of Interior Architecture & Retail Design candidates at Rotterdam’s Piet Zwaart Institute made a strong showing. The exhibition, entitled “FABRIKAAT,” marked the culmination of an intensive three-month design studio that took the garden as a broad theme for exploring traditional technique and craft.

FABRIKAAT is an exhibition at Ventura Lambrate 2012 investigating the re-emerging role of the garden through a “research through making” approach to design and craft. In a digitally saturated world, this body of work celebrates and promotes research, ideas and the nuances of making by hand.

Program Director Alex Suarez noted that, even as each of the four student pairs focused on one of the broad categories of fabrication methods—molding, knitting/weaving, folding/bending and cutting/scoring—each team was encouraged to explore the historical significance and evolution of these through experimentation.

Hence, the extensive “making-of” component to the exhibition, including various iterations of the bricks and woven textiles in particular, as well as a video accompaniment for each project, highlighting the process as much as the final product, if not more so.

Hell, even the promo clip of the logo is nicely executed:

Check out all of the videos (which have no audio as far as I can tell) and descriptions in one place after the jump, plus many more photos on the project pages on the Fabrikaat microsite.

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