Showing posts with label Week4. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Week4. Show all posts
Monday, November 25, 2013
Sunday, November 24, 2013
A special place
WEEK4_DAY 7
1. SOUNDTRACK OF THE DAY
ABBA - Super Trouper
Kylie Minogue - Chocolate
1. SOUNDTRACK OF THE DAY
ABBA - Super Trouper
The small faces - Lazy Sunday Afternoon
Handmade Forest Rolling Ball Xylophone plays Bach
Beatles - Day Triper
2. PLACES TO KNOW
Stockholm
3. PEOPLE TO DISCOVER
Ingvar Kamprad, IKEA’s Founder - the frugal billionaire
“Music for one apartment and six drummers.”
“Hi! I’m Ethan, I shop at Ikea. I bought a $300 dining suite and it took me three days to assemble!”
“Brain research tells us that only twenty percent of human beings have a sense of irony, which means that eighty percent of the world takes everything at face value.”
“Where does personality end and brain damage begin?”
“One of the cruelest things you can do to another person is pretend you care about them more than you really do.”
Favourite dinner movies - a very short list.
Mr. or Ms. Gulf Shores Inn
- “Le Diner de Cons”
Stockholm
3. PEOPLE TO DISCOVER
Ingvar Kamprad, IKEA’s Founder - the frugal billionaire
Douglas Coupland - Canadian novelist - the site
4. QUESTION OF THE DAY
5. INSPIRATION
4. QUESTION OF THE DAY
"Got a good reason, for taking the easy way out, now.
She was a day..... tripper, one way ticket, yeah!"
The Beatles
“Music for one apartment and six drummers.”
“Hi! I’m Ethan, I shop at Ikea. I bought a $300 dining suite and it took me three days to assemble!”
“Brain research tells us that only twenty percent of human beings have a sense of irony, which means that eighty percent of the world takes everything at face value.”
“Where does personality end and brain damage begin?”
“One of the cruelest things you can do to another person is pretend you care about them more than you really do.”
Favourite dinner movies - a very short list.
Mr. or Ms. Gulf Shores Inn
- “Le Diner de Cons”
- “Bon Appetit”
Jürgen Pfeiffer
Jürgen Pfeiffer
-“Murder by Death”
Glaucia Burgi - “Parenti Serpenti”
- Chocolat
Brigitte Ockers
Glaucia Burgi - “Parenti Serpenti”
- Chocolat
Brigitte Ockers
-“Little Shop of Horrors”
Rosanna Li
Rosanna Li
- “The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover”
- “Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life”
San-Marie Scheffler
- “Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life”
San-Marie Scheffler
- Like Water For Chocolate”
6. HOMEWORK
If you think about it well, do you have a special place you really like going to? A place that involves a service. It can either be a restaurant, a store, a website... Think of something that is designed in a different way from what we are used to. If you feel like it, you could share a nice picture with us and a few words to let us know about it.
Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art. I think that this Museum has a great service in what making culture accessible concerns.Serralves aims to offer a representative collection of Portuguese and international contemporary art. But the Museum has lots of activities. So it's not just a building with cool art inside. It's very much alive. You can go there often and have different experiences.The building was designed by architect, Álvaro Siza. It's not the pink building you see on the photo. (By the way, these photos are from 2000. Last time I was there it was 2011.) That's Serralves Villa, a unique example of Art Deco architecture, built in the 1930s. These are the gardens. They were inspired by mildly Art Deco also. One of the qualities of Serralves park is the diversity of its set of trees and shrubs. This Museum fascinated me since the first moment. It opened doors in 1999. Everything is very organized and programmed. It's not just the permanent collection and temporary exhibitions that atract me. It's the way everything is organized like programms for education of the public or family visits, workshops, conferences, festivals. The response of the public was awesome. I think that this happened because the Museum was able to create a unique dynamic and community proximity.This Museum fosters the understanding of contemporary art and culture but it promotes a narrow connection with the environment too. To visit Serralves was one of my great pleasures a couple of years ago. Now I can't go so often because I live away from Porto. I also met some of the people who worked there. I attended a course on cultural management and they were my instructors. So I had the chance to learn closely about the Museum and that's how I got to admire it so much.
