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We see hair design as a form of communication-design as a concept. Designing a concept does not mean designing form or colour aspects of things but thoughts and emotion. By doing Zöpfchen we want to materialize thoughts to communicate them.
Examples:
1) A person with a Zöpfchen creates memories in someones mind.
2) A person with a Zöpfchen meets someone with a Zöpfchen. They look at each other with a shy smile on their faces or they look angry or arrogant.
3) A person without a Zöpfchen sees a person with a Zöpfchen. She becomes jealous. Her aim is to get a Zöpfchen. She thinks it is übercool.
4) Two people with a Zöpfchen meet someone without. He feels excluded. They feel connected.
5) A person with a Zöpfchen hides his Zöpfchen under a hat. She knows that she has a Zöpfchen but nobody else knows.
6) Someone without a Zöpfchen sees someone without a Zöpfchen. We do not know what will happen. Maybe they have thoughts and emotion.

What we did not consider in our examples is touching, kissing and feeling the Zöpfchen, that is very smooth, because it is made of wool, that would create a lot of further constellations.
The Zöpfchen has always the colour of the hair of the person so it strenghtens the identity of the person while communicating. Every person creates his own identity so the Zöpfchen has also the colour of coloured hair. Lenghth and position of the Zöpfchen can be chosen by the individual because of his individual identity. We make the Zöpfchen with our hands in the hair of the people. Maybe we talk to the people perhaps they talk to us perhaps the only communication is a touch of our fingertips on their heads.




Extend Your Communication was a Zöpfchen stand at Profile Intermedia 7 Bremen
Its idea is written with Peter Wiesmann in Palast der Republik Berlin
Our assistant was Arnold Gevers
A Zöpfchen is a braid

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