c Marcell Nimfuehr / Kollektiv Fischka

c Marcell Nimfuehr / Kollektiv Fischka

c Marcell Nimfuehr / Kollektiv Fischka

FIRE-KITCHEN is an exemplary process in which raw materials, food ingredients and clay, will be transformed into a usable kitchen unit and fully set dinner table. It proposes an action that happens in public and is open to participation: pots, fire stoves and tableware will be formed from clay and baked in a wood fire, obtaining a black, matte surface through reduction and oxidation. A feast will be prepared, food cooked with the recipes from all participants and shared around the table during the opening.

Through hands-on work and sensual contact with the raw clay as well as the archaic experience of cooking on fire, the understanding and accessibility of the complete production process is increasing, while the process itself is reduced in its complexity. The project wants to raise our curiosity for the processes behind the things and how they are all interconnected: raw materials, labour, economic factors and resulting prices are often  incomprehensible. The production conditions of low quality mass-produced objects reflect the little appreciation and lack of connection with the origin of the objects.

The project is inspired by the Brazilian Barro Preto pottery that has the typical black coloured surface after being baked in open fire. The oxidation resulting from reduction burning allows the pots to breathe while being more dense. Earthenware  baked on open fire can be found in all cultures, such as the Moroccan Tajine, the Mexican Barro Negro from Oaxaca,Turkish Güvec, the Japanese Nabe, the German Roemertopf etc.

The project FIRE-KITCHEN was realized in cooperation with the Austrian Caritas group Kompa and invited refugees from different countries (Syria, Lebanon, Afghanistan, Iran) and neighbours to participate in a 10 day action in an enchanted backyard garden in the center of Vienna: starting from a selected recipe a cooking pot and a table stove were designed and built from clay. Throughout the 10 days, several cooking pots, steamers, tajines, open baking pans and closed ovens, coffee and tea pots and jugs were created, burned in wood fire and used for cooking.

The project Fire-Kitchen took place in the framework of the Vienna Design Week 2016 Stadtarbeit Format.
It received the MehrWERT-Designpreis 2016 for social design of Erste Bank Austria.

Team: Johanna Dehio, Mascha Fehse, Valentina Karga, Liza Schluder, Sèbastien Tripod

Furniture Workshop with students and staff of Zeppelin University, Friedrichshaven in September 2016.
The triangular stools and mobile storage trolleys for so called in-between spaces (“Zwischenräume”) can be used for various purposes and formally quote the multifunctional new architecture.
Coming in 3 different heights, the stools can be arranged creating an auditorium situation with rising levels, they can be used as side tables or stacked to save space.

In collaboration with Karen van den Berg and Ulrike Shepherd of Zeppelin Universität.

Centro cultural, canteiro aberto

Designed in the early twentieth century by portuguese immigrant Francisco de Castro, the village is a witness of the change of Sao Paulo. To reform it implies not only technical and architectural challenges, but also a public debate about the different conceptions of the city. Reform is here understood broadly: what to restore? How? For which uses?
Without an original plan, Vila Itororo incorporated existing homes, used materials of demolished buildings, took advantage of colonial and modern elements and grew through ‚‘ puxadinhos ‚‘.
Over the decades, about 300 people lived in the village and between 2006 and 2013, inhabitants resisted against the expropriation of the area, and won the right to stay in three buildings in the central region.
Throughout the restauration process we do not intend to return to a distant past or extricate itself of recent events; It is developed with the intention of working on the history of the site. This challenge is being put to all who wish to live, in the various forms, in the Vila Itororó. The structures presented are fruits of this necessity and structure the temporary cultural center at the construction site – a result of the collaborative workshop organized by ConstructLab, a group specializing in collective and temporary buildings.

