Bill was invited to participate in their most recent research project into weaving cumulating in an exhibit at this year’s Design Shanghai expo. For our focus we concentrated on weaving as a structural system, while tensile structures were the most obvious, we explored pneumatic structures, concrete impregnated textiles and eventually obsessed ourselves with granular jamming as a way to give woven materials dynamic structural rigidity.

MRT design was responsbile for the design of Villeroy & Boch’s booth at the expo showing off their latest innovation and products. Inspired by Villeroy & Boch’s long history (275 years old this year) and their start in a small town in Germany. We designed a very blue little town in the middle of the exhibit that invites designers to come in and explore VB world.