domaine de boisbuchet workshop programme 2013

domaine de boisbuchet, situated on a 15th century estate in the country’s southwest region between poitou-charentes and limousin. boisbuchet is a venue for creative experimentation, an initiative established twenty-two years ago by alexander von vegesack, founder of the vitra design museum, where for the past 16 years – each summer over the course of four months – participants have arrived from around the world to engage in relevantly themed workshops lead by selected internationally established artists, designers and architects including werner aisslinger, shigeru ban, nacho carbonell, matali crasset, konstantin grcic, jaime hayon, sou fujimoto, kengo kuma, ingo mauer, max lamb, joep van lieshout, simon velez…

in cooperation with vitra design museum and the centre georges pompidou, CIRECA has been putting on an international summer academy at domaine de boisbuchet since 1996. the international summer workshops are offered from june through mid-september — architecture, product design, textile design, interior design, exhibition design, performance design, sound design, design and entrepreneurship, jewelry, fashion design, writing and criticism, food design, packaging, industrial design, furniture design, glass and porcelain design, art direction, land art…

the courses are led by renowned designers, architects and artists who live and work together with the participants for a length of five to ten days: oliviero toscani, patricia urquiola, maarten baas, designmarketo, tomás alonso, benjamin hubert, pierre favresse, august de los reyes, jordi enrich jorba, shin azumi, pedrita, snarkitecture, paul haigh, noé duchafour-lawrance, FREITAG, sandra piesik, zuzunaga, amina agueznay, mischer‘traxler, groenlandbasel, marcelo rosenbaum, ionna vautrin, marie piet, maria blaisse, katja gruijters, alice twemlow, anna heringer, tomas kral, daniel michalik, andrew ondrejcak, michael flury, peter marigold, matteo zorzenoni, sigga heimis, ron gilad, nikolay polissky.