The research project “Neanderthal” stems from the observation that production processes are changing. The linear production from project to production to consumer is being modified and there are new possibilities on the horizon.

What will be the role of the designer?
Will the consumer be able to intervene directly in the production?
Will the designer still design objects? Will the designer simply become the creator of new production processes that respond to our needs?
Will the existence of the designer still make sense even if the consumer can design and personally construct objects?

The Neanderthal project aims to explore, through new systems of production, how these tools will develop.
Through a balance between artisanal and digital production, this project strives to investigate these new horizons.
Just as the Neanderthal men developed their own needs, without aesthetic preconceptions, these objects exhibited also ironically aim to address some of the needs of our epoch, avoiding the aesthetic and concentrating exclusively on the process and the contradictions of contemporary needs.

The DNA of primitive man embodies the evolution of future species; new means of production are supplying us with infinite possibilities, but only if designers and consumers discover the right means to make them truly efficient.