Célia Picard & Hannes Schreckensberger

Possible Tools

Possible Tooles is a series of speculative agricultural hand tools. The enigmatic shapes of the tools are declinations of traditional shapes discovered in different regions of Europe. Célia Picard and Hannes Schreckensberger want to instigate a way of producing hand tools based on ancestral knowledge, in dialogue with contemporary manufacturing technics. The project is poignant because the industrialization of agriculture has reduced drastically the diversity of tools to only a few shapes. Agriculture enables us to satisfy our need for nourishment, it as a field that is both pragmatic and highly symbolic. Agricultural hand tools are fascinating objects that connect us with the founding myth, with local or invented traditions, as well as with the possibility of self-sufficiency and alternative futures in agriculture. With Possible Tools, Célia Picard and Hannes Schreckensberger offer a new reading of agricultural hand tools and explores the potential of small scale food production. The project celebrates informed frugality.

2017, steel, biodegradable low-temperature thermoplastic, wood, mixed PP rope

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