Studio Eidola
Working with mineral by-products such as stone dusts, quarry slurries, gravel fines, Studio Eidola traces how materials move through extraction, processing, construction, and disposal. These materials are approached not as passive resources, but as carriers of geological time, industrial histories, and latent futures.
Through site-specific research, material experimentation, and collaboration with local industries, the studio develops objects, installations, and material propositions that sit between art, architecture, and production. Studio Eidola’s work examines how industrial residues can be recontextualized, transformed, and reintegrated into contemporary material cultures.
The practice operates at the intersection of research and making, where material knowledge is generated through hands-on processes, testing, and iteration. By foregrounding overlooked matter and industrial by-products, Studio Eidola seeks to question extractive logics and propose alternative material narratives rooted in continuity, reuse, and long-term thinking.
Alongside its research practice, the studio has co-founded Eidola Materials, an initiative focused on translating these investigations into applied material supply and industrial integration, extending the work from speculative and discursive formats into practical implementation.
Rümlangstrasse 91a
CH-8052 Zürich
Switzerland
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Dive into
05.2025 | What do you want brick? CID Grand-Hornu. Curated by Caroline Naphegyi. (Hornu, BE)
04.2025 | Before and After Sand. Gewerbemuseum Winterthur. (Winterthur, CH)
03.2025 | Right Here Right Now: Bioregional ways and situated practices. Covilha Design Triennale. (Covilha, PT)
03.2025 | Synthetic Geologies: On the Becoming Process of Cement. Solo exhibition. MAGAZIN Space for contemporary architecture. (Vienna, AT)
11.2024 | Swiss Design Classics. Today Art Museum Beijing. (Beijing, CN)
10.2024 | Tools of Rekindling. De Fabriek. Dutch Design Week. (Eindhoven, NL)
09.2024 | Echoes. Basalto Collective. Zürich Design Weeks. (Zürich, CH)
08.2024 | Erosions. Merida Studio. (Boston, USA)
06.2024 | Design am Rhein. Andeer Granit. Battalia Stone Quarry. (Andeer, CH)
06.2024 | Swissnex. San Francisco Design Week. (San Francisco, USA)
06.2024 | Swiss Design Awards. Messe Basel. (Basel, CH)
04.2024 | Alcova. Milano Design Week. Villa Bagatti Valsecchi. (Milan, IT)
04.2024 | Topsoil Stools by Damn Magazine. Milano Design Week. Palazzo Litta. (Milan, IT)
11.2023 | Refresh Festival: New Realities. ZhDK. Toni Areal. (Zürich, CH)
09.2023 | Zürich Design Biennale. SHIFT. Alter Botanischer Garten. (Zürich, CH)
05.2023 | Venice Design Biennial. Auto-Exotic. (Venice, IT)
03.2023 | A city beyond: Rethinking Co-habitation. Löwenbräukunst Areal. (Zürich, CH)
03.2023 | Collectible 2023. Curated Section “What is your story?”. (Brussels, BE)
01.2023 | Colors Diskursiv No. 2. Forum Stadtpark. (Graz, AT)
10.2022 | Testa e Croce. ADI Design Museum. (Milan, IT)
10.2022 | Design Without Borders. Budapest Design Week 2022. (Budapest, HU)
09.2022 | Raw Senses. Zürich Design Weeks 2022. (Zürich, CH)
06.2022 | Design Switzerland. House of Switzerland. Milan Design Week. (Milan, IT)
05.2022 | Collectible 2022. Curated Section “Escapism”. (Brussels, BE)
04.2022 | HiFlow. Métamorphoses de l’espace. Du paysage à la matière. (Geneva, CH)
02.2022 | DesignGalerie@Museum. Gewerbemuseum Winterthur. With Okro Gallery. (Winterthur, CH)
11.2021 | Jungdesign. Designgut. (Winterthur, CH)
10.2021 | BioArt Labs. Dutch Design Week. (Eindhoven, NL)
09.2021 | Ukurant Perspectives. 3 Days of Design. (Copenhagen, DK)
09.2021 | Swiss Green Economy Symposium. Exhibition with Pro Helvetia. (Winterthur, CH)
Awards
12.2024 | Research Trip Grant - Rajasthan - India. Pro Helvetia New Delhi. (Tectonic Dusts)
06.2024 | Swiss Design Award 2024 in “Product Design” category. Bundesamt für Kultur BAK. (Tectonic Dusts)
05.2023 | Jury mention and project development mandate - Lausanne Jardins 24. (Le jardin des délices métalliques).