As part of the ConstructLab, a collective workshop, construction and activation, i contributed the workshop for furniture and textile – flags.

mercato dei frutti minori

mercato dei frutti minori

mercato dei frutti minori

mercato dei frutti minori

Inspiration: Luminari

Inspiration: Luminari

Intervention of common building of the roof and market furniture with Alexander Roemer | Construct Lab.
Initiated by Luigi Coppola and Alessandra Pomarico.

parco dei frutti minori | free home University

Osthang Stools

Osthang Chairs

Osthang Chairs

Osthang Main Hall

Osthang Symposium

Summer School

Workshop Presentation

Wood Watering

Thonet Steam Oven

Bending

Chair Prototype

Chair Frames

Thonet Workshop

Stools

Chairs

Opening Food Preparation

Osthang Symposium

Symposium

Watering Basin

Bent wood furniture Workshop in collaboration with ConstructLab and atelier Bow Wow in the context of the construction of the mainhall of Osthang Campus during the experimental building Summerschool on Mathildenhöhe 2014.

Building together – thinking together – living together was the main theme of the Osthang Campus during the Darmstädter Architecture Summer.

Design, craftsmanship, and material have always been important topics at Mathildenhöhe. We collaborated with one of the world’s most renowned furniture producers on continuing this tradition. In its ‘mobile wood-bending unit’, Thonet was teaching its bentwood production techniques and supporting with construction of the chairs for the main event hall.

Construisine II c Fleur van Dodewaard

Construisine II c Fleur van Dodewaard

Construisine II c Fleur van Dodewaard

Construisine II

Construisine II

Construisine II Workshop c Constanze Flamme

Construisine II Workshop c Constanze Flamme

Construisine II Workshop c Constanze Flamme

Construisine II

Construisine II

Construisine II

Construisine II Connections

Construisine II Food

Klee Stool in Klee House c Fleur van Dodewaard

Klee Stool in Klee House c Fleur van Dodewaard

Klee Stool

As a primordial central place of creative production and communication, Johanna Dehio proposes the imaginary model of a fireplace, serving both as origin and nutrition for the experimental and interactive developement and as a workshop for the ideation of further projects.
To be able to bring live to the old masters houses and to make them useful mainly asks for the installation of a mutual exchange. The installation of the CONSTRUISINE (= workshop + fireplace) stands as a first step, where – as in every kitchen – matter is brought in and processed and developed using various tecniques. Thereby both, nutrition and construction materials as theoretical input are equally seen as matter. Throughout the process all this is beeing investigated, discussed and experimentally tested on possible appliances.

It is a main goal of the project, to stimulate an active communication through an invitation to common building and cooking, using and eating. Meanwhile central themes of the historic Bauhaus, such as craft manufactiure vs. industrial production can be discussed and referenced with actual streams like lokal production and social involvement. Further, the possibilities of arguing and treating the cultural heritage between museum context and real actual and located needs can be discussed.
Possible products can range from researches, projects, design developements to situations or recepies all asking for a playful interaction and communikation between people, object, space and surrounding.

Every creative process is asking for the definition of a framework and the set up of a specific working situation as a first step. The basic set up of the CONSTRUISINE consists of a mobile workshop- and cooking situation. All parts have incorporated a certain function such as the manufacturing of simple pieces of furniture using simple connection methods or the cooking of simple recipies that are doable for everyone.

Based on a study of different aspects of improvisation which are consistently serving as an impulse and inspiration for Johannas work, she is concerned with the substance of relationships between the user and the object which implicates a responsibility for the things.
She creates objects that are characterized on a functional level by open and accessible structures that provoke interaction. On an artistic level the inspiration through improvisation leads to a form-language that combines various materials and surfaces with a plain and clear design.
She is currently researching the fireplace as a referencial model for creative process both on a practical and theoretical level.

Exhibition: 12. 12. 2013 – 16. 03. 2014
http://www.bauhaus-dessau.de/

Theatre Audience, Arte Util Stools

Museum of Arte Util

A-Legal Office

Archive

Rocking Chairs

Entrance

Archive

Wooden Ring

Room of Controversy

Arte Util Team

Stool

Marriage

Theatre Audience

A-Legal Room

On December 7 the old building of the Van Abbemuseum becomes the Museum of Arte Útil, a place where art’s use value and social function will be analysed. Museum of Arte Útil is initiated by the artist Tania Bruguera, developed with the Van Abbemuseum and constructLab and realised by its users.

