A platform to celebrate the joy and the potential of making prototypes, with the aim to empower students at HEAD-Genève in an entrepreneurial capacity.

We know that the design process is often alternating between accidental discoveries and intentional experiments. It is a fun slackline that starts with a direction and keeps stretching as we progress. To celebrate the unfinished, spontaneous, accidental, vernacular beauty of the prototyping process is our motivation. Inviting the audience to engage in a dialog with the ideas and thoughts of students against the collective landscape of HEAD-Genève. The project initiates a dialog centred on the cultural capital of student bodies, with the idea of questioning sustainability of consumption of art & design today. Nothing is final, everything is always a work in progress. The project started as a reaction to seeing prototypes endangered due to lack of resources / space and as a result trashed or broken down after the project / semester ended. What if these prototypes find a way to thrive?

The first step in this platform is to collect prototypes, submitted by students of HEAD-Geneva. These objects are then stored in a digital archive. The archive is a documentary by-product of the design process retained for their long-term value. Not all prototypes find their way into archives, perhaps it's the ones that hold value outside of their project context. The best part is that it's ever-growing, can be accessed anytime and serves as the basis for the next (more exciting) step. All the objects here can be viewed, but not purchased.

The next step takes the shape of a temporary 3 days pop-up shop, which is a bi-annual event. We curate the prototypes in a pop-up sale, open to everyone. The pre-decided price for products can be paid in cash or by Twint. 85% of the sale amount is for the student (maker of the object) and the balance is directed to the costs of running the pop-up shop.