Team: Denizay Apusoglu, Jonas Kissling, Stephan Lando, Yuiko Shigeta
02.2023 | Research Trip Grant - Siwa and Cairo - Egypt. Pro Helvetia Cairo. (Ocean Articulated)
09.2021 | Best Product Award - Jungdesign: Sustainability and Innovation. (Ocean Articulated)
09.2021 | Design Work Grant - Concept. ProHelvetia. (Ocean Articulated)¨
Talks /
Workshops
06.2026 | Workshop “Exit Lounge: Rehearsing the post-coal”. Soil cluster. Irregular Circularities. Summer Camp Reallabor ZEKIWA. (Zeitz, DE)
02.2026 | Lecture “Material afterlives of extraction”. Carte Blanche XXI: VOGT. Architekturforum Zürich. (Zürich, CH)
10.2025 | Lecture “Toward a relational aesthetics of overlooked matter”. Practice-based Research Lecture Series. HGK Basel FHNW. (Basel, CH)
09.2025 | Material Ecologies. Built/Unbuilt: Relational pedagogies and participatory spatial practice.
Public Program of National Pavilion of Saudi Arabia. Venice Biennale of Architecture.(Venice, IT)
09.2025 | Pitch-Night Kreislaufwirtschaft. «Circular Economy». Organized by FREITAG, ZDW and tsri.ch. (Zürich, CH)
05.2025 | Panel discussion. Im Quadrat. “Impuls gemeinsam Weiterdenken”. Zollikofen. (Bern, CH)
04.2025 | Conference “The Days of Spring”. Panel “Bioregional Ways” moderated by Vera Sacchetti. Covilhã Design Triennial. (Covilhã, PT)
04.2025 | Panel discussion and pavillion opening. “Growing Matter(s)”. Organized by Henning Larsen. Milano Design Week. (Milan, IT)
02.2025 | Seminarweek input and quarry visit. Materiallabor. Architecture Hochschule Luzern, HSLU. (Luzern, CH)
09.2024 | Talk “Material dialogues between earth and artefact”. Kollektiv D. Zürich Design Weeks. (Zürich, CH)
04.2024 | Lecture “Material dialogues between earth and artefact”. Object Design. Lucerne School of Design, Film and Art, HSLU. (Luzern, CH)
02.2024 | Lecture “Materialbegegnungen”. Materiallabor. Architecture Hochschule Luzern, HSLU. (Luzern, CH)
10.2023 | Design Lounge Talks “What potential lies in the material?”. Organized by Museum für Gestaltung Zürich. (Zürich, CH)
05.2023 | Artist Talk “Ephemeral Geologies”. Organized by We ARE AIA. Löwenbräukunst. (Zürich, CH)
05.2023 | Podium Discussion “More with Less(ons)”. Organized by HUB Architecture Hochschule Luzern, HSLU. (Luzern, CH)
03.2023 | Workshop/Lecture “Form Finding Through the Processes of Nature”. Organized by OKRO Gallery and Bündner Kunstmuseum Chur. (Chur, CH)
03.2023 | Lecture “Ephemeral Geologies”. Design Art Night 6. (Brussels, BE)
09.2022 | Workshop “Ocean Articulated” for Graubünden and Zürich School of Design, SFGZ and SFGGR. (Zürich, CH)
04.2022 | Lecture “Narratives of Material tTansformation”. <
04.2022 | Lecture “Materials for New Narratives”. Territoire(s) Designer l’espcae urbain - HiFLOW. (Geneva, CH)
11.2021 | Pecha Kucha Presentation - Next Generation im Dialog - Gewerbemuseum. (Winterthur, CH)
08.2021 | Lecture "Site as a Source" in Architektur im Magazin. (Vienna, AT)
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