Arte Útil in Spanish roughly translates as ‘useful art’ but it goes further suggesting art as a tool or device. The Museum of Arte Útil will present an archive spanning nearly two centuries. These case studies imagine, create and implement beneficial outcomes by producing tactics that change how we act in society. Some of the case studies will be activated by users of the museum, whilst others will be analysed and debated.

How do we ‘use’ the museum? How can it become a site of production, and output? Through this project the museum aims to transform the museum, with a fixed set of attributes, into a Social Power Plant. At the project’s core is the Arte Útil archive, which tracks a significant and growing development in artistic practice. This archive provides the fuel for the Social Power Plant where it can be activated through use, analysis and debate.

As part of the ConstructLab, a collective construction and activation Moment, i realised together with the other members the design, developement and construction of the Museum scenography and furniture.

CONSTRUISINE

CONSTRUISINE food preparation

CONSTRUISINE

CONSTRUISINE kitchen

CONSTRUISINE Team

CONSTRUISINE Visitors

CONSTRUISINE

CONSTRUISINE

CONSTRUISINE food

CONSTRUISINE food

CONSTRUISINE food

CONSTRUISINE food

CONSTRUISINE visitors

CONSTRUISINE visitors

CONSTRUISINE food

CONSTRUISINE

CONSTRUISINE timetable

CONSTRUISINE workshop

CONSTRUISINE

CONSTRUISINE

Within the framework of Vienna Design Week 2013 ‚Stadtarbeit‘, designers Johanna Dehio and Dominik Hehl initiated a project named CONSTRUISINE.

CONSTRUISINE is an open kitchen / furniture workshop built on a public square in the centre of Vienna. It invites neighbors and passers-by to build furniture and cook food according to suggested recipes and templates. For the designers construction materials and nutrition can be regarded equally as elementary basics for creation.
They are seen as essential components of our daily existence. The practice of building and cooking are similar in their use of tools, measurements and improvisational thinking. CONSTRUISINE interweaves both activities and transforms the Sankt Elisabeth Platz in Vienna into a temporary creative meeting point.

CONSTRUISINE is a public low-cost, consumption-conscious, temporary initiative. All raw materials, both ingredients and construction materials, where obtained through donations from local businesses. The basic set-up consists of working- and kitchen desks, that through their design conduct their users into a self-explanatory production process. Through these tools the designers propose simple food and furniture recipes, based on clever use of recycled materials, that inpsire people to participate and develop their own. Workshops and food are distributed free of charge.

For the construction and maintenance of CONSTRUISINE the designers work closely with a group of youngsters from a local Caritas-program. During opening times designers are present to accompany visitors with cooking and constructing furniture. The program includes children workshops in cooking and furniture building.

Project team: Johanna Dehio, Dominik Hehl, Lukas Heraut, Franziska Lutze, Omar Nazif, Tomasz Polanski, Camille Riboulleau, Alexander Römer, Rieke Vos.

Casa do Vapor

flying Sardinha

Casa do Vapor Stools

Casa do Vapor Stools

Lagre Sardinha

Wooden Shoes

Wheel Chair

Casa do Vapor Furniture

Large Sardinhas

Rocking Sardinha

Sardinhas

Casa do Vapor Stools

Casa do Vapor Stools

Casa do Vapor Stools

Casa do Vapor

Casa do Vapor

Casa do Vapor Kitchen

Casa do Vapor

Flying Fish

Casa do Vapor

The furniture and objects arise from an observation of the main two characteristica percieved in Cova do Vapor: the ongoing project, a free place for people from the village and from abroad for meeting, discussing, projecting, producing and simply being on the one side and the strong impression of nature and the low complex cultural structures of the village on the other side.

