TOUCHY-FEELY NEWS

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MAY 2009

Our TRIGGER POINTS are part of the current exhibition at Kuenstlerdorf Schoeppingen showcasing the outcome of the KWW (Kunst Wissenschaft Wirtschaft) program. The installation is permanent and can be visited by appointment.
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APRIL 2009

FOUND SPACE TILES are featured in the ICON PRODUCT YEARBOOK, available with the 072 issue of ICON magazine.
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APRIL 2009

FOUND SPACE TILES have been added to the online material library of MATERIO. The material organization recently opened a new showroom in central Paris, at 74 rue du Faubourg Saint Antoine.
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APRIL 2009

FOUND SPACE TILES are featured in the April 2009 Newsletter of Foro de Diseño Cerámico.
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APRIL 2009

SPECIFICATION REFERENCE SHEETS for our FOUND SPACE TILES are now available online to DOWNLOAD (PDF). If you have trouble opening the file in your browser, try: right-click then save-as. Please don't hesitate to contact us with any questions.
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APRIL 2009

WHEN: Friday April 24th, 10am
WHERE: program, Invalidenstrasse 115, 10115 Berlin, Germany

For the second year, we have been invited by Dr.Mark Paterson (School of Geography, Archaeology and Earth Sciences, University of Exeter) to give a talk about our work at program initiative for art + architectural collaborations in Berlin-Mitte.
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APRIL 2009

This month, FOUND SPACE TILES have been featured in ICON and ONOFFICE magazines and in the MATERIAL INDEX 09 recently issued by Materia.
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MARCH 2009

FOUND SPACE TILES are featured in the 070 issue of icon magazine.
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FEBRUARY 2009

FOUND SPACE TILES have been added to the online database and material showrooms of RAVARA or RAW Sweden. The Gothenburg-based material organization recently opened a second showroom in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
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FEBRUARY 2009

Thanks to the editorial team at Design for Mankind mag for including coverage of our installation PUBLIC HEAT in the February issue.
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JANUARY 2009

TOUCHY-FEELY was featured on the designboom weblog.
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JANUARY 2009

WHAT: Pecha Kucha presentations by exhibitors of 20 Jahre Mauerfall - Freiräume
WHEN: Sunday January 4th, 3pm
WHERE: Temporäre Kunsthalle Berlin, Schlossplatz, Berlin-Mitte, Germany

"In the exhibition 20 Years since the Wall came down - 20 years of Free Space, Create Berlin presents the 20 most innovative interdisciplinary creative concepts from the Unesco awarded City of Design."

The exhibition runs from January 4th to 6th and opens with a Pecha Kucha, where each exhibitor will give a strictly timed 6-minute slide presentation. We are happy to be among the 20 teams exhibiting work in the exhibition and are scheduled to give our Pecha Kucha presentation around 5pm.
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NOVEMBER 2008

FOUND SPACE TILES have been included in ARCHITONIC, the online database for new and innovative architectural materials.
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OCTOBER 2008

FOUND SPACE TILES are available to view at Materia's Inspiration Centre, the well-known showroom in the town of Enter, the Netherlands, featuring new developments in architectural materials. Enter is along the A1 between Deventer and Almelo, and the Inspiration Centre is open by appointment. The centre also hosts events to show off their newest material samples. Sign up for their newsletter to keep up-to-date on open house and seminar dates.
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OCTOBER 2008

We're happy to be participating in conjunction08, co-hosted by the airspace contemporary art gallery, Stoke-on-Trent, England." The festival will feature existing works and new commissions from regional and international artists. The event will bring into use some of the many overlooked areas in and around the city centre, where interventions can take place, alongside more traditional gallery based shows at both airspacegallery and the Potteries Museum and Art Gallery."
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SEPTEMBER 2008

WHEN: Saturday, September 27th, 1:30-4:00pm
WHERE: Sherman Park Community Association (SPCA), 3526 W Fond du Lac, Milwaukee Wisconsin, USA

