The collection and the vision

WEEK14 - DAY 5

1. Soundtrack of the day

By the beautiful blue Danube

2. People to meet

Junya Ishigami - interview

Takashi Murakami

3. Places to go

Antwerp, Belgium

4. Question of the day

5. Inspiration Ishigami- interview

What is the best moment of the day?

“Just before going to sleep. I can finally relax from the day, have a peace of mind.”

“I would encourage them (the young) to create things in a free way. This means without depending on past knowledge or past creations. Try to create new values within architecture and design. Challenge current values and come up with new ones.”

“I would like to regard plant life not just as a landscape element but as an element equivalent to buildings in the formation of space.”

Ishigami worked for Sanaa.

“Times and conditions change so rapidly that we must keep our aim constantly focused on the future.” Walt Disney

About a concept

In Junya Ishigami’s case, his workshop for students at the Kanagawa Institute of Technology, his Greenhouses outside the Japanese pavilion at the 2008 International Architecture Biennale in Venice, Italy, his “Table” installation and his “cuboid balloon” all show an obsession with light, lightness, transparency.
But it’s mostly about creating new space: exploring scale and proportion. He creates nearly “invisible” objects and architecture letting the surroundings define its own space.(From the course letter)

Some cute artificial flowers 
Tonkin Liu’s Future Flower.Harvard researcher grows microscopic crystal flowers.
Green Azuma Makoto
A “Flower observatory” by Olafur Eliasson
Jeff Koons’ Inflatable - Balloon Flower (yellow),

6.Homework

How do you see your flowers? Today, you will make a web collection of your blue flowers, the ones you made yesterday. Show and tell us all about them!
Share your vision with us. Take a screenshot of your collection and share it with us. And also, give us the link to it!

(Next post, please!)