Elongation. Versatile, portable golf run.
Chiara Cherubin
This 5-metre-long golf run, made with deep blue felt, is not only a play area surrounded by 11 fir sticks; if the sticks are removed, the felt can be used to carry all the additional components on the go. The game set can be arranged in different ways to keep play interesting, regardless of the surface, space or number of players.
The resulting product is an evolutionary design approach to the Tyrolean artefact known as the Goggolori. This approach kept the idea of a game and evolved it into something that can be enjoyed by adults in the present day.
This picture shows some details of Elongation.
This is what the final, packed version looks like.
You can carry elongation whith you!
A tall blue and white column with a carved spiral tower topped by the drawing of a crowned face and a large circle at the bottom featuring 60 holes, all made from a block of pine wood. This is a representation of a 19th century traditional Tyrolean ball game.
A ball was inserted into the hole at the top of the structure. It would eventually end up on a number after going down the long spiral carved in the pillar structure.
Dating from between 1600 and 1914, it is likely that the blue and white colours and the crowned head are a mockery of the Bavarian monarchy, most probably King Maximilian II. This would be a satire of his absolutism, mimicking a severed head on a pike. The name of the object also supports this theory.
Products from Artefacts: Designing as Cultural Transmission.
