Fashion, art and nature all inspire Belgium-based industrial designer Hind Rabii. These might be unlikely influences on industrial design, but then Rabii is no ordinary lighting designer. She might have studied industrial engineering at the Institut Supérieur Industriel in Verviers in eastern Belgium, but she doesn’t put technology on a pedestal. ‘Technology is always integrated into our creations, but it’s a means of creating our designs, never an end in itself,’ she asserts. ‘Lighting designers have traditionally relied heavily on technology, resulting in a technological exhibitionism that has distanced products from human beings,’ continues this maverick designer, who expresses her views passionately and forcefully. She believes this fetishisation of technology and functionalism has suppressed the poetic, emotional elements of design. ‘Our engineer friends brought us solutions that lack any element of fantasy. And we’ve readily adopted them. My question is: where the hell did poetry… continue
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