Seeking to restore the balance between people and planet, the ‘Out of the Woodworks’ open call by NOV Gallery challenges designers and makers to demonstrate a new appreciation for the value and role of timber in today’s material world. While wood is placed as a sustainable material option, when sourced from responsibly managed forests, this project invites us to look at its reuse by using an existing wooden object as the starting point. In reimagining the objects, and reinventing their aesthetic or function, it blends craft and high tech with each project underpinned by a circular mindset. And, in exploring more meaningful methods of creation, joy is experienced in the knowing that it contributes to a positive, and more sustainable, future.  

Participating designers:

• Elsa Audoin & Robin Delerce
• Renaud Defrancesco
• Georg Foster & Leonard Kraettli
• Amandine Gini & Victor Moynier
• Gabriel Hafner & Alex Nguyen
• Valentin Dubois
• Scheidegger Pauli
• Noelani Rutz and Aleksandra Maria Szwec