The Boisbuchet summer workshops are held in Lessac, France every year. Organised in cooperation with the Vitra Design Museum and The Centre Pompidou. They are an invitation for designers and makers to work with a group of people from all over the world in a unique and beautiful location. This year I decided to work with unique materials for a workshop titled PLASTIC.

As well as the week long project using POLYMORPH I was also provided with a large quantity of the unique self curing rubber SUGRU, which can be moulded and bonded onto pretty much anything. The team wandered around the buildings in the Domaine fixing, adapting and altering things they found. (Sorry about the antique furniture Alexander... apparently it comes off with a razor).

The title of the workshop is a word play, as plastics are normally something that we receive from industry as unchangeable and preformed, but here we worked directly with it as though it was plasticene. I wanted to think about plastic as a mental process rather than a received form.

Thank you to everyone who took part: Jian, Marek, Maria, Junpei, Felix, Ingrid, Cemal, Sonia, Sergio and Tim; also to the various guys in the workshop who dipped in to experiment. I had a great time working with all of you.

Thank you to Boisbuchet for the amazing venue, and to Carlo Cialli for some amazing photographs. Photographs included here are also taken by me and Cemal Okten who took part in the workshop. (I apologise that these photos are so jumbled up - there were too many interesting things going on!)

Thank you most of all to SUGRU, it’s great stuff, and I think you should buy some here

Please also have a look at the Polymorph page to see what we did with the unique low temperature thermoplastic.