"... Form rhizomes and not roots, never plant! Don't sow, forage! Be neither a One nor a Many, but multiplicities! Form a line, never a point! Speed transforms the point into a line. Be fast, even while standing still! Line of chance, line of hips, line of flight. Don't arouse the General in yourself! Not an exact idea, but just as idea (Godard). Have short-term ideas. Make maps, not photographs or drawings. [...] A rhizome doesn't begin and doesn't end, but is always in the middle, between things, interbeing, intermezzo."

from Rhizome by Deleuze & Guattari

the material below, developed for vitra, reminds me of such notion of a rhizome which is an undercurrent of the project. systemic, emergent, multipurpose, working across scales, without spine (for better or worse), without a beginning or an end.









Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec’s 2004 Algues (French for “algae”) is a biomimetic sculptural system based on a multibranched plastic module that can be attached to other modules with plastic pegs through its nineteen ringlets. Algues may be used to create flexible room partitions, curtains, sculpture, etc.

Algues ­ 2004
Injected polyamide
300 x 270 cm
Vitra, Switzerland
© Paul Tahon and R & E Bouroullec
Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec