Elín Margot

An editorial cell in ETP #1

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Index of uses

The index of uses answer this simple question: How do we use objects ?

It is a range of animated images of people using object with specific instructions as “eat with one hand” or “drink with your smartphone”. 

The point is to save the movement, create an anthropometric collection to understand and build better object, adapted to the body ergonomics.

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Casted objects

Unconsciously, to begin the transformation process of technical aids into singular objects, to mark their "healing", we used plaster strips.

Plaster strips are first of all a formidable material of manufacture. Simple, just soak the strips in the water and accumulate them to create a shape. Even simpler by superimposing them on an existing object. For most people it is in the hospital that we meet plaster for the first time, for others it is on his clumsy classmate who broke his arm or leg or foot, ect ... Good memory of wild art or a bad fall to ski, the plaster marks the spirits because you saw him dismiss a person of his physical abilities. It is our reflective material of predilection, we use it to cover objects of daily life, thus removing their functions we propose another in gestation. Enclosed in its chrysalis of plaster the bowl or lambda plate is proposed with a new gripping. The plastered body is in healing voice, however it will not return to normal. Under the envelope we detect a change that will bring it back to a balance, a functional use. The series of plastered objects is a manifestation against our standardized ways of apprehending the standardized products of our daily life which excludes the original individual. The type object is correct, heal on a case-by-case basis to match a new way of using it.

Du corps_ à l’ouvrage

“Du corps_ à l’ouvrage” is a MA diploma’s project, it is a great study on the relationship between impaired people and their technical aid. For that it is necessary to understand how bodies and mind react to objects, how they use them, how they feel about them. 

Nowadays, with the digital industry improvement, objects become more and more customisable. You can choose for a very low price how the object will look like, adapt it to your needs or even more create it by yourself. Could we do the same for medical objets as technical aid ? "Du corps_ à l'ouvrage" is about building our own medical care, it give the power back to patient who didn't choose their illness. It also bring creativity inside the hospital and turn it into a real public place where anybody can enjoy the service they provide.

A project led by Maëva & Elín Margot, check out the website :

Quiprocos

The small dots of Donenheim #2

To continue and deepen the co-creation of the project with the inhabitants and especially our small users, we imagined an activity with children to know their relationship with space. How do we look at the stars, the animals? Do you prefer to write sitting on a table or on the floor? We want to find physical principles for the small dots, principles directly inspired by the future users of our project. During an activity with the extracurricular, we propose children to imagine their cabin according to the different themes stated above.

Our work is now to analyze and resume the forms that children have imagined in order to create public spaces between library, school and playground.

Les petits points de Donenheim #2

Pour continuer et approfondir cette co-creation du projet avec les habitants et plus particulièrement nos petits usagers, nous imaginons une activité avec les enfants pour cette fois connaître leur rapport a l’espace. Comment est-ce qu’on regarde les étoiles, les animaux ? Est-ce que tu préfères écrire assis sur une table ou par terre ? Nous voulons trouver des principes formelles pour les petits points, des principes directement inspirés par les futurs usagers de notre projet. Pour cela nous proposons aux enfant lors d’une activité avec le périscolaire d’imaginer leur cabane en fonction des différents thèmes énoncés plus haut.

Sensory walk

For the Tourist Agency of the Bas-Rhin, in team we have made a walk sensory kit. This small series of objects allows its users to discover or rediscover the promenade from another view. By removing, increasing or disrupting a sense we create a new experience, specific to each. We renew tourism and create another type of hike, driven by curiosity, discovery and attention to what surrounds us. The kit includes objects of perturbation of the senses and signage cubes to dispersed all along the promenade. To keep track of the experience, to remember it and share it with loved ones, we also imagined a booklet which have to be completed during the walk, the user writes what he hears, draws what he sees, collects what he has felt. This notebook can be decomposed into sensory postcards, ready to be sent.

Those objects have all been tinkered, made with other recovered objects whose function we have modified. Thanks to this they are intelligible, users immediately understand how to use them. We deliver this kit with about ten sensory objects, signage and memo pads / postcards.