One last thing. I don't like cooking but I enjoyed the way the instructores designed this week´s tasks. This was like Season 4 of Breaking Bad - I just finished watching it. In the beggining it was a not catching my full attention. But I stayed and watched one episode after another. Finally what was delivered at the end was very satisfatory.
6. HOMEWORK
If you think about it well, do you have a special place you really like going to? A place that involves a service. It can either be a restaurant, a store, a website... Think of something that is designed in a different way from what we are used to. If you feel like it, you could share a nice picture with us and a few words to let us know about it.
One last thing. I don't like cooking but I enjoyed the way the instructores designed this week´s tasks. This was like Season 4 of Breaking Bad - I just finished watching it. In the beggining it was a not catching my full attention. But I stayed and watched one episode after another. Finally what was delivered at the end was very satisfatory.
Saturday, November 23, 2013
And today is Bollywood music, Dabbawalas and service design
WEEK4- DAY6
1. SOUNDTRACK OF THE DAY
Non Stop Bollywood Huge Songs Collection |Jukebox|
1. SOUNDTRACK OF THE DAY
Non Stop Bollywood Huge Songs Collection |Jukebox|
2. PLACES TO KNOW
Mumbai
3. PEOPLE TO DISCOVER
Vikas Swarup, an Indian novelist and diplomat. He wrote“Slumdog Millionaire”...
Sarnath Banerjee, a (very cool) Indian graphic novelist, artist, and filmmaker.
Phantomville-comic publishing house he founded
4. QUESTION OF THE DAY
The video
Another article - What Harvard is learning from Dabawalas
A video on what's service design
Bill Moggridge in: “What is Design?”.
“I seem to get to the heart of what I try to communicate. Among them are intangible
things that I myself don’t fully comprehend or articulate but as long as I draw it I get it across,”
Sarnath Banerjee
The Japanese Bento boxes? Those thin (plastic or lacquered wood) boxes divided into compartments for carrying single-portion meals (usually consisting of rice, fish or meat and vegetables sometime pickled).
Christopher D. Salyers’s “Face Food Recipes: A How-To Guide.”
6.Homework 27
- In the place where you live, are there some typical services? Would you tell us about them? I think we run out of typical a long time ago! I am sorry that the director of this video about Figueira da Foz put a bullfight scene in it and forgot about surf. I don't like bullfighting. That's typical and sad. This city has a bullfight arena.
I just don't like promotional videos. I have a preference for more personnal ones. But this one serves the purpose because this is a city that waits for tourists to come to life. In the summer - July/August - we have a city, in winter we live in another city. Figueira da Foz is a seaside city and back in the 50's it was one of the most famous beaches of Portugal before Algarve's discover by nationals and foreigners.
We have some typical activities - sea salt extraction from ponds and arte xávega, a special kind of fishing that uses a small typical rowing boat. The nets are cast out into the sea and later they are hauled in. The fish are then sold on the beach. Animals used to pull the boats, not anymore, of course. But I'm not aware of any particular typical services.
- What kind of service could you imagine in order to improve the life of the people around you? Well, I sold my car a few years ago. Even if the city is small and there are plenty of taxis, I think that this city could use an alternative for bus transportation. They do not cover our needs. There are few circulating. I think that a system of small ecological community vehicles would be a great idea. Or small cars using alternative power - like old cooking oil from a lot of the restaurants we have - that we could pick up on a park and leave on a destination like we do with rental cars...
Think about what you did during our Kitchen Stories’ week. What’s your specialty? I am not into cooking. But some years ago I enjoyed cake decoration. It was nice to set the table for my friends also.
If you were to set up your own service company (related to food), What could it possibly be? Maybe be decorated cakes company? Sometimes I stumble upon fantastic cake photos for special occasions.They do not look edible, they are just too pretty to be eaten! I would not mind to learn more about it!
Mumbai
3. PEOPLE TO DISCOVER
Vikas Swarup, an Indian novelist and diplomat. He wrote“Slumdog Millionaire”...
Sarnath Banerjee, a (very cool) Indian graphic novelist, artist, and filmmaker.
Phantomville-comic publishing house he founded
4. QUESTION OF THE DAY
5. INSPIRATION
Dabbawala = Build your organisation around people. Stay true to your core purpose.Encourage self-discipline. Create a sense of ownership...More tips!
