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  • 21.3. - 21.9.2025
    exhibition

    our project "the idea of a tree" is part of the 2nd solar biennale "Soleil-s" at the MUDAC in Lausanne.
    Will live production of objects for their permanent collection on the 19.March, 21.June, 21.September

    MUDAC - solar biennale 2

  • ongoing
    permanent installation

    "Vital Rain" is a permanent installation in the museum yard. The installation was commissioned on the occasion of the "water pressure" exhibition in 2024

    MK&G Hamburg

  • ongoing
    interior design

    We developed the interior for the "Direktion - für alle". A multipurpose room in the MAK for workshops, readings, lectures, receptions, or simply as a place to relax.

    MAK

  • 22.5 - 6.7.2025
    exhibition

    our "ratio" project is part of the 13th edition of the Saint-Étienne International Design Biennial with the topic "Resource(s), Foreseeing the future"

    Design Biennale Saint Etienne

  • 6.6.2025 - 25.1.2026
    exhibition

    the "curiosity cloud-european edition" is part of the exhibition "WEtransFORM European Bauhaus and behond" exhibition. This adapted version represents extinct, endangered and common insects from Europe.

    Bundeskunsthalle Bonn

  • 18.9.2024 - 18.5.2025
    exhibition

    our "access" glasses are part of the exhibition AUT NOW - 100 x Austrian design for the 21st century.

    MAK - AUT NOW

  • april 2024 - ongoing
    factory tour

    We designed the factory tour for Laufen in Gmunden with a lot of details and small installations to guide and inform local and international guests.

    Laufen Gmunden

  • 2025
    awards

    Happy that the "access" glasses won the PULSE Award and the 3rd place at the Austrian "Neptun-Wasserpreis"

access

glassware that confronts people with the global distribution of clean drinking water

  • year 2022

  • categories artistic research
    Products & Furniture

  • commissioned by

    Punta Conterie

from left: Sub Saharan Africa 30%; Europe and Northern America 96%; Western Asia & Northern Africa 79%; Latin America 75%; Central & Southern Asia 62%; World average 74%;
image credit: Francesco Allegretto

detail of the engraved bottom;
image credit: Francesco Allegretto

Access – water glassware is a set of six drinking glasses. It confronts the people dining, with the global distribution of clean drinking water. Each glass represents a specific region and translates the available percentage of clean water access.⁠

Each glass consists of a base and a cup part, together they make up 100 percent. The transparent part shows the safely accessable drinking water. Whilst the colored base, refers to a limited access of water, the engraved lines on the bottom stand for the unimproved amount in that region. An engraving allocates what region the glass represents.⁠

concept sketch

“We often take clean and fresh tap-water for granted - maybe we should see it more often in relation to other areas, to cherish it more and use it in a respectful way ”

glass that represents Central and Southern Asia;
image credit: Francesco Allegretto

process picture of the glass blowing process;
image credit: Francesco Allegretto

engraving in the making;
image credit: Francesco Allegretto

  • material

    mouth blown glass, engraved

  • dimension

    12 cm x 6,5 cm

  • curated by

    Elisa Testori

  • produced by

    Vetreria Simone Cenedese and Eugenio Panizzi⁠

     

     

  • team

    Katharina Mischer, Thomas Traxler,  Sophia Stoewer, Florian Semlitsch, Christoph Heidebrecht

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