Reference material in “Tinklets of the Studio” blog.
Ylvie: Being given an opportunity to work with electronics is great, but the concept needs ways to persist in the visiting audience. Will they know where to get knowledge? Will they know how to continue after the workshop ends?
We are working on tests of this workshop
Parts Database for reproducibility like a kit
The accessible chips stand at odds with the complicated wiring of the underlying board
Where we last left off we had concluded which patterns we would continue to work with. Based on the discussion we decided to continue with the baroque fabric and sofa-styled Husse focusing on comfort and storytelling ,and the more plain Husse with an informative text., explaining our project.
(Sketch of how the project could look in Stadtpark)
Final Hussen Designs
Sofa “baroque style” Husse
Projekt Husse
Diy Designs
Sofa “baroque style” Husse Nr1
…telling the story of the parkbench
(AI generated reference for the baroque-comfort husse)
Project Husse
…giving context
Diy Designs
…functional approach
depending on how much time we will have left
Fabric roadtrip
finding textiles fitting our baroque-comfort Husse and a plain textile that is good to print on was our main focus.
Making pattern
<- help from Annika
Website
We are currently also working on the website for the project
Getting workshop-ready
We have prepared the material needed to screen-print and will start printing on the textiles on Monday.
What do we need help with going forward?
Part of our process this week and last has been to finalise a text about our project that will be printed on one of our main Hussen.
Project description
In the project “Rethinking the Husse”, we explore how park benches can be transformed to make people feel more visible, welcome, and comfortable in public space.
Our chosen tool is the “Husse”, a removable cover that allows us to alter existing benches without damaging or permanently changing their structure. Through this intervention, we investigate how design can reshape the experience of public space.
We want to encourage people not only to use public space, but also to temporarily claim it as their own. Access to public seating was once considered a major social achievement. The public park bench was revolutionary: for the first time, ordinary people could sit in public for free and become visible participants in urban life.
With the Husse Nr1, we reflect both on the lack of comfort in contemporary public seating and on the social history of Stadtpark and the bench itself.
This project invites the people of Vienna to create their own Hussen according to their individual ideas and needs. Our sewing patterns are publicly available, allowing anyone to redesign and reinterpret their own bench. Whether adding comfort, expressing identity, or creating new meanings in public space – every intervention becomes possible.
