Plakat-feel home.indd

The title of the semester project at the FHWS Faculty of Design in the winter 2016/17 is "feel home or portable shelter". Body covers in life size, which explore and illustrate wearable protection and secureness, were presented in a performance and in a common catalogue.

Kursdokumentation_Umschlag.indd

The title of the semester project at the FHWS Faculty of Design in the winter semester 2016/17 is "feel home or portable shelter" and can be understood as an invitation to the other person or as an expression of a certain condition. We have investigated how a portable space could be, which surrounds me and gives me a feeling of being safe on the move and in new places. What can a cocoon for city nomads look like? Like a shelter that makes us independent of place, time and weather conditions.

Involuntarily or by our own choice we are not always where we are at home, we want to be independent and mobile, we nomadise. Some travel back and forth between several locations, others are in search of a new home. Our clothing can enclose us like an architecture and offer us secureness, and it is wearable, it can be taken along.

Here we present a selection of the study works, life-size body covers that investigate and illustrate wearable protection and security.
They were presented in a joint performance, which could be discovered like living pictures, tableau vivant, in individual rooms.

Patricia Hepp

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Danhua Lou, SENSE OF SAFETY, International Guest Student
»My idea is inspired from my small blanket, my mom gave me when I was a baby. At the same time, she was holding me in her arms. I always feel like in my mom’s arms when I use my small blanket, it makes me feel home.«

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Felix Schuster, CLOSED / OPEN
"We are beings controlled by emotions. The closer we get to our counterpart and trust him, the more we open ourselves. But if we get hurt, we pull away."

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Jana Hartmann, INNEN "Security is a feeling that is often not caused by a certain place but by certain people. Feelings connect us with other people like a thread. The work INSIDE shows the connection between two people and the chaos of feelings in them."

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Julia Sauter, L’ABRI "The dress L'Abri can be worn by the wearer according to her mood, sometimes open and sociable or mysterious and enveloping. She decides herself on the length and volume of the skirt, on whether it is revealing or enveloping. The large hood envelops her from the waist up.

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Sarah Geissler, SOMNIUM "A combination backpack, jacket, coat, sleeping bag, blanket and pillow. It can be changed by a system of zippers. Depending on your needs, somnium can create a feeling of security like in your own bed, an individual comfort zone for when you are on the move".

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Titus Ebbecke, 38 bottles "A portable house for to keep his belongings and as a retreat. The convertible backpack can be filled with up to 38 deposit bottles in its compartments, making it a mobile cabinet. Folded into a seat, it becomes a place of rest, and spread out, a bed."