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Tactile Narratives brings together designers who attend closely to the subtle ways matter itself shapes objects, processes, and meaning in design. Instead of treating materials as neutral, they explore how surfaces, fractures and textures carry their own histories and suggest new directions.
WOODEN STONES
Florian Knöbl works with wood left behind from felled city trees, carefully sanding the irregular chunks into stone-like forms that follow the natural contours of each piece. Rather than reshaping them entirely, he works with what’s already there, highlighting the structure, weight, and history embedded in the wood itself.
FRAGMENTS
Lena Ringel casts ceramics using modular moulds made from broken plaster parts. The resulting vessels take on the fractured forms of the mould itself, allowing the plasters’s own behaviour to guide the outcome.
SURROGATE WOOD
Lukas Klein reworks synthetic wood boards, rounding their edges to expose the fibreboard beneath printed veneers. By peeling away the illusion of wood grain, he repositions surface as something performative, and the structure underneath as part of the story.
