Elodie Michaud & Rebecca Fezard's Desirable development selection

Elodie Michaud and Rebecca Fezard are founders of hors-studio specialized in material, surface and textile design. Designers and researchers, Elodie and Rebecca carry out R&D work through design, on the valorization of industrial and artisanal production scraps and waste. The transformation of these «waste resources» is achieved through the mastery of artisanal techniques combined with new technologies. hors-studio supports clients in a transversal way in the fields of scenography, product design, fashion and home and the creation of innovative materials. It is within their laboratory workshop that they invest in Material Design with recycled, crushed and micronized scraps, allowing them to create new materials and scenographies for the Luxury and Fashion sectors. In 2021, they are investing their practice in the extraction and use of natural binders. Concerned about the life cycle of the material, they propose an alternative to synthetic glues, the scourge of the recycling industry. By specializing in bio-materials, the challenge is to provide solutions to recycle infinitely and agglomerate the territory’s waste into new materials, based on natural and totally biodegradable glues. The promise of this ongoing research, in conjunction with chemistry laboratories and robotics design offices, is to be able to print any of the territory’s resources by 2023, using 3D extruder robotic arms, and thus considerably reduce «waste resources».