Balade sensoriel

Pour l'Agence de Tourisme Départemental du Bas-Rhin, nous avons réalisé en équipe un kit sensoriel de balade. Cette petite série d'objets permet à ses utilisateurs de découvrir ou redécouvrir la promenade sous un autre angle. En supprimant, augmentant ou perturbant un sens nous créons une nouvelle expérience, spécifique à chacun. Nous renouvelons le tourisme et créons un autre type de promenade impulsée par la curiosité, la découverte et l'attention porté à ce qui nous entoure. Le kit inclut les objets de perturbation des sens et des cubes de signalétiques à disperser tout le long de la promenade. Pour garder trace de se souvenir et le partager avec ses proches, nous avons aussi imaginé un livret à compléter durant la promenade, l'utilisateur écrit ce qu'il entend, dessine ce qu'il voit, collecte ce qu'il a senti. Ce carnet se décompose en cartes postales sensoriels, prêtent à être envoyé.

The small dots of Donnenheim # 1

We formed the collective "murmure design" composed of four entities, Sophie / space designer, Thomas / graphic designer, Tristan and Elín / product designers to start a partnership with the BDBR (departmental library of the Bas-Rhin). We took action on the reading point of the village Donnenheim. 

In the early days of the project we focused on meeting with users of the reading point. Through various tools, we tried to find out who was reading, why they were going to the reading point or not going to ... We also focused on knowing the dream reading point of each.

From those tools we have been able to notice that the reading point is still there thanks to the intercommunal school located at 500 meters, the most frequent users are the primary students. 

Therefore we imagined two activities of free creation on support (a great coloring of the village and “my universe” notebooks). These tools have enabled us to determine the activities that children like to do most.

Then we picture a new service, infrastructures supporting activities linked to the reading point, but outside the walls. They are complementary and independant places to the reading point scattered in the village. They induce a playful and educational walk in the nature. They are built according to five themes chosen with the children of the School: the vegetable garden, the observatory, the hut, the cocoon and the theater. In addition to the infrastructures each of these small points offers cards, summaries of works that invite the visitor to fetch the original document at the reading point. It is a true communication, a circuit that takes place between the reading point and the small dots of Donneheim.

Les petits points de Donnenheim #1

Nous avons formé le collectif « murmure design » composé de quatre entités, Sophie /design d’espace, Thomas /design graphique, Tristan et Elín /design de produit pour entamer un partenariat avec la Bibliothèque Départementale du Bah-Rhin (BDBR). Nous sommes intervenus sur le point lecture du village de Donnenheim. L’avancé du projet a été quotidiennement reporté sur ce blog.

Dans les premiers jours du projet nous nous sommes concentrés sur la rencontre avec les usagers du point lecture. À travers différents outils nous avons chercher à savoir qui venaient au point lecture, pour quoi ils y allaient ou n’y allaient pas... Nous nous sommes aussi attachés à connaître le point lecture idéal de chacun. 

De ces outils nous avons pu établir que le point lecture fonctionne grâce à l’école intercommunale située à 500 mètres, les usagers les plus fréquents sont les élèves de primaire. Nous avons alors imaginer deux activités de création libre sur support (un grand coloriage du village et des carnets d’univers). Ces outils nous ont permis d’établir les thèmes et les activités que les enfants aiment le plus faire. 

Herbalism

Textures searches for pots, textile mesh searches for pockets that contain the pot.

L’herboristerie

Coffee Service "Cell"

Cell is a set of cups and saucers for the coffee service is formally based cell division and suggesting a connection between users.The different recipes of coffee: Latte and Cappuccino are related, they are caused espresso. The entire service transcribes this relationship. Pattern matching aims to differentiate forms of cups and identify the coffee recipe they host to facilitate the work of the server.In the manner of the original cell that divides to generate other cells, the service elements are connected and create conversation around them. The user understands that saucer can be associated with his neighbor like a puzzle. As for the tasting / chat users discover the pattern that will feed his curiosity and which only the server knows the secret.

Service à café “Cell”

Cell est un ensemble de tasses et de soucoupes pour le service du café s’inspirant formellement de la division cellulaire et évoquant une connexion entre les utilisateurs. 

