On Comforts

In this talk, Louise Morin will present a selection of experiments, contextual and temporary interventions she has worked on over the past few years. She will consider how residencies have allowed her to develop a process outside a conventional practice or academic research, but rather somewhere in between them, and how the use of textile can function as a means for investigating how our relationship towards thermal comfort can be experienced collectively, raising further questions on their performative aspect. She will present her work process of image collections and discuss how this process has become a research topic in itself, as well as ongoing collaborations with different textile industries, artisans and makers.

Louise Morin is a French architect and designer whose work, which ranges from objects, installations, scenography and architecture, questions our relationship to comfort and our ways of being together. Her projects unfold at the boundaries between the scales of the body and architecture, and often materialise through textile installations.

She established her practice in Paris in 2018 after graduating from Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design in London and ENSA Paris – Val de Seine. In 2021-2022 she attended a four-month residency at the Centre International d’Art et du Paysage on the Île de Vassivière in France. In 2022-2023 she attended a six-month residency in the MAK Center for Art and Architecture in Los Angeles. In 2023-2024 she was the first resident of the programme launched by Architecture Curating Practice in Brussels. In 2025 she has received a grant form CNAP (French National Center for Arts) in order to develop a project titled 'Comforts'. In June this year she attended a residency in Cap Moderne which gathers at Eileen Gray's E1027 Villa and Le Corbusier’s Cabanon, to develop a site-specific textile installation in the garden of the Villa.

Image: Tim Benton

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