This is contemporary service design at its best! 100% Made in India. In the Indian culture, people like “dabbawalas” are considered as “annadattas” (the person who provides food). Upon tradition, they are very well respected and known as very trustworthy citizens.
The Lunch Box movie. One of Mumbai's miracles is the lunchbox delivery phenomenon. Mumbai's Dabbawallahs are a community of 5000 dabba (lunchbox) deliverymen. It is a hereditary profession. Every morning the Dabbawallahs deliver hot meals from the kitchens of housewives to the offices of their husbands, and then return the empty lunchboxes back to the homes in the afternoon.
An article Stefano wrote with his friend Vinay Venkatraman on dabawalas.
Dabbawala = Build your organisation around people. Stay true to your core purpose.Encourage self-discipline. Create a sense of ownership...More tips!
This is contemporary service design at its best! 100% Made in India. In the Indian culture, people like “dabbawalas” are considered as “annadattas” (the person who provides food). Upon tradition, they are very well respected and known as very trustworthy citizens.
The Lunch Box movie. One of Mumbai's miracles is the lunchbox delivery phenomenon. Mumbai's Dabbawallahs are a community of 5000 dabba (lunchbox) deliverymen. It is a hereditary profession. Every morning the Dabbawallahs deliver hot meals from the kitchens of housewives to the offices of their husbands, and then return the empty lunchboxes back to the homes in the afternoon.
An article Stefano wrote with his friend Vinay Venkatraman on dabawalas.
The video
A video on what's service design
Bill Moggridge in: “What is Design?”.
“I seem to get to the heart of what I try to communicate. Among them are intangible
things that I myself don’t fully comprehend or articulate but as long as I draw it I get it across,”
Sarnath Banerjee
The Japanese Bento boxes? Those thin (plastic or lacquered wood) boxes divided into compartments for carrying single-portion meals (usually consisting of rice, fish or meat and vegetables sometime pickled).
Christopher D. Salyers’s “Face Food Recipes: A How-To Guide.”
6.Homework 27
- In the place where you live, are there some typical services? Would you tell us about them? I think we run out of typical a long time ago! I am sorry that the director of this video about Figueira da Foz put a bullfight scene in it and forgot about surf. I don't like bullfighting. That's typical and sad. This city has a bullfight arena.
I just don't like promotional videos. I have a preference for more personnal ones. But this one serves the purpose because this is a city that waits for tourists to come to life. In the summer - July/August - we have a city, in winter we live in another city. Figueira da Foz is a seaside city and back in the 50's it was one of the most famous beaches of Portugal before Algarve's discover by nationals and foreigners.
We have some typical activities - sea salt extraction from ponds and arte xávega, a special kind of fishing that uses a small typical rowing boat. The nets are cast out into the sea and later they are hauled in. The fish are then sold on the beach. Animals used to pull the boats, not anymore, of course. But I'm not aware of any particular typical services.
- What kind of service could you imagine in order to improve the life of the people around you? Well, I sold my car a few years ago. Even if the city is small and there are plenty of taxis, I think that this city could use an alternative for bus transportation. They do not cover our needs. There are few circulating. I think that a system of small ecological community vehicles would be a great idea. Or small cars using alternative power - like old cooking oil from a lot of the restaurants we have - that we could pick up on a park and leave on a destination like we do with rental cars...
Think about what you did during our Kitchen Stories’ week. What’s your specialty? I am not into cooking. But some years ago I enjoyed cake decoration. It was nice to set the table for my friends also.
If you were to set up your own service company (related to food), What could it possibly be? Maybe be decorated cakes company? Sometimes I stumble upon fantastic cake photos for special occasions.They do not look edible, they are just too pretty to be eaten! I would not mind to learn more about it!
Friday, November 22, 2013
Sachertorte Day
WEEK4-DAY5
1. SOUNDTRACK OF THE DAY
Johann Strauss - The Blue Danube Waltz / Wiener Walzer
2. PLACES TO KNOW
Vienna - City of dreams BBC documentary
The Hundertwasserhaus - more about the apartment house here
3. PEOPLE TO DISCOVER
These are not suggestions from the instructors. These are just a few names that came to mind when I think about Vienna. Pick one and discover all about it.
