Seen at DDW: Make a Forest/ Raw Color & MKGK
Make a Forest is a global, collaborative art and design project that brings sustainable awareness and creativity together in a way never seen before. The project is based on the idea that besides their cultural, natural and symbolic value, forests have been an inspiration to artists and designers since decades. The project has been taken up by several initiatives around the globe, among others in Eindhoven. MU has invited a few designers and artists to create and present their artificial trees as a part of their participation in Make a Forest. During Dutch Design Week (DDW) the Wild-S pavilion is transformed into the Make a Forest headquarters. MU has put together a special program and asked designers and artists to create and present artificial trees for the temporary forest at Strijp-S.
For Raw Color and studio Maarten Kolk & Guus Kusters trees are anything but static. They ever changing life forms that determine how we experience light, shade, wind and changes of the seasons. This observation, is translated to “illusions” of trees in different materials, that represent the life, dynamics and transformation of trees.
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