Ralston Bau is an independent studio decoding the – on so many levels – complex world we move in, to understand and reflect on visible and invisible issues. Their transformative practice turns sustainable ideas into bioregional action, connect people to fair common spaces – and turn human rituals into essential objects. Their work take form as narrative spaces and personal objects to urban lighting and furniture in public space. 

In 2020 the studio co-founded the Bioregion Institute to develop sustainable and regional value-chains, materials and products for a fossil-free society.

Ralston Bau was founded in Paris 2001, with an eye for the unexpected and the yet unexplored areas within the design field. Thus Transplant was built and opened in 2007, an 600 m2 experimental design centre located by a Norwegian fjord, where a successful five-year collaboration between art and design was formed.

From 2009 to 2015, the studio curated the research through design programme Ideal Lab, where they invited 52 artists, designers, and sociologists to work in local contexts and create their own work within social thematics.
With the aim to pursue transversal design research, they founded the Idealist Institute together with likeminded partners in Norway, Sweden, France, and UK. Citizens and professionals meet with the ambition to shape ideal futures that are inclusive and sustainable, within their own fields and contexts in transformation.

Ralston Bau where associated artists of MAGASIN des Horizons – CNAC in Grenoble 2017-2020. The studio has received several international recognitions, “Red Dot Product Design Award” and their works have been acquired by design and art museums.

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