Sigmund Freud
Gustav Klimt
Fritz Lang
Niki Lauda
Egon Schiele
Franz Shubert
1. SOUNDTRACK OF THE DAY
Johann Strauss - The Blue Danube Waltz / Wiener Walzer
2. PLACES TO KNOW
Vienna - City of dreams BBC documentary
The Hundertwasserhaus - more about the apartment house here
3. PEOPLE TO DISCOVER
These are not suggestions from the instructors. These are just a few names that came to mind when I think about Vienna. Pick one and discover all about it.
Sigmund Freud
Gustav Klimt
Fritz Lang
Niki Lauda
Egon Schiele
Franz Shubert
Erich von Stroheim
Marie Antoinette
Peter Drucker
Karl Popper
Arnold Schonberg
Erich von Stroheim
Christoph Waltz
Hedy Lamarr
4. QUESTION OF THE DAY
5. INSPIRATION
Franz Sacher invented the SacherTorte. Franz was sixteen-year-old when he
invented it. He was given the task by his cooking master, the head chef of Prince von Metternich’s kitchen. A very important dinner was planned and at the last minute, the head chef fell ill and
had to rely on his young apprentice. A lot of pressure was put on Franz that day. The Prince declared one thing: “Let there be no shame on me tonight”
Marios Evr sent this quote:
“Start from wherever you are and with whatever you’ve got.”
Luis Bunuel: The adventures of Robinson Crusoe movie.
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Violet becomes a blueberry after chewing a special gum?
Watch the "Little people" in a video from a wonky remix of Devo's cover of the Stones classic.
6. HOMEWORK 26
Ingredientes para a Sachertorte
140 g de chocolate amargo
150 g de açúcar
170 g de manteiga amolecida
5 ovos, separados
100 g de farinha de trigo
Recheio
8 colheres (sopa) de compota de damasco
Cobertura para a tarte
1 colher (sopa) de manteiga amolecida
110 g chocolate amargo picado
6 colheres (sopa) de café forte coado
175 g de açúcar de confeiteiro
1 colher (sopa) de extrato de baunilha
Modo de preparar da tarte:
Preaquecer o forno a 170ºC.
Derreter 140 g de chocolate em banho-maria.
Bater as claras em ponto de neve até formarem picos firmes. Adicionar à massa.
Cozer a torta no forno pre-aquecido por 50 a 60 minutos.
Como preparar a cobertura?
Peter Drucker
Karl Popper
Arnold Schonberg
Erich von Stroheim
Christoph Waltz
Hedy Lamarr
4. QUESTION OF THE DAY
5. INSPIRATION
Franz Sacher invented the SacherTorte. Franz was sixteen-year-old when he
invented it. He was given the task by his cooking master, the head chef of Prince von Metternich’s kitchen. A very important dinner was planned and at the last minute, the head chef fell ill and
had to rely on his young apprentice. A lot of pressure was put on Franz that day. The Prince declared one thing: “Let there be no shame on me tonight”
Marios Evr sent this quote:
“Start from wherever you are and with whatever you’ve got.”
Jim Rohn
Luis Bunuel: The adventures of Robinson Crusoe movie.
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Violet becomes a blueberry after chewing a special gum?
Watch the "Little people" in a video from a wonky remix of Devo's cover of the Stones classic.
6. HOMEWORK 26
Ingredientes para a Sachertorte
140 g de chocolate amargo
150 g de açúcar
170 g de manteiga amolecida
5 ovos, separados
100 g de farinha de trigo
Recheio
8 colheres (sopa) de compota de damasco
Cobertura para a tarte
1 colher (sopa) de manteiga amolecida
110 g chocolate amargo picado
6 colheres (sopa) de café forte coado
175 g de açúcar de confeiteiro
1 colher (sopa) de extrato de baunilha
Modo de preparar da tarte:
Preaquecer o forno a 170ºC.
Derreter 140 g de chocolate em banho-maria.
Retirar do fogo e deixar esfriar.
Bater a manteiga e o açúcar até obter um creme leve e fofo. Acrescentar as gemas pouco a pouco e bater até chegarem a um tom claro. Adicionar o chocolate derretido frio e volte a bater. Gradualmente juntar a farinha peneirada.
Bater a manteiga e o açúcar até obter um creme leve e fofo. Acrescentar as gemas pouco a pouco e bater até chegarem a um tom claro. Adicionar o chocolate derretido frio e volte a bater. Gradualmente juntar a farinha peneirada.
