Heat objects – Visual arts
- Location: Grenoble, France
What can artists and designers do in the Anthropocene era, in the face of climate change, global warming, the scarcity of fossil resources and the increase in energy costs?
What answers can they provide in terms of winter and summer comfort, and energy efficiency for users? Public policies and construction stakeholders are focusing their efforts on the energy rehabilitation of the existing stock but in a long-term time frame which cannot respond to the urgency of the situation. Also, faced with domestic energy poverty and the generalization of teleworking, rather than heating or cooling the air in a space, we are developing reflective work on the body, as an extension of the SlowHeat research program initiated by the “Architecture and Climate” laboratory of the Catholic University of Louvain.
How can we heat or cool our anatomy using energy-efficient accessories? How can we offer useful, suitable, adaptable, appropriable and dismantling objects that make sense? We imagine plural, low-tech devices, revisiting the principle of clothing, heaters, in the form of accessories that could be attached to existing furniture like a suit. Table skirt, chair mantle, so many devices that we want to explore, while making them reversible, for multiple uses out of season.
Beyond offering the user the possibility of becoming an actor in their thermal regulation, this approach also involves making them autonomous through manual practices: weaving, knitting, sewing… These objects of warmth and freshness seek to create connections, to exchange practices, to extend know-how, to transmit gestures. These devices, manufactured or DIY, will create new sensations and new bodily practices.
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