The objects aim to create a relationship between the people, between people and objects and between objects and the place in various ways. Formally, the objects are all based on the graphic sign, the V. A and the Sardinha (><> <><).

Two big sculptural sardinhas for one or many people to sit or lie on are swimming in the sand dune towards the sea, the third sardinha turning into a see-saw for children to play on.

A swarm of little stools inviting to playfully form a circle or other shapes and signs and representing as much as serving to a group of people always in interaction with each other.

The wooden shoes that are made for walking in the sand and traditionally used by fishermen – in the shape of a sardinha, leaving the sign in the sand – as a proposal for a small series production involving the people.

And finally the three dimensional flying sardinha, simply relating to this phantastic position with the feet in the sand at the coast in the wind, this place that offers the best sardinhas in the world!

Furniture and products designed and produced together with inhabitants and project members during a ConstructLab at Casa do Vapor in the framework of Lisbon Triennale 2013.

Exhibition Window

Exhibition Window

Exhibition Window

The „work-show“ at the window gallery, curated by VIENNA DESIGN WEEK, shows studio and production prototypes that deliver insight into the work of Berlin based designer Johanna Dehio.

„Assemblage“ introduces themes that Johanna Dehio engages with in her work: based on a study of different aspects of improvisation which are consistently serving as an impulse and inspiration for her work, she is concerned with the substance of relationships between the user and the object which implicates a responsibility for the things.

She creates objects that are characterized on a functional level by open and accessible structures that provoke interaction. On an artistic level the inspiration through improvisation leads to a form-language that combines various materials and surfaces with a plain and clear design.

Pieces

Pieces

Pieces

Material Gallery

Material Gallery

Pieces

Workshop

Workshop

Workshop Participant

Food

Sound Workshop with Randolf Pirkmayer

Material

During the artist residency in Vienna in autumn 2012, Johanna Dehio invited the public to participate in her research project „Furniture – Improvisation“. Starting from a setup of possible materials and processes, the furniture for the evening event was created conjointly.

The basic idea of the project was to confront people with the loss of their relationship with the objects they are surrounded with and thereby giving an impuls to rethink consumtion behaviour – by being part of the production process.

The setup of the gallery was made of deliberately pre-cut pieces of reused wooden sheets coming from former installations or art pieces of the museum, adding up to a mix of various shapes, surfaces and colours. People were invited and encouraged to find pieces they personally like and to combine them with the given techniques to create their own piece of furniture.

Scenography and Design of the meeting point of the exhibition „Mapping the Design World“ by belgian Curator Max Borka during RECIPROCITY Design Biennale in Liége, Belgium, 10/2012.

in cooperation with Max Borka and Dominik Hehl

Exhibition Design of display cabinets.
„Schreiben und Bauen, der Nachlass von Hermann Muthesius in Werkbundarchiv – Museum der Dinge“, Berlin 4/1012

“from makeshift solutions to product development”

Love them or hate them: one encounters makeshift solutions everywhere!

In her diploma thesis, Johanna Dehio questions what might be the unique beauty in makeshift objects; and furthermore, what could be learned from them for her own product development and adopted from their specific charm.

The project was based on a research and analysis of terms which apply to the use of makeshifts and their development, such as: improvisation, perfection and imperfection, and the esthetic of the imperfect, participation, play…
Readiness to improvise and an open-minded approach are important preconditions in her design method. The outset is the approach: honing the perception of the positive aspects of spontaneously created solutions and recognising their beauty. The result is a series of drafts describing a feeling of openness and ease.

The ‘Hockerbank’ ( = stool-bench) is inspired by makeshift seating. The series consists of several stools, which are supplemented by a plank with round cut-outs; and round tables, which can be transformed, in the same manner, into a long table.

The “Kleiderstiele” ( = clothing-sticks) constitute a simple form of coat rack: clothing is hung upon hooks located at the end of long rods which are, without any mounting, leaned against the wall.

