A textile shopping channel and garments that draw attention to the issue of female sexual harassment are included in Dezeen's latest school show by students at the Lucerne School of Art and Design.

Also in the undergraduate show is a project that strives for textiles to become objects used for mindfulness and another that critiques the use and meaning of wood as a sustainable material.

Lucerne School of Art and Design

School: Lucerne School of Art and Design, Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts
Courses: Bachelor Textile Design
Tutors: Marion Becella Neff, Franziska Born, Brigitt Egloff, Lilia Glanzmann, Doris Kurzmeyer, Tina Moor, Daniela Zimmermann, Jonas Leysieffer, Alexis Schwarzenbach, Caecilia Anderhub and Clara Sollberger

School statement:

"An intelligent photovoltaic facade, a resource-saving carpet or Billie Eilish's glimmering Grammy outfit – textile design has many facets. Our textile designers invent the world of fibres, fabrics, and finishes with their sense of colour and pattern, texture and structure, functionality and sensuality.

"We combine materials with designs and mix disciplines. Using this hybrid process, we develop forward-looking ideas and aesthetic products – for fashion, architecture, theatre, industrial design, visual arts, interiors and research."

Remember – a collection To remember by Samina Burtschi

"In times when beach strolls can only take place in our minds, the clothing collection Remember aims to replicate our longing for far-away places. The design represents shells – miniature treasures enveloped in fondest memories. The curves and colours of the shells are translated into textiles from donated clothing.

"Remember is also intended to promote a sensibility for learning, to recognise the value of clothing anew. They not only protect us but also store memories, which is why all of the donated and reprocessed clothes are archived on Instagram along with their histories."

Student: Samina Burtschi
Course: BA Textile Design
Tutors: Franziska Born and Jonas Leysieffer
Email: samina.burtschi[at]gmx.ch

Re:see by Andrea Cavegn

"How can design reinforce the relationship between the textile and the viewer? Starting from this question, the collection Re:see addresses 'changes in perspective'. The collection explores how looking at textiles can become a conscious, mindful act.

"Through their design, the textiles encourage repeated discovery in that the motifs only become apparent when viewed from particular angles. This effect lies in its halftones, which are applied to the textile using inkjet printing and jacquard knitting. The collection not only obliges the viewers to change their spatial position surrounding the fabric but also rethink our attitudes towards textile."

Student: Andrea Cavegn
Course: BA Textile Design
Tutors: Marion Becella and Jonas Leysieffer
Email: cavegn.andrea[at]icloud.com

A Sense of Matter – A research into materials by Hanna Egger

"Material means more than simply a raw substance. How we obtain, process and dispose of the material says a lot about how we perceive ourselves as humans and our relation to nature.

"Using artistic-material research, the project focuses on wood in textile design and explores its transformative and multi-dimensional character, reaching beyond the purely material level.

"What if we were to encounter material with more respect and humility and to use it more intelligently? If we were to view trees as more than just material resources and air filters and ask ourselves again what a tree is and stands for?"

Student: Hanna Egger
Course: BA Textile Design
Tutors: Franziska Born and Jonas Leysieffer
Email: hanna.egger[at]sunrise.ch

Insert explicit content here – A Collection of Ideas on the Subject of Sexual Harassment on the Internet by Chiara Elspass

"Unfortunately, sexual harassment to women is a widespread problem in virtual space. Despite its ubiquitous nature, it would seem that this phenomenon has largely failed to find a place in our spoken culture. For this reason, my project draws attention to the issue. It aims to free the conversation from taboos and offers food for thought.

"The main focus lies in verbal insults and is primarily realised with written words as the design element. As an antithesis to the seriousness of the topic, the textiles – created using embroidery and printing – also contain empowering and affirmative words. As such, the work represents an attempt to show solidarity with those affected by it."

Student: Chiara Elspass
Course: BA Textile Design
Tutors: Daniela Zimmermann and Jonas Leysieffer
Email: chiara.elspass[at]gmx.ch

Weaving Dimension by Sonja Hüppi

"When manufactured, weaving appears flat. It is only in the process of cutting and sewing that the flatness can assume a three-dimensionality. This project examines how dimensions can be generated into the textile via the weaving process.

"The aspect of dimension is explored via the design parameters of multiple weaves, voids, drawstrings and specifically selected weft connections. By cancelling the colour, the project focuses purely on technique while defining the research stages.

