This document announces a worldwide call for multidisciplinary thinkers and designers to submit concepts for portable workspaces of the future. It provides context on changing work styles and the desire for flexibility and mobility. Entrants are asked to envision lightweight, easily transportable objects, tools, or systems to enable work anywhere. A jury of design experts will select 15 finalists and award prizes in art, design, and culture categories. The goal is to support ecological health, craftsmanship, and a vision for new models of flexible, mobile work.

1. Mobility:
Escape from the office
Worldwide call to multidisciplinary
thinkers, designers and students: What will
you need in the future, to do your work?
A place for Art, Design, Culture
Deadline 24/01/2016 • All info: www.fb.com/stulensmobilitycall
www.stulens.be

2. Mobility:
Escape from the office
Worldwide call to multidisciplinary thinkers,
designers and students: What will you need
in the future, to do your work?
Context of Call:
In a series of 3 years, Stulens - Home to Offices is reaching out to all the new creatives of
tomorrow, still studying or already out in the field - be it product or interior designer or art student
or creative in the broadest sense of the word - to rethink the way people work.
Work and its place of action, the office, is being challenged in this era. We, the workers - be it
independents, 9 to 5ers or half parent half a bit of everything combiners. Escapism is the word
that comes to mind these days when it comes to work. Everywhere but home, or office or one
single work spot, what is wanted is to escape the usual fixed spot for meetings, brainstorms,
sketching, planning, thinking, proper work in any form possible.
Different than a few years ago where the Googles and Yahoos were advertising their comfy cosy
wombs and cocoons of play, live, eat, sleep and work as all in one. Concepts for having employees
to never escape the building were complete, including ski lifts, fake grass and snow, animals and
plants adding up to the realness of the story. Highly organic, seemingly chaotic and opposite to
the systematic offices where patterns and settings were machine made and fake walls prefab,
work was solitary almost except for when peeping beyond the fences. Work and its office have
been constantly changing face and body over the years.
We believe that the idea of office has come to its bare minimum in this era. What is work? What
is our status when doing that task that is needed? Are we revolting against the constantly seated,
fighting to be a good boy and act strict and focused? We think not, there is too much impatience
implemented in our lifestyle, online, in taste and actions, the new generation thinks and does
different (again). A bit of everything, now and then, here and there. Punk and classic, in a garden
of silence, a noisy café and at the buzzing library, we combine it all.
And so. What is our state of work these days, we are talking specifics here. The moment of
hopping on a bike and having with us: perhaps nothing more than what our basket can carry,
laptop or ipad, notebook, some paper, an agenda, and while biking, naughty boy and girl: iphone
scrolling through events and posts, e-mails even. Work is different and perhaps not claimed to be
work as such. But that moment when stepping away from the usual office, and meeting someone
to collaborate with during a momentum, it needs a new concept. A suitcase or package or basket
or cocoon or origami unfoldable office of the new century. Or maybe even beyond material
artefacts: a multidiscplinary approach or service/app that help you design your work and align it
with your collaborators, improve that network clic, combining digital with the tactile. What gives
us the liberty we want and yet the support we need? What form is this, and what function does it
have? Multiple functionality for multiple disciplines.
That new work equipment, object, form, surrounding, system, concept, element that serves in the
interior and exterior and is easy transportable. We think by bike, by foot (yes, gone is the car).
What is your vision on this? What would that concept look like?
This call is to support the build of that future, create a hub for those in love with ecological health,
craftsmanship and heart for Earth and its inhabitants. Clever too, witty even.
This is a call to challenge the present and to draw the future. This is a call that will be well
rewarded with tools of knowledge and experience to grow as an artist, designer and thinker. This
is a call to establish a global vision on new design, global thinking and local implementing.

