Soft Triangles

Soft Triangles is a sensory installation for children composed of modular soft sculptures based on a triangular geometry. Designed to be touched, explored, and reconfigured, each module features different closing systems that encourage interaction, play, and discovery.

Originally developed for Haren Prison, the project emerged as a lightweight and non-invasive way to temporarily transform a highly controlled environment. Through soft, movable forms, it creates opportunities for connection, imagination, and shared experiences between children and their parents during visits.

Made entirely from second-hand fabrics and recycled cushion filling, the installation combines sustainability with a tactile experience of color, texture, and softness.

As part of the project, children and their parents were invited to co-create visual stories. These narratives were later translated into embroidered elements integrated into the installation, integrating personal traces and memories into the work.

Soft Triangles explores how design can reshape the emotional atmosphere of a space, making room for play, movement, care, and connection in contexts where these experiences are often limited. Developed within the framework of Relais Enfant Parent and De Rode Antraciet, with the support of Lasso and AlcARte.

A special thank you to everyone who made this project possible.

To Mathilde and Lou, for your incredible initiative, trust, and collaboration throughout the entire process. To Green Fabric, for generously providing the deadstock textiles that became the foundation of the project. To Soupplooteque, for the amazing work of collecting and donating old pillows that were transformed into the soft filling of the pieces.

To Suxian (Shu) Lee for creating the beautiful storytelling illustrations that helped document and share the project when photography inside the prison was not possible. 

Also thanks to Vigo, the most incredible model, who showed me so many playful and unexpected ways of interacting with the modules. And to Luth, his wonderful mother, for bringing him to the photoshoot and making it all possible.

And finally, my deepest gratitude to Sienne, Lasso, and Rhodé Anthracite for making this initiative possible and for their commitment to creating more caring and meaningful spaces for children and families.

This project is the result of many hands, ideas, and acts of generosity.