Ivan Kasner

Ivan Kasner turned ten natural objects to stone for his design-school graduation project, Petrifying. “You never know whether your design will survive even a generation," he says. “With these objects, I at least know that they could." He borrowed a vacuum oven from a research institute to carry out the fossilisation and says he also likes collaborating with big industrial companies: “They have money for researching new materials and production processes."

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Artistic activities

2005 - Started Studio Ivan Kasner, Zaandam, the Netherlands; designed for Studio’s Müller en Van Tol, Amsterdam
2004 - Conducted Moving TPG, a workshop with TPG managers with the goal of designing a lobby for the company headquarters
2003 - Ran the Collapsible Seat workshop with Barber Osgerby, Ecole cantonale d’art de Lausanne (ECAL), Switzerland
2001 - Participated in the Respect is meer dan een woord forum and peace workshop with Marcel Wanders, Nannet van der Kleijn and Roos Nabben