Title project: metaPHÖRMosis
Name : MöRPH
by Elis Frederiksen and Gabriel Giacometti.

Funded by: The National Swedish Handicraft Council (Nämnden för Hemslöjdsfrågor)
In collaboration with: Formas, Lek i Staden, EAC and Linnarhult.

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metaPHÖRMosis

A co-creation of versatile furniture for the site through material gathering, upcycling and craft. A workshop that took place in Linnarhult on the 21 of October 2021.

About: Metamorphosis; a change of physical form, structure or substance. Furniture as animals, transforming from one form to another. As the frog, the buttery or the beetle, this open collaboration aims to create a natural transformation, from discarded material to furniture, using its surface to enhance this metamorphosis.

Transformation/metamorphosis:

1. We gathered material that had been donated, discarded or left in the surroundings by nature.
2. The material took shape through approaching a ‘work-by-doing’ design process.
3. Using a Japanese technique called Shou Sugi Ban (Yakisugi) we burnt the wood to treat it and
   protect it from exterior deterioration. The material’s characteristics changed drastically as we burnt the surface of the furniture.
   
   

The gathering, burning and building happened with no particular order. We explored and experimented with the gathered materials, and allowed for the metamorphosis to go back and forth. As designers and collaborators we worked creatively while recognising and acknowledging our limitations.

About MöRPH:

MöRPH is a design collaboration by Elis Frederiksen and Gabriel Giacometti. It originated in 2019 during our Master studies in Design at HDK while attending a course situated in Linnarhult, Design as Social Intervention. Since then we have been invited back to Linnarhult a few times, where we have been able to further develop our concept of change and metamorphosis. Today, our benches and stools can be found here and there around the site.