"After evaluating each arrangement, the complexity is increased by applying new combinations. The results form the potential basis for a variety of technical and fashion applications of dimension, minus offcuts and with fewer processing steps."

Student: Sonja Hüppi
Course: BA Textile Design
Tutors: Marion Becella, Jonas Leysieffer
Email: socatharina[at]gmail.com

On Est Ensemble by Anaïs Meyer

"Textiles embody culture. We use them to articulate our sense of belonging. In our globalised world, more and more people feel they belong to more than one cultural space.

"The goal of my work is to express this multiple belonging so that those involved can be represented. It is aimed at people who identify both with the city of Basle and West African culture, which I have combined in a cloth.

"The source of inspiration for this is West African band weaving. Using warp print and weaving-technique patterns, motifs from Basle and West Africa are brought together. On Est Ensemble is both a vision and a statement in one – we are together."

Student: Anaïs Meyer
Course: BA Textile Design
Tutors: Marion Becella and Alexis Schwarzenbach
Email: lor.textile[at]gmail.com

TYvee Shopping by Yvee Nogara

"In the first phase of the work, textile-based objects were produced, combined and amended using used fabrics and leftover materials. Then, in a second step, medially staged in the style of the continuous loop of products presented on teleshopping in the 90s, the result is a satirical TYvee Shopping channel.

"Set in a spatial scenery, actors present the objects of desire for sale in an entertaining format. Using an exaggerated stylistic aesthetic, the viewers are seduced and made into accomplices.

"The topics of sustainability and our consumer habits regarding textiles are staged in a satirical and impactful way. As such, TYvee Shopping belongs to the field of critical or speculative design."

Student: Yvee Nogara
Course: BA Textile Design
Tutors: Daniela Zimmermann and Jonas Leysieffer
Email: yvee.nogara[at]gmx.ch

Pool 17 – Reminiscences of an Indoor Swimming Pool by Andrea Nüesch

"For all of us, chance encounters with things can evoke personal memories and associations that we instantaneously emotionally identify with them. However, is it possible to stir up reminiscences with impersonal objects?

"In the project Pool 17, I have taken my inspiration from my grandparent's empty, disused indoor pool to produce a semi-finished textile collection. Numerous details from the current state of the pool and individual motifs that are no longer there are reshaped to make my designs capture the feel of the space and arouse memories. In the process, the project works at a visual, tactile and olfactory level to potentially trigger memories in the recipients themselves."

Student: Andrea Nüesch
Course: BA Textile Design
Tutors: Daniela Zimmermann and Caecilia Anderhub
Email: andy.nueesch[at]gmx.ch

Just be that princess by Nina Orgiu

"Our social image is marked by stereotyped binary and heteronormative notions. Colours and forms are thought of as being male or female. But we, as humans, are not either/or, rather both-at-once. It is also interesting that explicitly female characteristics are socially more critically perceived than male ones.

"I have employed precisely this exaggerated gender-female image in the form of a princess. The construed figure of a princess has influenced thousands of people and still does.

"She is a figure that excites dreams and flights of imagination. My everyday costume aims to give people the possibility to immerse themselves in this gender-female princess realm in which they can express a part of their personality."

Student: Nina Orgiu
Course: BA Textile Design
Tutors: Franziska Born and Alexis Schwarzenbach
Email: nina[at]orgiu.ch

I feel good by Célina von Moos and Laura Schwyter

"Since the beginning of the pandemic, physical contact has become associated with fear and discomfort. It has become increasingly restricted to operating cold, smooth touch screens. In our project, we have taken a playful approach to textiles and product ideas for living spaces.

"The objects are produced using leftover textile materials and are primarily meant as an invitation to touch soothingly. The project is based on a belief that to strengthen our mental wellbeing, we need a more conscious physical contact with the environment. The result is a feel-good landscape that stimulates the senses and makes us mindful of the immediate momentariness."

Student: Célina von Moos and Laura Schwyter
Course: BA Textile Design
Tutors: Franziska Born, Daniela Zimmermann and Alexis Schwarzenbach
Email: celi.moos[at]bluewin.ch

Partnership content

This school show is a partnership between Dezeen and Lucerne School of Art and Design. Find out more about Dezeen partnership content here.