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Andrea Dezsö

ART

PROJECTS

WRITING

TEACHING FEATURES

STUDENT WORK 2003- 2004
Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum Collaboration Studio

BUILD A BAG WORKSHOP

Using this interactive tool children can design and decorate online, then download easy-to-follow instructions and sew the bags. Famous bag designers and historic examples are also showcased.

by Larissa Pickens
Lucy Simanjuntak

Kirsten Osborn
Sonia Chopra

Parsons School of Design, Design & Technology MFA
Instructor: Andrea Dezsö
Try it out! (This is an outside link)
Studio featured in Metropolis magazine

 

During this Collaboration Studio students have followed a design process I call "evolutionary".
I was inspired by the folk craft methods artisans in traditional cultures use to develop objects over several generations. In this process heritage and mindful iterations are important. Students learn to work with something that existed before their time. They add their contribution, maintaining the integrity of the original work. Then they pass it on to the next generation of students who will join the Collaboration Studio one semester later. Students "learn the craft" by first adding functionality, de-bugging,
improving pieces inherited from the previous semester. Later they propose and create brand new, original pieces.