La Cambre/ Ecole nationale supérieure des arts visuels (Brussels, Belgium)
Designer: Quentin Gervaise
Dimensions: 25 x 25 x 3 cm
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Project Description
A set of coloured steel angle brackets for understanding and modelling angles.
Geometry governs our world and the way we use it. But teaching geometry to our youngest frequently involves very abstract mathematical concepts. Not all children have this capacity for abstraction.
This project aims at materialising the concept of geometric angles, making them tangible so that every child can experience and handle those abstract ideas in reality.
The project comes as a kit containing a range of coloured steel angle brackets. The kit introduces right, acute and obtuse angles, as well as the concept of complementary and supplementary angles and the construction of triangles and quadrilaterals.
La Cambre/ Ecole nationale supérieure des arts visuels
The Ecole nationale supérieure des arts visuels of La Cambre is a school of art and design that offers a wide array of educational programs, both at Bachelor’s and Master’s levels. The school is located in Brussels on the premises of the 16th century “La Cambre” Abbey, from which it gets its name.
La Cambre was founded in 1927 by the famous designer and architect Henry van de Velde and a group of avant-garde Belgian artists of the time. Since its early beginnings, art, architecture and design have been intimately linked as part of the same creative movement and process, in accordance with the Bauhaus model.
The Industrial Design Department is organised as three-year Bachelor and two-year Master programs. Each student can benefit from the richness of artistic thinking developed by the other 16 departments, ranging from drawing, painting and sculpture to photography, animation, set design, ceramics, textiles, fashion, graphic design and interior design. In addition to the specialised design studio, which also includes technical and technological courses, a number of trans-disciplinary workshops, courses and seminars (both compulsory and optional) are offered in the arts field (video, performance, digital media, etc.), as well as in history, art criticism, philosophy, aesthetics, semiotics, literature, law, etc.
The industrial design program also offers industrial collaborations, international competitions and traineeships in the industry or design studios.
La Cambre is a member of the Brussels-Wallonia European University Pole and a partner, within the transdisciplinary platform ARTes, of the Brussels Conservatory and the INSAS (National Institute of the Performing Arts).