Vernissage of the Synergi exhibition

Thibaut Devulder
September 4, 2025

The new Synergi exhibition organised by Kroloftet opens at the Gamle Munch Museum on Friday 5th September. I have contributed two collaborative pieces to the exhibition, which will be on display until 21st September.

Poster for the Synergi exhibition at the Gamle Munch Museum — Poster for the exhibition

I have been working over the summer on this project, together with creative people at the Kroloftet collective, where our Norwegian office has its office and workshops.

Based on the concept of synergy, our exhibition will display 11 projects, each developed as a synergetic collaborations between creatives from different disciplines at Kroloftet, spanning across ceramics, architecture, poetry, photography, sound art, biology, woodworking, illustration, history, micro-edition and crystallography!

We kickstarted this concept four months ago with a fun “creative speed-dating” event: meet each person at Kroloftet for a 3-minute chat (with timer!) and explore new creative possibilities for cross-disciplinary art!

Sign showing Thibaut's different interests and skills, for the creative speed-dating event — The sign I hung around my neck for the “creative speed-dating” event, illustrating my interests and skills. “Tibå” is the pronunciation of my name (“Tee-bo”) in Norwegian phonetic…

The Frithjof Reppen Memory table at the Synergi exhibition — Memory table to Frithjof Reppen

I will present two collaborative pieces: Nascence — a tactile sound installation in collaboration with ceramic artist Amanda Krantz — and Memory Table — a commemorative engraved wooden table celebrating architecture, community and the free press, in collaboration with artist Carlos Martin Román.

The vernissage is on Friday 5th September 2025 at 17:00 at the Gamle Munch Museum (former Munch Museum) in Oslo. The event and exhibition are free and open to all.
Come and join us!

Natural clay floor

Thibaut Devulder
November 14, 2023

Hands-on course last week at our collective work space Kroloftet in Oslo, where I got a chance to practice natural clay flooring techniques under the guidance of our collaborator Kristian Møystad Bjørnland (of Ur Arkitekter) and Marc Charneau (of Kroloftet).

This little practical exercise aimed at resurfacing the unfinished floor of one of our meeting rooms, exploring clay plaster mixes, workmanship and surface treatments to create a natural, durable and, of course, beautiful floor.

We aimed are reclaiming as much existing materials as possible: taking as a starting point the strangely laid out parquet in the middle of the room over a rough concrete floor, we collected unwanted clay materials from our ceramics workshop, waste wood shavings from the wood workshop and hand sifted sand from a local quarry to experiment with various mix of clay-sand-fibre-water.

The rough concrete floor around the parqueted area, before applying the clay plaster

After an initial layer of clay mix compressed in place, we progressed through several layers of finer clay mixes to achieve a smooth end result. Since we used reclaimed materials of uncertain composition, we decided to experiment with various mixing proportions, some of which more successful than others, which gave us a chance to practice our reparation techniques on the less optimal mixes that developed cracks upon drying!

We finally applied a coat of boiled linseed oil and wax, purchased from the local building conservation shop, to seal and harden the surface.

The workshop was rich in discoveries and allowed me to experience the theory and process behind clay plastering.

With beautiful moisture control abilities, low embodied energy and full recyclability, we are looking forward to applying clay plastering techniques to create stunning and durable interior finishes for our future projects!

Prototyping with the CNC router

Thibaut Devulder
May 31, 2022

We have now access to an amazing CNC router at our new office space at Kroloftet. I tested it today for the first time, initially to fabricate some simple wooden gears for a homemade “analog music sequencer” I am developing for our next Ooo-Ya-Tsu art project (more in this later…)

Wooden gears cut on the CNC router — The wooden gears, cut on the CNC router, with MIDI music “encoded” into grooves on the right

These gears were modelled in SketchUp and imported into AutoDesk Fusion, before being sent to the CNC router for fabrication. The geometry for the round grooves on one of the large gears was generated by a computer program I coded in Processing that reads musical MIDI files and convert them into 3D shapes, which can then can be grooved into the gears, effectively “encoding” the music into the wood. Fairly simple to start with, but it worked, so on with the prototyping!

Many thanks to Peter Magnus, expert digital fabricator at Kroloftet, for the heads up on using this amazing machine!

New office and wood workshop at Kroloftet

Thibaut Devulder
March 24, 2022

We are delighted to have joined the dynamic and eclectic work collective at Kroloftet, in Oslo.

In addition to a shared workspace, we now also have access to a fully equipped wood workshop, including a large-scale CNC router, to fabricate custom-made furniture and fittings for your next project!

We are looking forward to exciting collaborations with the many skilled crafts(wo)men at Kroloftet, whose disciplines include (among many others) metalwork, wood joinery, upholstery, boat building, illustration, film direction, ceramics and puppet making!