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Ar Vag by Thibault Penven /ECAL
Movie: Ecole Cantonale d’art de Lausanne (ECAL) student Thibault Penven has designed a folding boat.
Called Ar Vag, the vessel comprises rigid boards sewn into a waterproof skin so it can be unfolded quickly and stiffened by pushing two folding rods, like tent poles, into pockets in the rim.
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A wooden plank inserted through apertures in the walls holds the whole thing under tension and forms a seat.
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The project was on show at an exhibition of work from ECAL students called Too Cool for School in Milan last month.
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We featured another folding boat by Londoners Max Frommeld and Arno Mathies last summer - see it here.
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