From September 4 to 15, 2019, the Uruguay Forest Producers Association’s booth at ExpoPrado 2019 featured an exhibition of wooden objects designed and crafted by students and graduates of the Bachelor of Industrial Design program at Universidad ORT Uruguay.
The exhibition featured works by students in the Industrial Design 1 course, a third-semester class taught by Industrial Designer Oscar Aguirre and Industrial Designer Carlos Galarraga. It illustrated the production process carried out in our university’s design labs through images and samples showcasing the various stages involved in woodworking.
This initiative serves as an example of how design and research can add value to domestically produced eucalyptus and pine wood.
The selected volumetric composition pieces are by students Isabel Álvarez, Nicolás Armand Ugon, Milagros Bonet, Marcos Dutrenit, Karen Lieberman, Abril Mederos, Jerónimo Picerno, and Paula Spinatelli.
In addition, samples of biomaterials cultivated using edible fungi and organic wood waste were included; this process was carried out at the ORT Biotechnology Laboratory as a result of an initiative by biotechnologists, biologists, and industrial designers Felipe Machado, M.Sc., Gabriela da Rosa, M.Sc., and Guadalupe Sonneveld, B.Sc.
In addition, the selection included products by students and graduates sold both locally and abroad, such as the Criolla armchair and table by Federico Martínez Bariani (a student in the Bachelor’s Program in Industrial Design) for Talabartería Las Nazarenas, created as part of the Recreación18 Integrative Project; the Calma and Hagakure tables, and the Ánima armchair by the Elemento studio (by Industrial Design faculty member Pablo D’Angelo and Industrial Design graduates Nicolás Noblia, Sebastián Granotich, and Santiago Romero); and tabletops by Rumo (by Industrial Design graduate Andrés Espina).