Cherry Pear Marathon

Redesigning broken chairs

10 Aug 2013

Do you still sit on your broken chair? You could have brought it to Mediamatic before the 10th to give it a second chance. A group of twelve Latin American designers gave broken chairs a new identity in a design marathon. Between 11 and 17 you could see how seemingly worthless furniture changed into new, freshly designed products. The Cherry Pear project was part of the Trash Lab.

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The artists at work - The designers began by taking apart their projects, and then later reassembling them. Marcela Szwarc

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All you needed to visit the Cherry Pear Marathon was a Club Mediamatic membership (€5 for 4 weeks). Location: VOC-kade 10, 1018 LG Oostenburg Amsterdam. The Trash Lab was part of the Freezing Favela, a temporary city in and around Mediamatic Fabriek.