We are excited to be part of the fall IN:SITE public art program. We will be mounting an installation on a facade in Sherman Park, which will remain part of the building for six months. We will be present at the site for the installation "opening" on September 27th. In addition to IN:SITE, we would like to thank the Canada Council for the Arts, Greenheat Technology and CF Weber GmbH for supporting this project.
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SEPTEMBER 2008

Coinciding with the events planned for the fall IN:SITE installations, in which we'll take part,we have been invited to give a presentation about our practice at the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design. Open to all; hope to see you there!
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SEPTEMBER 2008

We were on tv! We're in Milwaukee Wisconsin receiving great support for and interest in our IN:SITE facade installation. Yesterday we were featured on the FOX6 Evening News. Watch the story on myFOX or on YouTube.
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SEPTEMBER 2008

We'd like to thank Create Berlin for making the recent Create Berlin goes London exhibition such a success. If you didn't make it to Brick Lane from September 18th-21st, you can get an overview of the exhibition, it's objectives and participants on the Create Berlin website.
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AUGUST 2008

Thanks to Ondine Park for the great coverage of our FOUND SPACE TILES on Space & Culture, "the international journal and weblog dedicated to social spaces of all kinds."
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JULY 2008

We're thrilled to announce that FOUND SPACE TILES are in production at cor unum
contemporary ceramics in the Netherlands. Ccontact us for more information.
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JULY 2008

Wir sind dabeI!

We're excited to announce that we are among the 20 Berlin-based designers chosen to represent the current creative pulse of the city in the exhibition Create Berlin goes London from September 18-21, 2008 at the Dray Walk Gallery on the premises of the Truman Brewery, Brick Lane, East London. The reigning mayor of Berlin, Klaus Wowereit, will personally be present at the opening event during London Design and Fashion week. See you in London!
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JUNE 2008

We have been awarded a grant to pursue an interdisciplinary pilot project Art/Science/Economy, funded by the Landesregierung Nordrhein-Westfalen. The grant will allow us to pursue our work with phase change material in collaboration with a main german manufacturer.
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JUNE 2008

TOUCHY-FEELY is moving! We are re-locating our Berlin office across the bridge to Neukölln. We also have a new second location in Aachen. As of July 1st, we can be found at: Ossastr. 15, D-12045 Berlin and Schildstr. 25, D-52062 Aachen.
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JUNE 2008

TOUCHY-FEELY FOUND SPACE TILES were recently featured on these design blogs/sites.
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MAY 2008

lLast week I was interviewed by Pierre Alexandre de Looz of Artinfo at the NY ICFF. The interview is now online! Here's a taste of de Looz's take on the tiles:

Canadian architect and [Assistant] Professor Stephanie Davidson has created a series of organically formed ceramic tiles, slated for production by corunum. While satisfyingly sculptural, they are really designed for extra comfort and massage-induced relaxation befitting a spa...Davidson wants to guide the user to an interactive experience with the tiles. "We had the lumbar ones installed, and they are really comfortable, because the concave part of the back can't reach flat surfaces unless you bend over. This is a subtle way of just leaning back and not making a spectacle of yourself to get that part of your back reached and rubbed." Read the full article on Artinfo.
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MAY 2008

A big thankyou to the organizers of the designboom mart at the NY ICFF last week for making so smoothly and enjoyably. It was the North American debut for TOUCHY FEELY FOUND SPACE TILES, and they were received with a great amount of enthusiasm, smiles, and even some physical experimentation. A report about the ICFF mart will be posted on designboom soon. For more information about the FOUND SPACE TILES, availability and promotional material, contact TOUCHY-FEELY.
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MAY 2008

ICFF countdown! Here's where you'll be able to find us, from May 17th - 21st. Hope to see you there!
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MAY 2008

Our proposal for the Van Alen Institute 2008/9 New York Prize Fellowship received an honourable mention.
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MAY 2008

FOUND SPACE TILES have been featured in the April 2008 newsletter from Materia, a vast database of new and innovative architectural materials.
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MARCH 2008

WHEN: Saturday March 22nd, 2pm
WHERE: program, Invalidenstrasse 115, 10115 Berlin, Germany

We have been invited by Dr.Mark Paterson (School of Geography, Archaeology and Earth Sciences, University of Exeter) to give a talk about our work at program initiative for art + architectural collaborations in Berlin-Mitte.
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JANUARY 2008

WHEN: Tuesday, January 29th, from 5-7pm
WHERE: european ceramic work centre, Zuid-Willemsvaart 215, 2511 's-Hertogenbosch, the Netherlands.

