ALEXANDRE HUMBERT X MACGUFFIN
The Rug - Host of Imagination
Design Academy Eindhoven, 2020

In 1967, Michel Foucault defined the concept of Heterotopia, the idea that a physical object can host imagination. In 2020, nineteen students from the Design Academy Eindhoven used the context of confinement to explore their rugs. Their rooms — in Brooklyn, London, Ljubljana, Paris, Boyle, Prague and Eindhoven — became their film sets, their phones became their cameras, and the constraints imposed by confinement became design opportunities. In collaboration with MacGuffin and Alexandre Humbert they produced a collection of two-minute films, capturing rugs as spaces of illusion.
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Filmstills © Meghan Clark, Pete Fung, Paul Bès, Weixiao Shen
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