d. lab^TM presents at the Salone Satellite in Milan “Objects Around the Tablescape“.

Why the title “Objects Around the Tablescape“?
Patrick Chia in conversation with Patrick Chia

• PC: Why the terms “objects” and not “products” or “sculpture”?
• PC: “Object ” is free - it can be any thing. It could come as it is. It does not come with the baggage and conforms that “product ” or “sculpture” has. It does not takes positions, it is non absolute.
• PC: Why ” table” + “scape” and not “desktop”?
• PC: Every thing that exists has a relationship with and impacts another. A tree does not only provide shade and fresh air on a landscape, it is also a measure of seasons. It is a measure of time, a measure of space and also a measure of our existence. The object does not exist by itself. Like in the landscape - trees or grass, everything is related in time and in space.
• PC: Why “around” and not “on”?
• PC: “On” is foreign and transplanted. “Around” seems more organic and it suggest s that the objects have been all along.
• PC: Please describe the concept, choice of material and process for each of the pieces.
• PC: We are interested in the innate quality of the material and its process; looking at a block of wood and asking it “what it would like to be? “. We are looking for an encounter that has a visceral resonance.

d. lab^TM is a commercial entity and trademark created by the Design
Incubation Centre to communicate its research and outcomes through
commercial distribution channels. d . lab^TM aims to examine and create
new possibilities and new relationships between man, object and his
environment .

The Design Incubation Centre is a design research laboratory which
investigates and develops new design tools to find new possibilities for
the practice of design. This is done through projects that analyze the
emerging and evolving human needs, technology and social trends.
The Design Incubation Centre is par t of the Depar tment of Architecture
at the School of Design and Environment in the National University of
Singapore.

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