Exquisite Design: Collective Narratives and Material Transformation
This course explores glass as a vessel for collective imagination. Through techniques including warm glass (fusing, slumping, open face casting), cold shop (cutting, carving, sandblasting), and engraving, students will collaboratively transform found objects and images into layered, poetic artifacts. Inspired by surrealist methods like the exquisite corpse, the course embraces process, intuition, and transformation. Participants will work across each other’s projects, creating hybrid pieces that shift from the 2D to the 3D and back. Outcomes include conceptual glass objects, process-based installations, and collective experiments in form and meaning. Optional elements include drawing sessions, writing prompts, and performative presentations.
Luisa Restrepo Moreno is a Colombian designer based in Mexico City, with a background in industrial design specializing in warm glass techniques, creating pieces from contemporary jewelry to collectible design and performative actions. Her practice is characterized by an exploration of form, rhythm and pattern, maintaining a commitment to quality and meticulous attention to detail. She is now being showcased at Angulo Cero Gallery as part of their ten-year anniversary cycle and is a recent winner of The Glass Prize, Bullseye Artist, UK.
Pedro Cerisola is a Mexican-Cuban designer whose work explores modular structures and geometric systems through functional objects. He leads Estudio Cerisola (CDMX/Madrid) and teaches at UDIT Madrid, focusing on collaborative, process-driven design. His work has been exhibited in major museums across Mexico and Europe. In 2024, he was Director of the Professional Area at the 9th Ibero-American Design Biennial (BID), where he also curated Diseño Expandido, highlighting interdisciplinary practices in Ibero-American design.
