created with Julia Hahnl, Frida Teller and Tobias Kauer
“membran“ is a public space intervention that questions how the urban is constructed. It searches for possibilities of grassroots re-construction and invites playful interaction. The construction industry is responsible for almost a third of world's waste. "membran" re- purposes what is otherwise thrown away. It transforms damaged tarpaulins into nets. Nets that are reimagining dead corners and convert them into spaces of interaction, encounter and play.
To create the nets, damaged tarpaulins collected from construction sites in Vienna are cleaned, cut and twisted into ropes following the traditional craft of rope making. "membran" produced over 1km of stable ropes, which were then knotted into triangular nets.
The process of devaluing and revaluing material, from waste into the nets, echoes the building and re-building of contemporary urban spaces. “membran“ thereby challenges dominant assumptions on how to design and claim public space and invites everyone to climb, relax and play with it.
Alsergarten "Paradies" geplant und umgesetzt von Kollektiv Kaorle,
Beitrag von drei Sitznetzen für den öffentlichen Raum
Exhibition at Climate Biennale Vienna and Vorarlberg Design Forum
as part of the VDW exhibition "Design with a purpose"
If Design Student Award 2024 - Intervention for sustainable cities
Work in Progress development at the Vienna Design Week at Stadtarbeit
First concept development in winter semester
at the University of Applied Art in Vienna 2022