The “Drahtbank”( = wire-bench) consists of metal frames of a stool, a chair and a table which are completed by the user combining them with one’ s preferred material; planks, boards, old wooden panels… The bench allows for many variations and asks for the user’s involvement.

Also inspired by makeshift situations, the “Wandwinkel”( = wall-angles), composed a sideboard and mirror, require only the correct inclination and the support of a wall.

Johanna Dehio was born in Munich and currently lives and works in Berlin. She studied product design at the University of Applied Sciences in Potsdam and the University of Arts in Berlin. Along the way she realised cultural projects and exhibitions in Berlin and Milan. She also gained practical experience working for Jerszy Seymour in Berlin and Richard Hutton in Rotterdam.

exhibition: october 4th to october 6th, 12 – 6 pm
opening: saturday, october 2nd, 7 – 10 pm
gallery: erstererster, Pappelallee 69, 10437 Berlin

„13 designers, 7 days, 1 material
Transalpinos dedicated theme this year is »Open Progress«. During one week in the gallery 13 designers will design, develop and make objects from wood veneer, collaborating and exhibiting the process. The group will serve as a source of inspiration and support. The German-Italian group Transalpino meets every year to collaborate on a joint topic, exhibiting in Berlin and Milan.“

Erstererster Gallery Berlin

Project team: erstererster, Christof Flötotto, Dominik Hehl, Anne Boenisch, Sven Funke, Benedigt Gnadt, Christoffer Martens, Valerie Otte, Johanna Dehio, Johannes Laue u.a.

„Transalpino 08 combines Italian and German customs, presenting and debating products in and around the theme of dining. A bicultural object study that focuses on the individual designer’s view of major and minor matters of hospitality. In addition to the exhibition, Transalpino is offering an exclusive dinner and discussion. Welcome!“

DMY, Berlin and Bar Basso, Milan.

Project team: erstererster, studio dotdotdot, Christof Flötotto, Peter Hils, Johanna Dehio, Masaru Ishikawa, Francesco Rodhrighiero, Johannes Klein, Anne Boenisch, Sven Funke, Benedigt Gnadt, Christoffer Martens, Valerie Otte, Karen Olze u.a.

„30 designers, both young and professionals, were invited to design a Coathanger, a low complex every-day-object which reflects the individual views on design and shows the variety in production-methods.

The exhibition titled TRANSALPINO 07 describes the transcultural exchange between Berlin and Milan. The aim of the project is to explore the design potential of the two countries: through workshops, meetings and performances that will help exchanging ideas, projects and intuitions.“

Project team: erstererster, studio dotdotdot, Christof Flötotto, Julian Appelius, Peter Hils, Johanna Dehio, Oliver Otto, Masaru Ishikawa, Francesco Rodhrighiero, Johannes Klein, Anne Boenisch, Sven Funke, Benedigt Gnadt, Christoffer Martens, Valerie Otte, Karen Olze u.a.

The lecture series „platform d“ deals with various themes touching all fields of design. It‘s main goal being on the one hand to encourage the exchange of experiences among designers, on the other hand the examination of interesting overlaps with other disciplines. Another important subject matter of the talks are the conditions and challenges in the different areas of design, focussing especially on the cultural environment of Berlin as a creative capital.

Among the guest lecturers:
Herbert Jakob Weinand (Designer und Prof. Berlin), Axel Kufus (Designer, Prof. UdK Berlin), Markus Keichel (Designer: Läufer&Keichel, Berlin), Judith Seng (Designer, Berlin), Peter Unzeitig (Designer, Hamburg), Christian Gänshirt (Architekt und Autor, Berlin), Norbert Palz & Robert Banovic (Targedesign, Berlin), Peter Hils (Designer, Berlin), Sohrab Zafari (Designer, Berlin), Rupert Kopp (Greige Design, Berlin), Flip Sellin (Designer, Coordination Berlin), Mark Kwami (Designer, Berlin)…