Failure

The objects created by Lina-Marie Köppen are all failures in one way or another, but the way in which they fail is intended to empower people. Köppen says, “By ridding objects of a predeter-mined ‘perfect’ function, we can be free to discover them and rediscover ourselves in the pro-cess. Learn to Unlearn is a design ideology expressed in a series of ambiguous objects that overthrow the unconsciously learned behaviour and expectations governing our perception. The family of objects that developed from my thesis is largely based on the redefinition of furniture archetypes. Each object is an open invitation to the human to determine its use. […] Only when objects become alive in this way are we stimulated to explore new possibilities.”