Inout Designers Config. 01

Varios diseñadores

07/09/06. (Sala 242)

With an internationally renowned college of art (ECAL) and a design museum (mudac) that has no reason to envy those set in great capitals, design is doing well in Lausanne ! It is therefore logical that a young design scene should be emerging here. It is called INOUT and defines itself as a promotional platform bringing young creative people together by means of exhibitions, publications and productions. The INOUT platform aims to play the role of a catalyst, offering young professionals who have already distinguished themselves through their work, a structure devised in such a way that one can enter it (IN) or leave it (OUT) without affecting the dynamics of the group. Its configuration will differ every time and it will be supplemented as required, depending on the particular project, by bringing in new elements.

Benefiting from a carte blanche exhibition at the mudac and the support of sundry partners and sponsors, INOUT is emerging under ideal conditions. Thus, 12 young designers have invested the museum’s spaces with the project of (re)designing Lausanne’s urban landscape. Experiencing the city through the eyes of these designers is equivalent to sitting down in company of a tree, setting up one’s work space in a public park, opening one’s shutters onto a fruit and vegetable market, washing in a fountain, having one’s path blocked by a bead necklace… so many propositions, and plenty of others that are just as unusual but imbued with a realism that is inherent in to the product design.

Fortified by this initial experiment and encouraged by the enthusiasm it is generating, INOUT already has its sights set on other fields of play, other places to conquer, with the aim of promoting young French-speaking Swiss designers beyond our borders. This is a bold venture, but it is one which testifies to the ambition animating each of the group’s members and also proves that individual personalities born along by the strength and dynamics of the collective are far from being « out »