larissa-kurt

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Larissa Kurt (former Knufmann) is a product designer based in Weimar and Munich. Her affinity for living environment includes all facets from textile and furniture to social structures between humans. Currently her research is about social responsibility of a designer in a changing world and the potential of co-design workshops in craft & design for empowering the individual.

Vita

2012-2017 product design studies at Bauhaus-University Weimar 2016 interior design and guidance of the co-working sewing workshop SALLEH STUDIO 2015-2016 project management at TalentCAMPus program for refugee children 2015-2016 project management at refugee relief organization WE HELP Weimar 2007-2012 interior decorator at danish furniture design company BoConcept 2010 graduation at Rainer-Werner-Fassbinder-School of Art & Design in Munich 2009 internship at Eva Simon Studio for fashion and textile design in Munich 1990 born in Munich

Exhibition

2016 Ortles in Altes und neues Glas Exhibition at Museum für Vor- und Frühgeschichte Saarbrücken in cooperation with HBKsaar and CIAV 2016 Sonder and SALLEH STUDIO at Future Vintage Exhibition at Alte Staatsbank in Weimar 2016 Patchbag at BMW Welt in Munich 2015 Mit Kind und Kegel at Expo Milan 2015, German pavilion 2015 Laszlo reflection suits, costume design for Steiger & Ziegner at Expo Milan’15, German pavilion 2015 Patchbag at BMW Brand Store in Brussels, Belgium 2015 Fold. and Mit Kind und Kegel at Gallery Konstantin B. in Regensburg, Germany

Publication

2016 Fold. in Paper Moods Magazine 2015 Fold. in Port Magazine 2015 Sonder in Bootcamp catalogue

Lecture

2016 MCBW iF Universal Design Borderline Change Forum

Teaching

2016 Art workshop with unaccompanied underaged refugees 2015 Open Bauhaus wood design workshop 2015 Sewing and fashion design workshop for refugee girls

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SALLEH STUDIO

Guidance, interior design, graphic work, PR Textile co-working space for newcomers and locals as a productive meeting place to train sewing techniques and realize own ideas while getting in contact with other people. Our women’s day gives refugee women a room for individual development. Knowledge transfer and cooperativeness are in focus.

The project is supported by Bundesministerium für Familie, Senioren, Frauen und Jugend im Rahmen des Bundesprogramms Demokratie Leben, Thüringer Landesprogramm für Demokratie, Toleranz und Weltoffenheit Denk Bunt und WE Help

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CRAFT & DESIGN EMPOWERMENT Summer 2015, thousands stranded at Europe’s borders on a search for a safe refuge. After the arrival in Germany the application for asylum needs almost one year. One year of waiting to start a new life. While waiting for residence and learning a new language the co-creating workshops can give orientation and hold.

Using the power of crafts, working with your own hands and creating something has a soul healing effect on human being. Beside the training of skills in the workshop, the collaboration has a huge impact on the capability of teamwork and the chance of knowledge transfer. Beside all, craft functions as language and supports a non-verbal communication to cross diverse culture and languages.

The empowerment of the individual is the basis of a participating society. A chain is only as strong as its weekest link. We need to support those who are in need of support to arrive. This project was part of WHAT DESIGN CAN DO #RefugeeChallenge https://vimeo.com/167475897 Fotographer: Dennis Arnold 

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ORTLES Originated at workshop ‘15 at CIAV Meisenthal / International Glas Art Centre Glas on stone - the mountain looking bump causes that wine is oxygenized while filling the decanter  More pictures coming soon.

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FOLD.  Porcelain lamp A liaison between porcelain and paper. White and fragile - the unwritten sheet. The experiment with folding structures causes the decomposition in geometric fractals.

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FOLD. Porcelain series A liaison between porcelain and paper. White and fragile - the unwritten sheet. The experiment with folding structures causes the decomposition in geometric fractals.

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MIT KIND UND KEGEL Porcelain tableware - familial objects out of twisted and truncated cones. Every single piece is similar and different at same time. In collaboration with Ina Turinsky, Dörte Siemens and Markus Pauthner The objects were shown at EXPO Milan 2016 German pavilion during a Bauhaus exhibition 

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CFK PATCHBAG for BMWi Multifunctional and ultralight outdoor adventure backpack for hiking, climbing, skiing, snowboarding and bicycling with carbon fiber safety patches and impact energy absorbing protector out of self-colapsing recycled carbon fiber.  In collaboration with Alexander Hammon Project 2nd Life CFK: product design for recycled carbon fiber resource in cooperation with BMW i Design The challenge of the cooperation project with BMW i was to develop innovative and functional products, using the resource of recycled carbon fiber smartly under attention of the lightweight feature and creative leeway. It was the task to design products under attention of both technical and aesthetic aspects with the perspective of serial production. Patchbag was exhibited in 2015 at BMW Brand Store in Brussels and is now shown at BMW Welt in Munich.

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SONDER Urban camouflage suit - coat out of geometric vintage fabric One planet for seven billion humans. Cities rising faster and faster. Vertical cities shoot up out of nowhere. Tower blocks everywhere you look. Welcome to the concrete desert. Gigantic architecture that swallows up human being. The individual overlooked in the mass. Surrounded by thousands of souls to lose yourself. Be someone and become nobody. Get lost in the city. Invisible in the mass, but always watched by someone. The illusion of being unseen while being observed. Being seen and not seen. Collective loneliness. Studio photos: Emily Daniel

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FRACTAL BACKPACK Geometric patchwork leather backpack 

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*41 Sculptural wardrobe redesign dedicated to Charles & Ray Eames Black steel and beech wood balls In collaboration with Jakob Fricke

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WALTER Slatted Hexagon Chair for Walter Gropius Haus am Horn in Weimar Completely dismountable construction out of slatted ash wood, steel connectors and raw linen

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PAPIERKRAM Storage bag suitable for all Eiermann E2 table out of paper-look resilient Tyvek

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POW! Lightweight and easy-build modular Working Desk and stool

In collaboration with Christina Giesa

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POW! Lightweight and easy-build modular Working Desk and stool In collaboration with Christina Giesa Video: Larissa Knufmann & Christina Giesa Supported by:  Nivre Film & Studio Editing: Larissa Knufmann Sound Design: Toni Kurt