3. Briefing of Call:
Think and rethink what is needed to be able to work in these new times. What object,
construction or tool can be carried along, by foot or by bike, to be set up somewhere: in the city
or out in the open. Think of weight, material, construction, yes, but within the bounds of a concept.
Sketch, draw, collage, dream and visualise that same dream.
The call implies the new you will work anywhere possible: in the fields as it is a beautiful day and
a picnic is combined, in the city center on a bench under a tree, the library, anywhere. This act
of ‘work’ will be done alone, together with someone or in the form of a a meeting with a bunch.
The call is for a solitary ‘work tool’. Yet, the new you is a social being and combines moments of
ultimate concentration amidst a busy coffee shop with buzzing brainstorms with enthusiasm of
virtual or real fellow companions.
Office work like we know it, will no longer exist, we think. Rethink what is needed to be able to
carry along to go to work, anywhere. Something that supports your needs and vision.
What will you need in the future, to do your work?
Concept specifics of Call:
The object or construction or tool must be able to be carried along by bike or by foot. The weight
is hypothetically doable for an adult person. What is needed for this out-of-the-office escape
is basic: mobile phone, ipad or laptop, paper and pen, notebook or agenda. Drinks maybe too,
depending on the heat and whereabouts. Wether you a city purpose, be it a library or café or city
bench or the out in the fields or woods approach, where there are no people or benches, your
concept will be innovative and produce a smile. The focus is on the concept, you are free to be
very specific on details, but this is not a must.
Use visuals, sketches, texts to make the idea crystal clear.
Q: Can I make a 3D render or model and add the picture on the presentation? A: YES
Q: Can I use mood pictures that are not mine to visualise the concept? A: NO
Q: Can I be dreamy and invent something that is not yet possible to produce? A: YES
Q: Can I add functions to it that are personally influenced? A: YES
Q: Can I collaborate with several creatives if I mention all names? A: YES
Q: Can I enter more than 1 concept? A: YES
Q: Will the copyright of the concept remain with the creator? A: YES
Q: Does the creator by participating automatically agrees that Stulens and its partners have
promotional + exhibition publicity rights over the concept, within the context of the Call? A: YES
Technical specifics of Call:
The concept is delivered digitally and presented on a landscape A1 size (84x59,4cm) pdf or jpeg,
200 dpi, rgb. The file is named after the contact person: Surname_Name_Title_City_Country.pdf —
On the presentation no personal name or signature or company logo is placed. The jury must have
an objective judgement.
A seperate text file lists all people collaborating: full names, contact details per person (phone +
e-mail + website), individual city and country name are listed. Also in this text file: the company or
school (name + url) of every person and last but not least: the file name.
The pdf/jpg + txt file will sent through by email (<2mb) or via wetransfer (> 2mb)
to mobilitycall@stulens.be by January 24, 2016, 23:00 (GMT) latest.
Mobility:
Escape from the office
Worldwide call to multidisciplinary thinkers,
designers and students: What will you need
in the future, to do your work?

4. Jury of Call:
Kris Martin (Belgium) — Jury #1 Elisa Bertolotti (Italy) — Jury #2
Conceptual artist, Ghent Designer, researcher, Milan, imagislab.it
sieshoeke.com/artists/kris-martin Design Department, Politecnico di Milano, design.polimi.it
Nils Holger Moormann (Germany) — Jury #3 Veerle Helsen (Belgium) — Jury #4
Designer, Aschau on Chiemgau Journalist design & architecture
www.moormann.de Knack Weekend, Belgium, www.knackweekend.be
Remy Schepens (Belgium) — Jury #5 Birgit Stulens (Belgium) — Head of jury
Managing director Vitra Benelux Managing director Stulens
www.vitra.com www.stulens.be
The five jury members will each select 3 concepts.
The head of jury will select 3 final winners of the total of 15 selected concepts.
The 3 winners are devided into 3 categories: ART + DESIGN + CULTURE
All 15 selected concept A1s will be exhibited at Stulens – Home to Offices (B)
The 3 winners will be awarded during the ceremony at Stulens on February 25, 2016
Criteria of Call:
Selection criteria of ART: the concept is driven by experimental and artistic brilliance, evocative thinking.
Selection criteria of DESIGN: the concept visualises the product of innovative and problemsolving thinking.
Selection criteria of CULTURE: the concept shows the ultimate translation of local awareness, the creator
integrates own roots, origin and culture to the idea.
General selection criteria: the concept carries sustainable thinking, craftsmanship and love for Earth.
Awards:
The winning concepts in the categories ART, DESIGN and CULTURE will be awarded by unique knowledge,
experience and exposure driven prizes by Vitra, Moormann, Knack Weekend and Stulens.
All updated information will be published on fb.com/stulensmobilitycall
Mobility:
Escape from the office
Worldwide call to multidisciplinary thinkers,
designers and students: What will you need
in the future, to do your work?

5. Organiser of Call:
Stulens / stulens.be
Stulens – Home to Offices is a Belgian family-owned office and home furniture design store, located in
Hasselt, Belgium. It focusses on ‘happy sustainability’ and craftsmanship through art, design and culture.
Partners of Call:
Vitra / vitra.com
Vitra is a Swiss family-owned furniture company with headquarters in Birsfelden, Switzerland. It is
manufacturer of the works of many internationally renowned furniture designers.
Knack Weekend / knackweekend.be
Knack Weekend is a Belgian lifestyle magazine with special focus on architecture, design and fashion,
supporting young, creative talent in various disciplines.
Nils Holger Moormann / moormann.de
Nils Holger Moormann is one of the most innovative German furniture designers and furniture company
with headquarters in Aschau on Chiemgau. It is manufacturer of own and external furniture designs.
Mobility:
Escape from the office
Worldwide call to multidisciplinary thinkers,
designers and students: What will you need
in the future, to do your work?

6. Mobility:
Escape from the office
Worldwide call to multidisciplinary thinkers,
designers and students: What will you need
in the future, to do your work?
Stulens is a house of art, design and
culture. An interface of ideas for work and
life, focussed on form, function, feel and
atmosphere. As an enterprise we place
quality life and work on a top shelf. We will
contribute to this in every possible way, be
it through quality products, high standard
service or advice. Same goes for our vision
and strategy, both constructed on a quality
foundation. Stulens wants to take the lead
role as a society-responsible enterpreneur.
We manifest ourselves in a determined
choice for quality, sustainability, human life,
society and environment. Art, design and
culture are more than pilars, they are the
foundation of our house. A house of trust.
Today, tomorrow and in the future.
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