how can a picnic blanket for thirty people look like?

roll up – picnic blanket

Emma Sophie Hauser

Ten meter picnic blanket for thirty people, designed to bring all our objects together and create a social interaction.

A picnic can be considered as a cultural event, which used to take place only in the noblest houses, nowadays everyone does it. The shape of the picnic blanket plays an important role in such a cultural activity, it determines the social communication among the participants. Usually, the blanket is square in order to achieve optimal interaction with each person. But if the blanket is to be suitable for thirty people, a square is no longer suitable. Derived from our first Atelier meetings, where we sat together at a long table (like at the last supper), we came up with an idea for the ideal shape of the standard picnic blanket.

Here we have used Semi finished materials with its STANDARD dimensions. Construction fleece has the ideal properties for our picnic blanket. To reiterate the theme of standard, the ceiling of construction fleece is rollable and un rollable, with the help of a simple frame of hard cardboard.

A project made in the course

STANDARD

“I take an industrial object, an unquestionably beautiful object because it is absolute, I make a small intervention, I introduce a dissonant element, this is design. I wanted to highlight that the use of the semi-finished product where there is no aesthetic concern always gives rise to a perfect object” (Enzo Mari) In this semester starting from standard products given by the contemporary industry, unified at an international level, we will try to retrace the spirit that guided Enzo Mari to the realization of one of the most emblematic and radical projects in the history of Italian design: the putrella series. designed in 1958. This apparently simple object comes from deep reflections and gives us the opportunity to reflect on issues such as: efficiency and alienation of work, extractivism and geopolitics, sustainability of processes, logistics and last but not least, aesthetics.