Raw Senses
The Office
RAW SENSES is an exhibition format focussed on supporting innovative contemporary designers and presenting them in Switzerland. To promote and uphold new design visions, we work to nurture contemporary creative practitioners interested in the physical manifestation of objects. In temporary exhibition spaces and through thematic approaches, Raw Senses provides a platform to address questions of mass production, consumption and the conditions of contemporary making. Above all, Raw Senses intends to establish a sustainable space and platform for experience and collaboration. Raw Senses believes in the value of design to create engagement and help make sense of the complexities and challenges of today.
The Office brings together contemporary designers and architects from Switzerland and beyond to celebrate and promote interdisciplinary and experimental creative work. From the ready-made and playful to the technical and minimalist, each work on display foregrounds objects and furniture pieces that are not solely defined by their function but exemplify vision and exploratory processes. Alluding to the changing role of the office—from a space with standardised fit-outs to a more hybrid and social space for collaboration—this year’s exhibition highlights the search for alternatives and counter-strategies to respond to today's conditions/ challenges.
The display in the large open-plan office with a view over Zürich includes furniture pieces and objects that address topics of re-purpose and re-configuration; material qualities and production methods; modularity, and multi-use. Whether conceived as prototypes, gallery pieces or custom furniture, they all demonstrate potential beyond the standardised / prescribed, opening up new ways to shape our relationship with the ‘things’ around us.














Raw Senses “The Office” presents:
AATB (CH/FR) / Alexandra Gerber (CH/UK) / Angeliki Papavasileiou (CH/GR) / Ben Ganz (CH/USA) / Daniel Durnin (UK) / Elissa Lacoste (FR) / Gregory Tsantilas (CH/GR) / Haus Otto (DE) / Hot Wire Extensions (CH) / Laurin Schaub (CH) / Meubles Meldem (CH) / Office for Ordinary Objects (CH/DE) / Panter & Tourron (CH) / Raphael Kadid (CH) / Reto Andri Objekte (CH) / Robert A. Wettstein (CH) / Salienti (CH/IT) / Sanchez Morgillo (CH) / Sébastien El Idrissi (CH) / Stéphanie Hornig (CH/AT) / Studio Marthins (CH/DK) / Studio Piccoli (CH) / Tino Seubert (DE/UK) / Tobias Bieri (CH)
Raw Senses is a collective initiated by Fabio Hendry (Hot Wire Extensions), Sebastian Vargas (Profiler.world), Giovanna Lisignoli (Second Nature Projects), Sarah Quan (Villa Nomad).
Creative Direction: Sebastian Vargas / Films: Kairos Studio / Exhibition views by Oliver Kummerli