Bater as claras em ponto de neve até formarem picos firmes. Adicionar à massa.
Despejar em forma de fundo removível, de 23 cm, não untada.
Cozer a torta no forno pre-aquecido por 50 a 60 minutos.
Deixar esfriar por completo antes de retirar da forma para cortar em duas metades e colocar a cobertura.
Rechear com a compota de damasco.
Coloque a cobertura de chocolate quente na parte de cima e nas laterais.
Como preparar a cobertura?
Derreter 1 colher (sopa) de manteiga e 110 g de chocolate em banho-maria. Adicionar o café e bater bem. Peneirar o açúcar de confeiteiro, acrescentando-o com 1 colher (chá) de baunilha.Preparar: 30 mins
Cozimento: 1 hora
Pronto em: 1 hora e 30 minutos
This was quite an adventure. First I had to choose a recipe. There are many available in the internet. How do I know what's the best? Which should I choose? I did not have many eggs so I picked one with just 5 eggs. Preparing the ingredients is easy. Bu then I did not have a proper cake tin to take it in the oven. Mine have a hole in the middle. As I will not do a lot of tartes in the future I did not rush to buy one. I used a pot. The topping was the challenge. I think the icing chocolate is too thick. I am always afraid of toppings. Some years ago I used to bake cakes for my family birthdays. Some times the icing just went terribly wrong and I had to improvise! Also I hate to spoil food. The little people are artists, thinkers and other talented people that were born in Vienna. Some of them are really my favorite, like Egon Shiele. I would like to go back in time and party with some of these people!
Thursday, November 21, 2013
Dinner for mom
WEEK4-DAY 4
1. SOUNDTRACK OF THE DAY
Michel Pagliaro - Fou de toi (Canadian Rock'n Roll)
2. PLACES TO KNOW
Montreal - Portuguese Tv show about Portugueses no Mundo
Expo 67’s American pavilion - Biosphère - a video from 1967
3. PEOPLE TO DISCOVER
Bucky Fuller
4. QUESTION OF THE DAY
5. INSPIRATION
“As any epicure knows, a fair is no fair unless it serves an ungreasy, non-rubbery hot dog and French fries that do not taste like shoestrings swimming limply in lard. Expo meets these primary gastronomic standards in first-rate style. For 35 cents you can buy a succulent chien chaud (Québecois for a wiener on a bun). And the patates frites (French for fried potatoes) are firm and crunchy at 25 cents for a good serving.”
“Babette’s Feast”, based on a story by Karen Blixen.
After Babette spent all her life’s money on a special dinner, she was told that she’d be poor for the rest of her life. Her response was: “No, I shall never be poor. I told you that I am a great artist. A great artist, Mesdames, is never poor. We have something, Mesdames, of which other people know nothing.”
Jorgen Leth’s The Perfect Human.
Gibeau Orange Julep, a restaurant, a giant orange hosting a “cassecroûte”.
“Spherification is kitchen alchemy; a technique that enables you to imbue a flavorful liquid with the appearance of being solid, an illusion that’s broken when the spheres burst with flavor as they’re eaten.” Do you want to learn it?
Checking some Molecular Recipes
The peasant wedding by Pieter Bruegel the Old.
Andy Warhol’s 32 Campbell’s soup cans
“A Series of Notebook Illustrations of Characters At The Dinner Table.”
6. HOMEWORK 25
The peasant wedding by Pieter Bruegel the Old.
Andy Warhol’s 32 Campbell’s soup cans
“A Series of Notebook Illustrations of Characters At The Dinner Table.”
6. HOMEWORK 25
It's the green beans soup again. My mother had the flu recently and this last week temperatures in Portugal dropped and she got hill again. She went to the doctor and this time she is on antibiotics. The doctor told her that she should be in bed. But she is stuborn. She gets up in the morning and stays up. She just goes to bed earlier than usual, when sun starts to disappear and the house gets colder. She has lost her appetite. Even so she said the soup is delicious. My mother does not like what I cook. That's the rule. What I know about cooking I learned from her. I try to cook her way but food always tastes differently! A mistery!
