
273
Jens Laugesen
Jens Laugesen
“Chance is not, nor can it be, anything more than the unknown cause of an unknown ef-
fect,” Voltaire once stated. e part of a designer’s work that revolves around the con-
cept of “hybrid” cannot be mere chance, but perhaps it could be the result of causality.
Danish designer Jens Laugesen’s eager interest in microbiology, genetic modifi cation and
hybridization—so fi tting at the outset of the new millennium, as they are fi elds in which
everything gets combined, reconstructed and reinvented—has been apparent in much of
his work since the outset of his career. In fact, his original plan was to study microbiology ...