Maïté Seimetz

Bartlett School of Architecture
IG @i.ate.maite_

Born in 1995 in Luxembourg, Maïté Seimetz is an artist and designer based between Paris and Luxembourg. She holds a Master’s degree in Architecture from the Bartlett School of Architecture in London (2020), and develops an interdisciplinary practice that questions the shifting boundary between art, design and technology by generating surrealist mutations between the real and the virtual.

She employs digital methodologies to subvert the codes of design in order to create objects stripped of their habitual purpose, which become strange domestic figures, oscillating between the familiar and the uncanny. Her sensitivity towards imaginary and strange worlds nourishes an essential emotional dimension of her work, where the imaginary becomes a space of confrontation and transformation.

LODMRYD
LODMRYD (Let the Old Dead Make Room for the Young Dead) is an object design project situated at the intersection of art, technical experimentation, and critical inquiry. It challenges anthropocentrism and functionalist design logic by conceiving the object as an expressive, relational, and potentially autonomous entity.

Furniture, traditionally passive and subordinate to human use, becomes an ambiguous actor that oscillates between familiarity and strangeness. This tension invites a reconsideration of the value of design, not merely as a functional tool, but as an existential presence, advocating for an approach in which longevity and emotional legacy take precedence over pure functional performance.

Produced through 3D printing using a wood-fiber filament, the project combines digital craftsmanship, digital sculpture, additive manufacturing, and hand-finished techniques within a narrative-driven practice where the object becomes both functional and meaningful.