Wednesday, November 20, 2013
Tools of the trade
WEEK4-DAY3
1. SOUNDTRACK OF THE DAY
Top 10 Lebanese songs 2012-2013
2. PLACES TO KNOW
Lebanon - Beirut and in the city in a minute. I have a dear friend from Beirut. Her name is Neda.
B018 Club
Inside B018
B018 was designed by Bernard Khoury
3. PEOPLE TO DISCOVER
Bernard Khoury - the site
Kahlil Gibran - a famous Lebanese artist/poet/writer best known for his book The prophet.
“Half of what I say is meaningless, but I say it so that the other half may reach you.”
4. QUESTION OF THE DAY
5. INSPIRATION
“Planning a dinner party in a way that you’re actually capable of getting it done without panicking is important. It’s bad hospitality for the host to be freaked out.”
“The honorable and upright man keeps well away from both the slaughterhouse and the kitchen. And he allows no knives on his table.”
The Moscardino - one of the most curious inventions in contemporary Italian design. It serves as a fork and a spoon at the same time. A perfect tool to have for the Milanese Aperitivo that was designed by Giulio Iacchetti.
A project of Giulio Iacchetti - Coltelli Inutili.
1. SOUNDTRACK OF THE DAY
Top 10 Lebanese songs 2012-2013
2. PLACES TO KNOW
Lebanon - Beirut and in the city in a minute. I have a dear friend from Beirut. Her name is Neda.
B018 Club
Inside B018
B018 was designed by Bernard Khoury
3. PEOPLE TO DISCOVER
Bernard Khoury - the site
Kahlil Gibran - a famous Lebanese artist/poet/writer best known for his book The prophet.
“Half of what I say is meaningless, but I say it so that the other half may reach you.”
4. QUESTION OF THE DAY
5. INSPIRATION
“Planning a dinner party in a way that you’re actually capable of getting it done without panicking is important. It’s bad hospitality for the host to be freaked out.”
“The honorable and upright man keeps well away from both the slaughterhouse and the kitchen. And he allows no knives on his table.”
Confucius
The biography of Confucius
The Moscardino - one of the most curious inventions in contemporary Italian design. It serves as a fork and a spoon at the same time. A perfect tool to have for the Milanese Aperitivo that was designed by Giulio Iacchetti.
A project of Giulio Iacchetti - Coltelli Inutili.
A project by George Laramy patented in 1907 - the spork.
¨Frankfurter Kuche¨, Germany, 1920’s, - A kitchen based on the concept of scientific management to improve efficiency and productivity, the Frankfurt kitchen was designed to maximize functional, spatial and economical factors. The mother of all modern kitchens!
6. HOMEWORK
I have prepared a light dinner for me and three friends. In the cooking process, I took a picture of cooking tools. In a short caption I will say if I managed properly all the tools. Then, I must tell about my social tools (if everything went well, if my friends seemed happy and comfortable).
All I did was a soup with green beans and carrots. My friends are vegetarian. It was the first time I invited them. I am not vegetarian but I eat few meat and fish. I set the table with dark bread, olives, wine. They brought a green lasagna. They explained how they do it. No meat, just green things. And they use soy milk. It was pretty good. We had no music on because we had a lot to talk about since it has been maybe one year since we met. For me it was fun to know because I'm fond of vegetarian cuisine and I think I will become a veggy some day.
7. FLOWERS FOR FRIENDS
8. So fluffy I could die
Good manners at table video
¨Frankfurter Kuche¨, Germany, 1920’s, - A kitchen based on the concept of scientific management to improve efficiency and productivity, the Frankfurt kitchen was designed to maximize functional, spatial and economical factors. The mother of all modern kitchens!
6. HOMEWORK
I have prepared a light dinner for me and three friends. In the cooking process, I took a picture of cooking tools. In a short caption I will say if I managed properly all the tools. Then, I must tell about my social tools (if everything went well, if my friends seemed happy and comfortable).
7. FLOWERS FOR FRIENDS
8. So fluffy I could die
Good manners at table video
Tuesday, November 19, 2013
Whatever seems sinful
WEEK4-DAY2
1. SOUNDTRACK OF THE DAY
1. SOUNDTRACK OF THE DAY
Video with photos and music. "Sindhi people of Sindh, ancient historical land in south Pakistan (with capital in Karachi), one of five provinces of Pakistan. Home to 35 millions of Sindhi people. The region received its name, Sindh, from the River Sindhu (Indus), and the people living in the region are referred to as Sindhi."
