My Little Factory, glass and young designers

My Little Factory is the materialization of an idea that runs through the Fundació Centre del Vidre de Barcelona and the young designers study Mermelada Estudio.  Juan Miguel Juárez, Laura Blasco and  Álex Estévez, are the members of this high profile study, and they’ll explain us the key factors of My Little Factory, a groundbreaking workshop to train the new creative individuals, that find in glass material a great ally.

WHY?

“It is something that has been in our minds some time: A theory about the change, the one we call Industrial Renaissance, which is only a transition of industry to craftsmanship, but with the knowledge of the first. In these moments short series of pieces can be realize without the need of huge economic investments. On the other hand, there isn’t a brutal demand of the consumers. People want lots of little. Lots of design, but little quantity. It’s a trend that is being fully lived in cities like London, Berlin and Budapest. Many studies get together, to sale their products in one space.

There is a more tight and tangible bond between the craftsman and the designer. There is a comeback to the Romanticism of things, to the unique or almost unique piece. And we say comeback because in the Spanish case, there are many editor companies that initially worked in this way. We need craftsmanship, the one that existed abundantly in Barcelona, and that now is going to have a leading role in the field of design creation.”

HOW?

“In My Little Factory we want the students to create their own piece of glass and become capable to produce it. They will mark the standards. The Fundació Centre del Vidre de Barcelona and us will accompany them in the process, and will direct it at all time. We want to transmit that the designer is able to do it!  The Fundació supports this idea and is an ideal framework to conduct this concept.

One of the great attractiveness of the workshop is that students always win: the initial investment in the course is recovered, for example, if they are able to sale the pieces created and to have a complete documentation of the design (a catalog, a broadcast, a physical presence of their idea, a closed product). They’ll benefit from the experience in many ways. The glass, also, is a highly attractive and stimulating material which always arouses a designer’s creative attitude. The combination seems perfect and the results may be seen from June 17^th to July 1^st in DomesticoShop, store located in the Born district of Barcelona.”