Since we started the project we have been experimenting with the materiality of Proyecto Ensamble, and as good experimentation has had bad and good results.
We always come across some "but", such as that the manufacturing cost is too high, there is no way in thinking about sending the parts to be made in China where they most likely have a child slave working or any other horrifying thing. . Thinking about passing the costs of “Chilean manufacturing” to future and mysterious “buyers” leaves me with a negative profit margin. And on the other hand, the competition against products actually manufactured by a poorly paid Nepalese, with a cost per unit of -$100, has no legs or head. There are other even more obscene "buts" that I will not mention on this occasion.
In any case, we embarked on materializing new proposals because these trifles mean nothing to us, and one of the options we considered was textiles, so we decided to transform the Ensemble piece into a nice constructive cushion. In this version, the concept of assembly is maintained in a human-scale figure (of a human of approximately 4 years old), constituted in a materiality (non-woven fabric, TNT) that gives the flexibility to be used as a constructive toy or as best friend.
