Pétale – accompagnement au rituel de deuil
(Petal – accompaniment to mourning ritual)
DESIGN: Gabrielle Roberge, Marie-Pier Savard (R+S Studio)
Canada
make me! 2019
Petal reinterprets the notion of personification through a series of biodegradable products, using the funeral urn as central element to provoke an entry into mourning. The collection offers a new ritual based on enhancement of the body, putting in front ecological advantage and memorial heritage. Presence of the body is evoked by a distinction of form and texture in urn’s center and amplified by the add of “post-crematory” residues directly to the natural fiber materiality, causing thereby loss’ realization. Once underground, time interferes freeing ashes for a return to earth; a parallel to the passage through the mourning process.
Pétale – accompagnement au rituel de deuil (Petal – accompaniment to mourning ritual), design: Gabrielle Roberge, Marie-Pier Savard (R+S Studio) / from designer’s archive
Pétale – accompagnement au rituel de deuil (Petal – accompaniment to mourning ritual), design: Gabrielle Roberge, Marie-Pier Savard (R+S Studio) / from designer’s archive
Pétale – accompagnement au rituel de deuil (Petal – accompaniment to mourning ritual), design: Gabrielle Roberge, Marie-Pier Savard (R+S Studio) / from designer’s archive
Pétale – accompagnement au rituel de deuil (Petal – accompaniment to mourning ritual), design: Gabrielle Roberge, Marie-Pier Savard (R+S Studio) / from designer’s archive
Gabrielle Roberge
Marie-Pier Savard
/ R+S Studio
R + S studio combines a multidisciplinary background and joins their skills in product design, planning and sustainable development to bring new user-centered experiences around human and sensitive themes. Approaching design with a research-creation method, their different responses aim to a democratization while paying particular attention to details and materiality. Newly graduated from L’École de design of Université Laval in Spring 2018, the duo continues their personal and collective development – Marie-Pier, with a master’s in research-oriented design, at L’École de design of Université Laval and Gabrielle, with a master’s degree focused on sustainable city, at L’École de design Nantes Atlantique.
