As part of an interdisciplinary experimental workshop, second-year Bachelor students in Jewellery and Accessory Design and first-year Bachelor students in Fashion Design at HEAD – Geneva were invited to explore the relationship between architectural space and wearable creation.

This workshop, based on an immersive experience at an iconic location — Villa “Le Lac” by Le Corbusier in Vevey — enabled students to develop a formal and functional reflection on the body, volume, memory, and material. Architecture, seen both as a source of inspiration and as a structural framework, became the starting point for a sensitive creative process in which garments, jewellery, and accessories embody a dialogue between constructed forms and wearable forms.

The workshop encouraged students to break away from the conventions of traditional object design, imagining accessories with redefined functions and aesthetics. Through object transformation exercises and hands-on experimentation with volume, proportion, and materials, each student explored diverse design approaches to create a personal collection of accessories—hybrid, poetic, or radical.

In parallel, students were introduced to the fundamentals of leatherwork through a hands-on project: designing and crafting a bag from start to finish, covering all technical stages of production.

Between architecture, storytelling, and design, this workshop anchored creative practice in a reflection on function, memory, and gesture, while nurturing a sensitive and critical approach to wearable objects.

Workshop conceived and led by Magdalena Brozda, Pauline Famy, and Josiane Martinho.