Doors will open to the public for our end presentation at the ekwc. Documentation of our research and fabrication processes, as well as the final ceramic tile prototypes, will be on display.
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DECEMBER 2007

The ceramic work being done by TOUCHY-FEELY at the ekwc was recently featured in a radio interview on the CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation) Montreal arts program, Cinq à Six. Cinq à Six is a program that explores new directions in culture in Quebec - directions in music, literature, theatre, architecture and design and in the business of art. Keep checking-in to touchy-feely news for the mp3 version of the interview!
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OCTOBER 2007

TOUCHY-FEELY has been selected to participate in the european ceramic work centre ceramics and architecture program. As an artist/architect-in-residence, we will carry-out a collaborative project with Montreal-based dancer-choreographer Katie Ewald. The 3-month project will investigate innovative applications for ceramics in architecture. Full documentation of the project will be posted here in the spring.
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AUGUST 2007

TOUCHY-FEELY has been awarded a travel grant from the Canada Council for the Arts to participate in IN:SITE Milwaukee’s public art program. The project, a temporary, site-specific building facade, will be installed in September 2008. Full documentation of the project will be posted here in the fall.
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AUGUST 2007

The catalogue illustrating the outcome of Disonancias 2006/07 is now available.The 225-page publication summarizes the R&D projects emerging out of the collaboration between artists and industry. Included in the catalogue is a dvd-documentary by Itxaso Diaz which shows interviews with all participants during the 6-month Disonancias process. The catalogue can be purchased directly from Disonancias.
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APRIL 2007

TOUCHY-FEELY has been selected to participate in IN:SITE Milwaukee’s public art program. IN:SITE is an arts organization creating opportunities for temporary public art in Milwaukee county. More specifically, IN:SITE supports projects that demonstrate the potential to affect their immediate surroundings. TOUCHY-FEELY will be mounting a site-specific facade installation in September 2008.
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MARCH 2007

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The work of TOUCHY-FEELY was exhibited at the International Centre of Contemporary Art, Donostia – San Sebastián Spain, at the beginning of this month. The exhibition, Disonancias Tour, coincided with lectures and panel discussions about art and innovation. A complete catalogue of the projects emerging from the six-month collaborations between artists and industry, will be released in the spring. For a catalogue, including a dvd/documentary which looks at each collaboration unfold, contact komunikazioa@disonancias.com.
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FEBRUARY 2007

TOUCHY-FEELY has been working at the ALFA ARTE factory in Eibar Spain, continuing to test materials and production processes for URBAN CUSHIONS public furniture. Resources were chosen based on what was available and in use in the factory. As a kind of experimentation theif, TOUCHY-FEELY took materials out of their lines of production, and applied them in different ways. Using conventional materials in unconventional ways meant the results were difficult to predict. The material tests, successes and failures, will be exhibited in March.

URBAN CUSHIONS is part of a Disonancias Art for Innovation initiative to facilitate international artists collaborating with established industries in the Basque region of Spain.
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FEBRUARY 2007While working in the Basque country, URBAN CUSHIONSreceived quite a bit of press. Articles can be found in EL KITTO (11.02), and EL DIARIO VASCO (11.02,13.02). There was also an interview broadcast on the Basque television network KTB. The photographer documenting all of the Disonancias artists is Clemente Bernad. Samples of his work, including a glimpse of URBAN CUSHIONS material samples can be seen on his website, www.clementebernad.com.
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FEBRUARY 2007

Disonancias Art for Innovation exhibition will take place on march 2 & 3 2007, at the International Centre of Contemporary Art, Donostia – San Sebastián Spain. a full schedule of events planned around the opening of the exhibition can be found on their website. the experimental processes and material tests of urban cushions will be on display at the exhibition. as working models, they will be there to touch and feel...