We recently hosted a class of students from the LA ArtCenter's Spatial Experience Design Program. The class, called Woman Made, aims to 'bring to light the profound impact of women designers’, and is inspired by the Phaidon publication of the same name.
STUDIO VISIT
The Woman Made class touches on everything from product design to creative technologies, and visits a range of female-identified creative practices across LA. For their visit to the Twenty One Tonnes Studio, they were particularly interested to learn about our collaborative design process with indigenous craft communities.
We shared how Twenty One Tonnes was founded and how the business and our design philosophy have evolved over the past decade; We spoke about the collaborations and partnerships we've established with women’s traditional craft organizations, social enterprises, and small family craft businesses; And we gave an overview of the natural indigenous plant materials used to produce our products.
CIRCULAR DESIGN
The studio tour fuelled an inspiring conversation about sustainable circular design. It's exciting to hear a group of young women designers explore the potential of indigenous natural materials and ideas of collaborative and inclusive design. We believe that these two elements are crucial to achieving truly sustainable solutions to global design challenges.
INCLUSIVE DESIGN
When people who have traditionally been shut out of design conversations are able to bring their insights to the table they challenge traditional norms and push design boundaries. And the resulting solutions are more equitable than those yielded by less diverse design processes.
We're thrilled to have been able to welcome this group of young women designers and we can't wait to see what they create.
