Indian By Night Lamp

Tonk Flipflops - by Nadine Herrmann

We have explored this in our work in which East meets West, Local meets Global, where we try and see each other’s environment through someone else’s eyes. The result is a series of objects fusing Indian and European elements; hybriding different vision, attitudes and craftsmanship; incorporating religion, etiquette and wellbeing. It is our contribution to a new global way of working, shaping a new cultural landscape.

 

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Vanity Shrine

THE CULTURAL MONGRELS - There’s a modern need for cultural hybriding. Contemporary society challenges individuals and cultures to break boundaries, open up borders and see beyond the familiar. The next generation will increasingly consist of cross-cultural individuals with a patchwork attitude to all aspects of life.
A person used to be shaped by a close family environment and the living conditions of the place one was born; this is still partly the case, but our identities are also shaped from various other sources today. The new global structures have made humans much more mobile and fidgety. We move around different cities in a much higher rate, often involving living in different countries and even different continents.

Cultural identities today resemble the equivalent of a multicoloured street dog - a mongrel.
This project is just one of many possible examples of collaborations and products that might emerge in the future. The challenge for us designers is to explore what aspects are best to merge, to enhance, preserve and what to loose. Can we keep alive who we are, old traditions, cultural heritage and part of our history and combine it with our dreams, the future and who we would like to be.

Bowl in a Box- by Nadine Herrmann