Les différentes recettes du café : Latte et Cappuccino sont liées, elles ont pour origine l’expresso.   L’ensemble du service transcrit cette filiation. La recherche de motifs vise a différencier les formes de tasses et à identifier la recette de café qu’elles accueillent pour faciliter le travail du serveur.

À la manière de la cellule originale qui se divise pour générer d’autres cellules, les éléments du service sont connectés et créent la conversation autour d’eux. L’utilisateur comprend que sa soucoupe peut s’associer à celle de son voisin comme un puzzle. Au fur et à mesure de la dégustation/conversation l’usager découvre le motif qui va nourrir sa curiosité et dont seul le serveur détient le secret.

How to move around in a “hospital city”

The university hospital strasbourg is unique in France. Composed of six hospital areas spread in Strasbourg, the major one occupy 13 hectares of the city. It is a close space, a hospital city inside the Strasbourg’s city.

We led a three weeks investigation about traveling inside this hospital city of Strasbourg with Suzanne Husson (graphic designer), Aurélie Roure (space designer) and me, the product designer of the group. The point of this investigation was to find the major problems of moving around in Strasbourg’s hospital. By exploring the place and meeting its users, we wanted to bring awareness on possible answers with a multitude of ideas that could be realised within a short or long period of time.

The hospital city function quite like a city, with roads, streets, traffic sign, sidewalks, etc. Nobody really thought about this hospital traffic, they just did the same as in a regular city, however we thought it should be specific to the medical field. How do you want to move in such a big hospital?

To answer this question we divided the work into three steps:

Feel: First we took our own feelings, our own observations as explorers and designers of the place into account. We discovered that cars are unfortunately mainly use, some just cross the hospital city to avoid traffic in Strasbourg, it forbids anyone who want to have a nice walk or a enjoy break outside buildings. They are a lot of historic monument, a big touristic potential, which is not very developed. At least we found out there are a lot of unused streets, cars and bicycle drive only in three or four roads. This information allows us to find a direction for our project: Strasbourg’s hospital needs to be more pedestrian, less saturated / more peaceful, less pollutant / more open, less centralised.

Communicate: we wanted to create projects for the present and future users of the place. Moving around in a hospital concerns patients but also visitors, health professionals, other workers, tourists, etc. We designed communication and data collection tools. The first tool was an interactive map, it helped us understand how the place works, where are the most crowded places, which path is always empty, which path is the most crowded. The other tool is also a map, or more a graphic. We tried to know how users were feeling when they were moving around in the hospital, we ask people we met to put an elastic through the feeling they encounter when moving int the hospital: Visitors are anxious, patients are bored, and professionals are in a hurry. We also met the security agents who are already in charge of transportation in the hospital, they told us how they mange the cars, and how people do not respect the traffic rules when they are driving in the hospitals. Those tools gave us precious information about uses of the place but also made us meet people easily.

Think: with all this information, we imagine new ways to move around the hospital: close some street and transform them into parks, medical garden, playground for kids or outside sport facilities; create a touristic walks with new signage, an orientation circuit, and other pedagogy equipment; bring tramway and buses inside the hospital; create elevated bridge for patient to move from a building to another without crossing unwanted cars; create adapted sidewalk for disabled patients; and other project that you can discover on the drawings…

Some of those projects are utopian but some are realistic as well, on the short or long term.

All this work was an exhibition which took place in the Gaujot city (14 rue du Maréchal Juin, 67 000, Strasbourg) in February. Elected representatives of Strasbourg and the hospital where invited to the exhibition, we focus there attention on problems we detect and solutions we offer.

Bouger a l’hôpital

Une enquête de trois semaines menée par Suzanne Husson (designer graphique), Aurélie Roure (designer espace) et Elín elín (designer produit) sur le thème du déplacement au sein de la cité hospitalière de Strasbourg. Le but de cette enquête est de relever les problèmes majeurs en prenant contact avec le lieu et ses utilisateurs mais aussi d’ouvrir le champ des possibles en proposant une multitude d’idées à court ou long terme.

