About metaphors

WEEK11- DAY 7

1. SOUNDTRACK OF THE DAY

Break on through to the other side

2. PLACES TO KNOW

A desert in Spain

3. PEOPLE TO DISCOVER

Ettore Sottsass - Metaphor book 

Video about Ettore

“If you think you’re meeting your destiny on the other side of a door you may not be interested in its design”.


Sottsass - “When I was young, all we ever heard about was functionalism, functionalism, functionalism. It’s not enough. Design should also be sensual and exciting.”

4. QUESTION OF THE DAY

5. INSPIRATION

What are doors?
“All the world’s a stage, And all the men and women merely players; They have their exits and their entrances,” Shakespeare.

Metaphors animate conversations, build interest and underlying tension, and finally encourage a more lively exchange. It’s a play with words. It’s about creating a story. An idea is drawn with a flexible outline: one that is blurred
by the overlapping of our individual interpretations.

“There is no present or future, only the past, happening over and over again, now.” Eugene O’Neill

“Time is like a handful of sand- the tighter you grasp it, the faster it runs through your fingers.” Henry David Thoreau

Contemporary design is 99% linked to the production of symbolic meaning and the telling of stories. Good design is about adding a symbolic value to an object, a food, a short story etc. To communicate with other people. To convey meaning and messages.

The Solar Sinter by Markus Kayser. This project was made using Arduino.

“There are things known, and things unknown, and in between are the Doors.”, said Jim Morrison, Ray Manzarek, Aldous Huxley and William Blake.

Huxley - “The Doors of Perception.” book
Blake -“The Marriage of Heaven and Hell.” book

6. Homework 

Today, you will ponder the very sensitivity of your doors to the world: your perception of things. How do you see your surroundings? What do you observe most?