hEXtable: a growing table. A project rooted in the common

Abstract

School must celebrate the common and the tables must be the place that unites and connects us, the teachers said. The concept of the desk had to be reimagined. This paper charts a journey through the author’s design practice, pursuing transformation of the pedagogical space of the classroom through the common. hEXtable is a scalar series of tables that grow and unfold like a mosaic but that can also nest within each other like a set of Russian dolls. The irregular hexagonal tables grouped in different ways play with order, favoring individual and collective forms of appropriation.