SOFTHOUSE.
SPACE INVADER / DECONSTRUCTION / TECTONIC / TACTILE / HABITAT
With softhouse, Ruth Spitzer and Sarah Dorkenwald continued to explore stretchy and soft fabrics to create products which remain light while providing different options to adjust to individual spaces and living situations.
The created imagery printed on the fabric is linked to interior design and provides a notion of lifestyle. It also becomes a three-dimensional object when distorted and suspended in space.
A poetic and functional sculpture responds to existing structures and intervenes with interior or exterior spaces.
In the motif, details like an electrical plug or the airport sign symbolize independent ways of living and shelter for the user. Incorporated hardware such as solar panels, light switches, LED, or sound boxes provide more possibilities to interact with the object.
Design - Ruth Spitzer and Sarah Dorkenwald
Year - 2007
Presented - Nuite Blanche, Toronto 2007
Details - 270 x 270cm, high-tech jersey,
dye sublimation, four pieces, prototype