La démarche s’articule autour de trois actions :

Ressentir, ce sont nos propres ressentis, nos propres observations en tant qu’humain et designer qui sont tout d’abord pris en compte. Ces informations nous permettent d’orienter notre travail à venir.

Communiquer, nous souhaitons nous adresser à tous les usagers actuels et futurs de la cité, le déplacement au sein du lieu concerne tous les types d’usagers (patients, visiteurs, touristes, professionnel…). Pour cela nous imaginons et créons des outils de communication et de collecte d’informations. Le premier pour connaître les lieux de passages les plus fréquentés et un autre pour découvrir le sentiment de l’usager durant le déplacement. Nous cherchons aussi a échanger avec des professionnels qui s’occupent déjà du déplacement,  les agents de sécurités.

Penser, toutes les informations collectées nous permettent alors de poser des problématiques, une cité :plus piétonnière, moins saturé - plus calme, moins polluante - plus ouvertes, moins centralisé. Auquel nous répondons avec des idées ouvertes réalisables à court ou long terme.

Cheval de noeuds

Poland Workshop with the architecture school of Krakow

“ROPE BY ROPE“is an event which would be held in one of the oldest district of Krakow: Kaziemirch and organized by its inhabitants. It is a city quest composed of 6 different games. Those games take place in abandoned places, empty corner of the city. They are all made with phosphorescent rope, reflective flags and straws (a little material budget suited better to the neighborhood associations), single paper stencils and spray paint for the communication of the event. In order to win the whole game, participants must complete all the challenges (it is also possible to play just one, the player’s wish) and collect straws to make the most fabulous trophies. This is a game for everyone, designed to bring together the cosmopolitan community of Kazimierz (tourists, students, families) time for a night of festivity !

“We are the gapfighters! 'GAP' ... 'FIGHTERS'! So, if you want to play our game, you need some energy, power and speed! Make now two teams, the triangle team and the circle team. The first person start running this relay race and try to be as fast as he can to find the red sticks in the spider web, without touching the ropes, and run back to his team. 'RUN AND JUMP, RUN AND JUMP, RUN AND JUMP, ...' Now, after this awesome and exciting relay race in the dark, you need to make the best trophy with the red straws/sticks and then you win the game of the most clever one! Congrats! Tired and hungry? Perfect, you can go to the foodtrucks with the best belgium fries around the corner and enjoy your break!”

Workshop avec l’école polonaise d’architecture de Cracovie

“De cordes en cordes” est un évènement qui se déroulerait à Kazimierz un des plus anciens quartier de Cracovie, organisé par ses habitants.  Il se présente sous forme de quête composée de 6 épreuves différentes. Ces jeux prennent place dans des lieux abandonnés, des recoins vides de la ville. Ils sont tous réalisés grâce à des cordes phosphorescente, des fanions réfléchissants et des pailles (matériels à petit budget qui convient mieux aux associations de quartier), simples pochoirs en papiers et bombes de peinture pour la communication de l’évènement. Afin de gagner l'ensemble du jeu,les participants doivent remplir tous les défis (il est aussi possible de jouer juste l'un des défis si les joueurs le souhaitent) et collecter les pailles pour réaliser le plus fabuleux des trophées. C’est un jeu pour tous, destiné à réunir la communauté cosmopolite du quartier (touristes, étudiants, familles) le temps d’une nuit de festivité.

«Nous sommes les gapfighters! 'GAP' ... 'FIGHTERS'! Si vous voulez jouer notre jeu, vous aurez besoin d'énergie, de puissance et de vitesse! Faites maintenant deux équipes, l'équipe du triangle et du cercle. La première personne commence à courir cette course de relais et essaye d'être aussi rapide que possible pour trouver les pailles rouges dans la toile d'araignée, sans toucher les cordes, et les ramener à son équipe . «COURS ET SAUTES, COURS ET SAUTES, cours et sautes, ...» Après cette impressionnante et passionnante course de relais dans l'obscurité, vous allez faire le meilleur trophée avec les pailles rouges, ça y est ? Vous avez gagné le jeu du plus rusé! Félicitations! Fatigué et affamé maintenant? Parfait, vous pouvez aller aux foodtrucks avec les meilleures frites Belges du coin et profiter de votre pause! "

Sensitive surface

Many scales are cut following a variable length and width but preferably larger. The elasticity of the material (here the paper) allow to open and close the scales. They are organized on a long surface the viewer even now the “toucher” can create, made hatch forms from this surface, just by passing his hand on the scales. To encourage the viewer to touch the surface, this one has to be in a crossing point.

