The outer reaches of design. A workshop with Mirjam Hiller

By limiting the abundance of options, we open up new, enriching prospects in design. When we focus on a smaller range of tools and materials our focus undergoes a shift, creating a fairground of fertility for novel ways to use them. We will be applying a variety of ‘expansion principles’ as we use saws and scissors to coax sheet metal (copper, brass or steel) out of its flatness and into the three dimensions of space. These techniques cause the sheet metal to unfurl, expand or disintegrate into an incredible variety of shapes and structures both by chance and by deliberate design,

And this is how new things come into being: Ideas adapt and evolve; they rest, sprout forth, and intertwine. Our curiosity is our impetus, our senses our compass, and our material our medium. 

Every moment is our goal.


Workshop fees: CHF 500
Students are entitled to a 10% discount.
A discount is offered if more than one workshop is booked.
Advance payment: half of the workshop fee.
Hours:
Fri 16 – 21 h
Sa / Sat 11 – 19 h
So / Sun 10 – 17 h
Participants: maximum 8
Subscription: Up to two weeks before the workshop begins.
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.

The workshops are aimed at goldsmiths and jewellery designers, architects and artists, designers and teachers, students and ambitious and interested people.


Mirjam Hiller born 1974 in Stuttgart, Germany.
1999 – 2002Goldsmiths' School Pforzheim, Vocational College for Design, Jewellery and Appliances.
2003 – 2008Studies at Pforzheim University, Faculty of Design.
2005 – 2006Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax, Canada.
Since 2008freelance jewellery artist with her own workshop in Potsdam, then Hechingen and now Pforzheim.


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