How to Pack. A Workshop with Ted Noten

Don’t panic, it’s not about a – mathematical structure – it’s more about finding something that will find its way to the customer. The customer might be an individual: the item could be an individual, or a multiple for a group, for a nation, or even for the universe.
Ted Noten will hold a one-hour 1:1 discussion with each participant about their work/development/search.

He will also give a talk about his “struggles” – about his making, himself and parts of his work – where he explains the context in which Ted Noten's work as a “contemporary jeweler” came about over the last 34 years.


Workshop fees: CHF 500.–
Students are entitled to a 10 % discount.
A discount is offered if more than one workshop is booked.

Participants: maximum 8.
Subscription: up to two weeks before the workshop begins.
Advance payment: half of the workshop fee.

Course material is included in the cost.
Metal is charged separately.
Tools are available.

Course languages: German and English.

You will receive detailed information before.
the ­ workshop ­ begins.
Modifications reserved.

Ted Noten
Ted Noten’s designs act as a critique of contemporary life and the history of jewellery, as well as of the wider context of product design. Interestingly, his work equally relates to art and architecture. The underlying, recurring, theme of his work is to challenge convention and processes of habituation, the familiar and the unusual. The designer initiated some projects, only to be adopted later by a museum, as was the case for example with ‘Chew your own brooch’ With a little help from the chewing gum he hands out, everybody can become a jewellery designer; simply by chewing the gooey substance into a shape the craftsman then casts either in silver, bronze or gold. By lifting symbols from their everyday surroundings and placing them in a new context, he doesn’t so much query the symbol itself as our perception of it. As with the Mercedes project for instance, for which he cut out brooch fragments from the bodywork of this status symbol par excellence and then offered them for sale. Or the fire weapon he cast in an acrylate handbag. Or the boxing glove to fit the hand of a baby. Or the pearl necklace for the bird sculptures of artist Tom Klaassen.
/ Gert Staal, Design critic and former deputy director of the Netherlands Design Institute.