Surface sensible

Equilibrium

Equilibrium answers the need to balance the light in the countries facing the polar days and nights. The elastic accumulation obstructs the light, they are open through moving windows from top to bottom. The windows provides the same light even at night they are equipped with flat LED. Those are connected to an informatics system that controls their lighting through an application .With its téléphonne the user can program the "light time", mean that the object turn on and off depending on the program in place. Equilibrium is an object that structure the space and light. Imposing, it is placed as a work of art in the house, an impressive sculpture. Equilibrium is manufactured in the country where it is sold, using the materials and techniques of the country. The wood used will be different for each country, and the metal will come from recycled aluminum. At the end of the project life, the wood is re-used in the crushing industry to become paper or panels. The metal is also recycled.

Equilibrium

Equilibrium répond au besoin d’équilibrer la lumière dans les pays confrontés aux jours et nuits polaires. L’accumulation d’élastiques obstrue la lumière, ils sont ouverts grâce à des fenêtres mobiles de haut en bas. Les fenêtres apportent la lumière même la nuit car elles sont dotées de LED plates. Ces dernières sont reliées à un système informatique qui contrôle leur allumage via une application .Avec son téléphonne l’utilisateur peut programmer des «temps de lumière», c’est à dire que l’objet s’allumera et s’éteindra en fonction du programme mis en place. 

Équilibrium est un objet qui structure l’espace et la lumière. Imposant il est placé comme une oeuvre d’art dans la maison, une sculpture impressionnante.

The herbalist kitchen

This project is a teamwork with a student in space design, monitored by the vegetal designer Patrick Nadeau.

The objective was to forget the decorative function of the plant but to truly integrate it in a house, integrate it in the uses of a place, in the everyday life.

The space design student created a house extension inspired by a Moroccan village: Chefchaouen, As the extension housing project was probably made for a Morocco lover client, I decided to integrate plants in the way that they are mostly used in this country, for herbalism. In fact, in Morocco, plants are used to flavour meals but also for their medicinal properties.

Herbalism is the art of preparing plants for their consumption, three steps are needed for that:

1/Grow the plants

2/Harvest, cut and let dry

3/Store the dry leaves

Three objects are designed according to those three actions and are placed in the kitchen. This room is very particular because it is already full of daily rituals where preparing the plants can be easily integrated. Furthermore the plants are already in the room where they are eaten.

When you enter in the kitchen you are in direct visual contact with the plants in the bay window, it reminds you to water them, maybe to harvest them and so to bring one or two pots inside. You turn back with the pot and you face the preparation table or kitchen table. You put the pot in the hole designed for this, and you cut the plant. At last you can store the leaves you just collected in the storing unit in front of the table, or let the pot on/in the table in case you need it later while you eat.

Coral

“Coral” is a nomadic mood lighting which follows the user during summer night. It can adapt to the inside and outside of the house; used as bedspreads, table runner or tablecloth picnic, its flexibility allows it to cling to various surfaces, places, and functions. This light comes from various experiments on the plastic bag, the main pollutants in our oceans. In order to upgrade it and use it, this material is used to make a light. The aesthetics of the light is inspired by sea organisms, especially the pattern that algae and corals produce. It is a committed object which both denounces overproduction but encourages recycling and up-cycling by showing that a single waste can be turned into a valuable item.

Coral

‘‘Coral’’ est un luminaire d’ambiance nomade qui  accompagne l’utilisateur lors de ses soirées d’été. Il s’adapte à l’intérieur et à l’extérieur de  l’habitat; utilisé comme couvre-lit, chemin de table ou nappe de pic-nique, sa souplesse lui permet de s’accrocher à différentes surfaces, lieux, et fonctions.