2. PLACES TO KNOW
Hyderabad, Sindh, Pakistan
Trucks painting
3. PEOPLE TO DISCOVER
Bernard Rudofsky
Julia Child - a good example of someone who knew about “how-tos” and telling good stories.
“I think you have to decide who your audience is. If you don’t pick your audience, you’re lost because you’re not really talking to anybody. My audience is people who like to cook, who want to really learn how to do it.”
What her kitchen looked like? - It was taken to the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History. A site where we can see it.
Julia Child on the cover of TIME Magazine in 1966
6. Hands on - share a picture of recipe starting ingredients. Nothing less, nothing more.
2. PLACES TO KNOW
Hyderabad, Sindh, Pakistan
Trucks painting
3. PEOPLE TO DISCOVER
Bernard Rudofsky
The site
Transcript of the interview with Bernard Rudofsky
AS: People define you as a fanatical traveler...
BR: Getting to know strangers is one way of getting to know one’s self; learning about the architecture of other countries permits us to see our own architecture in a new light.
AS: Yes. Anyways, thanks for taking us back to Hyderabad with you. The roofscape is impressive.
BR: Eh… the air-conditioners of Hyderabad sind... A primitive solution before our cumbersome technology. Most of them were replaced by mechanical air conditioning with the chimneys being used to install satellite dishes.
AS: Oh...
BR: What do you expect? We listen to a machine instead of making music. We have lost our sensual awareness.
AS: I see...
BR: It’s our mind and body that suffers.
AS: Any advice for the young?
BR: Yes, value the pleasure of food, a relaxing bath, or whatever seems sinful.
4. QUESTION OF THE DAY
5. INSPIRATION
The super windcatchers, or “bad-gir” of Hyderabad - This special system for naturally ventilating houses was used for over five hundred years.
Transcript of the interview with Bernard Rudofsky
AS: People define you as a fanatical traveler...
BR: Getting to know strangers is one way of getting to know one’s self; learning about the architecture of other countries permits us to see our own architecture in a new light.
AS: Yes. Anyways, thanks for taking us back to Hyderabad with you. The roofscape is impressive.
BR: Eh… the air-conditioners of Hyderabad sind... A primitive solution before our cumbersome technology. Most of them were replaced by mechanical air conditioning with the chimneys being used to install satellite dishes.
AS: Oh...
BR: What do you expect? We listen to a machine instead of making music. We have lost our sensual awareness.
AS: I see...
BR: It’s our mind and body that suffers.
AS: Any advice for the young?
BR: Yes, value the pleasure of food, a relaxing bath, or whatever seems sinful.
4. QUESTION OF THE DAY
5. INSPIRATION
The super windcatchers, or “bad-gir” of Hyderabad - This special system for naturally ventilating houses was used for over five hundred years.
Windcatchers story
“Architecture without Architects.” - book
“Are Clothes Modern? An essay on contemporary apparel” - book after Moma Exhibition and here's the press release
“Architecture without Architects.” - book
“Are Clothes Modern? An essay on contemporary apparel” - book after Moma Exhibition and here's the press release
“The modern tendency in dress is toward elimination. Man seeks comfort;
the young woman seeks attention.”
“I’m always excited by the unlikely, never by ordinary things.”
David Hockney
“I think you have to decide who your audience is. If you don’t pick your audience, you’re lost because you’re not really talking to anybody. My audience is people who like to cook, who want to really learn how to do it.”
A movie about her - Julia and Julia
What her kitchen looked like? - It was taken to the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History. A site where we can see it.
Julia Child on the cover of TIME Magazine in 1966
6. Hands on - share a picture of recipe starting ingredients. Nothing less, nothing more.
Monday, November 18, 2013
In the kitchen
WEEK4 - DAY 1 - KITCHEN STORIES
1. SOUNDTRACK OF THE DAY
Oh Carol - Chuck Berry and Keith RichardsYou'll Always Find Me In The Kitchen At Parties - JONA LEWIE
2. PLACES TO KNOW
London - a documentary on the city
3. PEOPLE TO DISCOVER
Martino Gamper
The site
Total Trattoria Project - Gamper has designed every single element of the dining event ranging from the kitchen and its storage areas to the cutlery and the tables and chairs to the glassware.
