WILD is an experimental research project by Lore Langendries in collaboration with Rayah Wauters (NAUWAU). The project is rooted in a healthy ecosystem principle: How can we align the wild boar as a raw material, and its processing, with its original habitat — without impacting that habitat?
In its first phase, Langendries and Wauters explore the expressive qualities and new potential of both wild boar hide and wood. From beginning to end, both materials act as active agents in the thinking, design, and making process, serving simultaneously as subject and substance. The first result of this research took shape as a modular series of five objects, inviting multiple configurations and uses. The making process unfolded through woodturning, shearing, trimming, cutting, sanding, and gluing — gestures that reveal and refine the innate character of each material.