We all been told that there would be an exhbition at the end of Design101 course. Now the annoucement has been made. It's a bit of a confusion what I just read. Selection of works between several platforms - FB, Twitter, iversity? How? Students will post the same work on every platform? Who can vote? Everyone? Students? Non students? Non active students, meaning those who enrolled and still vote and comment but who did not send works for the course or gave it up? Can I call my 1996 FB friiends to vote?!! Also it seems there will not be much time to create. Not sure if I'll do anything to send to this exhibition. But probably more info on the way, we shall see.
An online journey of 101 days celebrated into 101 projects! It was supposed to be a celebration. What I would like to happen - First, freedom for us to pick one of our best works presented on Design 101 journey, some time to improve it, maybe a common format to present a good photo of it and send it. A big photo exhibition of Design101 achievments that could easily be transformed into a wonderful book. Something easy and meaningful. No big fuss. KISS - Keep it simple...Instead what I am thinking after reading the announcement is a big confusion.
People are already disliking that they have to vote. I never understood the voting in the course, I never voted, sorry if any of you voted for my works, but I prefered to comment and often forget about the voting part. First when I read people discussions about it I did not even know where to vote, LOL! I don't like the Votes, can't see the reason for it, and I don't like the Likes neither. I've been in several art contests with online voting and all I saw was trouble and bad atmosphere. Now I don't enter it anymore no matter what prize they promise. Probably my participation on Design 101 will end with on the last week of the course and hands on task. Also I don't know if organization will get 101 works for this "blaueblumen". Have you counted participations lately?! Once again, KISS.
The blue flowers. This will be the theme. Works will still be a result of a briefing created by Design 101 team. It's more or less the same to create a new project for the show or to present one of the previous we uploaded. But in my mind it would make more sense if you could pick one of what we did and improve it. Because by now we have experience dealing with the concept of it, the materials, we did research, we saw a lot of works of our fellows students. So I think that indeed we learned in the process. With that knowledge we would be able to repeat the process and do it better. Or we could just send the project we created if we are confortable with it. But I guess Design 101 crew has uniformity in mind, a common theme for the show. As I said, not sure what will I do but not thrilled with the idea.
The journey is ending and it has been a good one. One more week left! One thing I' m sure - I will miss the letters, the readings, the tasks, the comments, all students' work photos. There are a lot of things I want to do because of this course. Things I want to try. Readings I want to do. It has been a great experience. The exihbition is not, at least for me, the most important thing of this journey and I will not let myself be upset about it.
The journey is ending and it has been a good one. One more week left! One thing I' m sure - I will miss the letters, the readings, the tasks, the comments, all students' work photos. There are a lot of things I want to do because of this course. Things I want to try. Readings I want to do. It has been a great experience. The exihbition is not, at least for me, the most important thing of this journey and I will not let myself be upset about it.
The big announcement.
the design 101 exhibition at designtransfer,
berlin university of the arts
#blaueblumen
"...the blue flower. it is constantly in my mind, and i can think and compose of nothing else. i have never been in such a mood." henry in novalis’ henry of ofterdingen: a romance
Read it here - Henry of Ofterdingen: A Romance.
ready for the show?
ready to show our works at the prestigious udk?
- what: an online journey of 101 days celebrated into 101 projects
- where: designtransfer, udk berlin, einsteinufer 43
- when: 25-26 april 2014
- who: 101 designers within the design 101 community will be chosen to exhibit a work which they will have made especially for the exhibition. an open call.
- selection: last week of the design 101 course (3-5 february 2014)
- the community choice:
25 highest voted projects from the iversity platform on the voting days (3-5 feb).
- the social media choice:
25 most popular projects on facebook, twitter and instagram (#design1o1 hash-tagged pictures that received most likes, re-tweets, favourites, comments etc…). more will follow on how we will define (and count) these “most popular”.
every project posted on the above mentioned platforms (facebook, twitter, instagram) is eligible.
- the design 101 choice:
25 projects selected by the Design 101 crew and iversity.
every project is eligible.
- the designtranfer choice:
25 projects selected by designtransfer team.
every project is eligible.
- stefi’s choice:
1 project selected by stefano mirti
every project is eligible.
- am i eligible to participate in the voting phase?yes!
- is there a brief? yes! the project’s brief will be revealed on week 14 of the design 101 course (jan 27). the title of the exhibition should give you some hints...
- what happens if i am selected?you will need to bring (or send) your work to iversity (berlin) before april 21.
- will it cost me money?you will need to cover the charges of the shipment. if you wish to have your work sent back to you, these shipping costs will apply as well.
- will I get my work back?if you want your work back, you will need to cover the charges of the shipment.
- what happens if my work is damaged during the exhibition?this would be very sad, but we will do our best for it not to happen. at the same time, we cannot take responsibility for these unfortunate events and thus, you will have to agree on taking the risk.
- do i have to come to berlin?no you don't, but we would love you to come! please let us know if you do so!
- weren’t we supposed to have the show at the end of february?yes, but logistical issues made us postpone the final exhibition to april. however, we will have an informal meeting + party in berlin to celebrate the end of the course, on the week-end of the 21st / 23rd of february! from the design 101 crew, there will be anne-sophie gauvin, stefano mirti and giulia san gregorio.
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