EMMA
COGNé

Emma Cogné is a French designer who lives and works between France and Belgium, where she graduated from the textile design department of La Cambre in Brussels. Her body of work finds its process in the revaluation and transformation of used materials to highlight their intrinsic value. The textile medium is for her a means to widen the sensorial qualities that are specific to spatiality while engaging the personal experience of users. By showing the bare structures and layers of our houses, she reveals the unique aspects of matter and color as an attempt to reconnect humans to their built environment. Objects and textiles that she makes articulate transitions between the inside and the outside, opening new perspectives and aesthetic materializations of space. Guided by the desire of making, her recent projects are collaborations that focus on the urban and contextual challenges found on the sites where the works unfold. This practice of the field allows her to enable a dialogue between craftsmanship, art, and architecture and is what drives her everyday research.