1. SOUNDTRACK OF THE DAY
Hikakin japanese beatboxer - here
2. PLACES TO KNOW
Paris
3. PEOPLE TO DISCOVER
Yona Friedman. One of the most important theoreticians and architects of our times.
4. QUESTION OF THE DAY
5. INSPIRATION
Yona Friedman’s first simple truth:“We cannot understand the Universe.”
His second simple truth:“We do not need to understand the Universe.”
We need “mobile” architecture, “infrastructures that are neither determined nor determining”.
Movie about fundamentals here. More here.
A link with nice images and a blog
“I am interested in improvisation”. Friedman’s words. They come from his relationship with his dog Balkis. “I must still give special thanks to my dog, who helped me to open my eyes and perceive the representation of the world by another species, a non-human species...I have had one very important intellectual guide: my dog.A dog spends its whole life improvising. Improvising in every situation.”
A cloud spatiale city
We need theories to explain why we do some things rather than others. According to Yona Friedman, theories “must be general and valid for anybody”.
“If a theory is well constructed and spread abroad, it has the advantage of no longer being the property of specialists, but of stemming from the public domain.”
Tomas Saraceno made a project with Yona Friedman! Here’s a part of the conversation they had at the very beginning of their process:
“Some ideas are perhaps coming together between irregular structures and my idea of putting a city in the clouds. We could merge them together and renew people’s imagination. We could activate processes over the Internet. It is something in the air, and these things can be connected, sprinkling new
ideas around,” said Tomas.
“Okay, we can start on it, but please don’t over-plan. Leave it to the people themselves,” responded Friedman.
Peter Sloterdijk - a German philosopher. He refers a lot to “space” using geometrical metaphors to make us understand things. Good books.
Book - Bubbles.
Book - You Must Change Your Life.
Sloterdijk really likes improvisation and also has nice tricks and exercises for us to try.
A documentary on Jackson Pollock
6. HOMEWORK
Today, we talk in the abstract, a place that exists... nowhere and everywhere. It’s about believing in principles and theory... posing an hypothesis and letting it go...
We need theories to explain why we do some things rather than others. According to Yona Friedman, theories “must be general and valid for anybody”.
“If a theory is well constructed and spread abroad, it has the advantage of no longer being the property of specialists, but of stemming from the public domain.”
Tomas Saraceno made a project with Yona Friedman! Here’s a part of the conversation they had at the very beginning of their process:
“Some ideas are perhaps coming together between irregular structures and my idea of putting a city in the clouds. We could merge them together and renew people’s imagination. We could activate processes over the Internet. It is something in the air, and these things can be connected, sprinkling new
ideas around,” said Tomas.
“Okay, we can start on it, but please don’t over-plan. Leave it to the people themselves,” responded Friedman.
Peter Sloterdijk - a German philosopher. He refers a lot to “space” using geometrical metaphors to make us understand things. Good books.
Book - Bubbles.
Book - You Must Change Your Life.
Sloterdijk really likes improvisation and also has nice tricks and exercises for us to try.
A documentary on Jackson Pollock
6. HOMEWORK
Today, we talk in the abstract, a place that exists... nowhere and everywhere. It’s about believing in principles and theory... posing an hypothesis and letting it go...
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