Building Blocks

With its simplicity and abstract form, a set of wooden building blocks lets us construct anything. It could be a wooden hut or a glass clad modernist building, and in the process the material becomes metaphysical.

Whether the blocks… shall be considered wood or glass is a point that cannot be determined by either you or me.

Glass building blocks, partially hand painted to resemble wood.

Study O Portable, founded by Bernadette Deddens [NL] and Tetsuo Mukai [JP], is a research based practice that makes objects about the designed environment, and our relationship to the cultural landscape that enables it, with a particular interest in the transitional nature of our ideas towards objects. The work often catalogues various, and sometimes disparate notions associated with certain ideas and objects, and proposes other potential for the mundane and ordinary. The practice maintains a speculative approach to the definition of designing, and is intrigued by different modes of thinking related to things and objects in general.

Since 2009, the work of Study O Portable has been presented internationally at various occasions and places such as Design Miami (Miami Beach, Basel), London Design Festival (London), Design Parade (Hyeres), Gallery FUMI (London, Porto Cervo), Caroline van Hoek (Brussels, Knokke), Phillips de Pury & Company (London, New York), Dutch Design Week (Eindhoven), Pavilion of Art and Design (Paris, London) among others.

As Workshop For Potential Design, they initiate and organise exhibitions related to designed conditions.

(Source: http://www.studyoportable.com/about/)

• http://studyoportable.com/projects/Build...
• http://www.workshopforpotentialdesign.co...