100 chairs in 100 days - project - "Didn’t make one hundred chairs just for myself or even in an effort to rescue a few hundred unwanted chairs from the streets. The motivation was the methodology: the process of making, of producing and absolutely not striving for the perfect one."
5. INSPIRATION
Kitchen Stories - Swedish efficiency researchers make a study of Norwegian men to see how they use the kitchen.
Table manners and etiquette
SacherTorte
“The man who can dominate a London dinnertable can dominate the world.”
Harry Beck - all about him and the subway map of London. One of the most impressive design of the whole XXth Century.
London Transport Museum - site
On the 1981 recession: “A few years ago, everybody was saying we must have more leisure, everyone’s working too much. Now everybody’s got more leisure time they’re complaining they’re unemployed. People don’t seem to make up their minds what they want.”
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh's quotes "British women can't cook."
“...At last I met a pretty girl,
She laughed and talked with me
We both walked out of the kitchen
And danced in a new way...
You’ll always find me in the kitchen at parties.”
Jona Lewie
“I will not eat oysters. I want my food dead. Not sick. Not wounded. Dead.”
The MoMa exhibition “Counter Space: Design and the Modern Kitchen.”
IKEA commercial In the kitchen
Die Frankfurter Küche - The Frankfurt kitchen was a milestone in domestic architecture, considered the fore-runner of modern fitted kitchens, for it realised for the first time a kitchen built after a unified concept, designed to enable efficient work and to be built at low cost. It was designed in 1926 by Austrian architect Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky for the social housing project Römerstadt in Frankfurt, Germany of architect Ernst May. Some 10,000 units were built in the late 1920s in Frankfurt. (Student Anja Titze shared this link)
7. FLOWERS FOR FRIENDS
1. SOUNDTRACK OF THE DAY
Oh Carol - Chuck Berry and Keith RichardsYou'll Always Find Me In The Kitchen At Parties - JONA LEWIE
2. PLACES TO KNOW
London - a documentary on the city
3. PEOPLE TO DISCOVER
Martino Gamper
The site
Total Trattoria Project - Gamper has designed every single element of the dining event ranging from the kitchen and its storage areas to the cutlery and the tables and chairs to the glassware.
100 chairs in 100 days - project - "Didn’t make one hundred chairs just for myself or even in an effort to rescue a few hundred unwanted chairs from the streets. The motivation was the methodology: the process of making, of producing and absolutely not striving for the perfect one."
4. QUESTION OF THE DAY
Kitchen Stories - Swedish efficiency researchers make a study of Norwegian men to see how they use the kitchen.
Table manners and etiquette
SacherTorte
The original
(They are saying that on Friday we will bake one of these. I like anything with chocolate. So, no problem. My big problem is: I DON'T LIKE TO COOK!)
“The man who can dominate a London dinnertable can dominate the world.”
Oscar Wilde
Harry Beck - all about him and the subway map of London. One of the most impressive design of the whole XXth Century.
London Transport Museum - site
On the 1981 recession: “A few years ago, everybody was saying we must have more leisure, everyone’s working too much. Now everybody’s got more leisure time they’re complaining they’re unemployed. People don’t seem to make up their minds what they want.”
Prince Philip, Duke of Edimburgh
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh's quotes "British women can't cook."
We do it, we do it again, once more, and once more.
We do as many times as we need to get it right.
(The instructors)
“...At last I met a pretty girl,
She laughed and talked with me
We both walked out of the kitchen
And danced in a new way...
You’ll always find me in the kitchen at parties.”
Jona Lewie
“I will not eat oysters. I want my food dead. Not sick. Not wounded. Dead.”
Woody Allen
The MoMa exhibition “Counter Space: Design and the Modern Kitchen.”
IKEA commercial In the kitchen
6. More...
7. FLOWERS FOR FRIENDS
Numbers
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- 466 students on the map. I guess many don't know about it. Iversity platform is not easy to navigate.- 5 Portuguese students. I met two of them! One student is from Viana do Castelo, the other one is from Castelo Branco. She's from South Wales but she's living in Portugal, enjoying it andstruggling with Portuguese language...good luck to her!
- 1658 students can be found on Facebook Design101 Arena Group
- 27.000 enrolled Design 101...
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