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Fernanda Tosta.Nomade Furniture is an open-source furniture system designed to enhance the use of urban spaces, prioritizing women and young people. Designed by women for women, it is a line of modular, demountable furniture that is easy to assemble and transport.It offers a range of functionalities and diverse uses – these pieces of furniture include: tables and benches, benches and loungers, racks and display cases; stages and coverings; bleachers and platforms; signage and safety items.
The project's main challenge is to find the simplest way to build, transport, and store the products without compromising their aesthetic and structural quality. It can also be used for a wide variety of events, including: woodworking workshops; food fairs; book fairs; bazaars and flea markets; slam poetry performances; and other outdoor artistic events.
One of the issues that will be prioritized in the project is ergonomics in relation to body measurements outside the standard used in the industry, that is, female bodies. The workbenches and chairs will be designed for the female body and may allow adjustments for other body types. Due to the difficulty in finding workbenches and tools designed for female body and hand measurements, it is important to review and generate a table of comfortable measurements for work performed by people participating in events that may last up to 12 hours.
The system's proposal, in addition to developing products that will enhance public spaces for events, will also offer possible layouts for use that suggest an organization of flows to assist in setup and provide the maximum possible forms of encounters.
Function
Fernanda Tosta.Guidance
fernanda tostaAssistance
marina da silva - andré montilhaParticipants
tiago schutzer - rilbert andrade - rany sousa - larissa fujinaga - kaô - heitor vallim - carolina arbex - camila ugino - brunner guimaraes - andre ryujiPhotographs
bruno novaes[Oficina Oito - São Paulo - August 2021]
A relational and collaborative space for artistic-educational practices. The make-believe school happens through the collection, creation, and experience of documents, drawings, texts, and practices that I have been producing from observation and insertion in different teaching and learning models.
A school of play. Playing at school. In this place that blurs the lines between reality and fiction, art and education, work and play, I think as if we were relearning to read, reinterpreting the world we live in, rediscovering the things that surround us, and rethinking the relationships we build. Imagining new schools for the present, this first edition of the make-believe school presents itself as a place for artistic and educational practices, an invitation to encounter and to experience.
Thinking about the desire and need to accomplish-do-together, it goes hand in hand with different partners, establishes itself in backyards-garages-backyards and is an award-winning project made possible by ProAC LAB 2020. Carpentry class: The first activity of the program took place in the formation of a group that went through a module of seven meetings to think, discuss, design and materialize the furniture for the make-believe school. Thinking about new schools for our time, the people who participated in this workshop collectively developed different theoretical and practical activities to make the pieces that make up the school in this edition.
Marquetry Auctioned
Function
Fernanda TostaFor
Silo Arte e Latitude RuralBased on true stories. Collage of wooden planks inspired by the stories of the Boto do Dique Vila Gilda ~ an area of stilt houses in Santos, October 2020.
The artwork being auctioned holds special meaning as part of a benefit auction supporting the restoration of the Silo School at Silo – Arte e Latitude Rural in Serrinha do Alambari, Rio de Janeiro. This initiative is tied to a crowdfunding campaign launched on the Benfeitoria platform in 2021, which was created to renovate an old club building that became the center of the organization’s cultural and educational activities. Through the collective effort of more than 300 supporters and contributions from 20 donating artists, the campaign successfully raised funds to help transform the aging structure into a vibrant space for art, science, and community learning, reinforcing the organization’s mission to foster exchange between rural and urban knowledge systems.
Product design
Furniture
Nomadism
Function
Fernanda TostaSponsorship
A Cidade Precisa de VocêThe Neighborhood Activator Device is a multifunctional trailer that functions as a traveling platform for art, citizenship, and encounter. Designed to operate in diverse territories, it brings infrastructure and methodology to actions that promote listening, belonging, and the transformation of public spaces through collective action.What is it?It's a mobile structure equipped with a sound system, adaptable furniture, workshop tools, floor toys, and solar panels. Its design allows for the quick assembly of spaces for conviviality and creation anywhere in the city.
How does it work? The actions are designed based on a participatory diagnosis carried out with the local community. Based on the demands and potential of the territory, the device acts as a catalyst for ideas, encounters, and urban interventions.What do we do with the Device? With the Neighborhood Activator Device, we hold discussion circles on active citizenship, public life, and tactical urbanism; urban explorations for participatory diagnoses; ...and a series of practical workshops, such as co-creation of urban projects, construction and prototyping of wooden furniture, artistic interventions and collective painting, planting and care for the territory, as well as recreational activities and urban games.
Why activate? The Neighborhood Activator Device integrates the methodology of the "The City Needs You" Institute to encourage care for the common good, strengthen neighborhood ties, and activate public space as a place for learning, coexistence, and action.
https://www.acidadeprecisa.org/atividade/dispositivoativador
The article highlights the work of designers Giulia Fagundes, Bartira Lobo, Mariana Rodrigues, Fernanda Tosta, and Monique Santos, presenting how their creations contribute to contemporary home and décor practices through objects, furniture, and spatial thinking rooted in identity, material research, and everyday life. Curated within Casa Claudia, the feature celebrates Black designers whose practices expand the narratives of Brazilian design and domestic spaces.
https://claudia.abril.com.br/casa-claudia/designers-negras-decoracao-casa/