Lady in red

WEEK13 - DAY1 - DRESSING PEOPLE

1. SOUNDTRACK OF THE DAY

Chris de Bourgh - Lady in red

Ru Paul - Supermodel of the world

David Bowie - Fashion

2. PLACES TO KNOW

Offenburg, Germany

3. PEOPLE TO DISCOVER

Aenne Burda

4. QUESTION OF THE DAY

5. INSPIRATION

Burda Style Pattern Store - In 1950, Aenne Burda published the first issue of “Burda Moden” magazine. People immediately loved it! And then (two years later), the magazine became even more popular because it included patterns to make clothes.Today, the magazine is published in 16 different languages and spread all around the world!

“My aim is to put together practical fashions at an affordable price that can be worn by the largest possible number of women,” said Mrs. Burda.
“Dressing up. People just don’t do it anymore. We have to change that,” John Galliano.

“I am attracted to people who make this effort in knowing what suits them - they are individual and stylish.”

“If you wear clothes that don’t suit you, you’re a fashion victim. You have to wear clothes that make you look better.” (Vivienne Westwood)

Coco Chanel.

“Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only. Fashion is in the sky, in the street, fashion has to do with ideas, the way we live, what is happening.”

“Where should one use perfume?” a young woman asked. “Wherever one wants to be kissed.”

6. HOMEWORK - Making clothes


7. EXTRAS

Fabulous fashionistas - documentary
100 years of fashion video
Origami with clothes - Contribution of Rosanna Li
Elementum - Contribution of Katjha Mathan

We do not need to understand the Universe

WEEK12- DAY7

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...

Sustainability

WEEK12-DAY6

1. Soundtrack of the day

Bob Dylan - All along the watchtower

2. Places to go

Den Haag/The Hague/La Haye/La Haya

Netherlands

3. People to know

Theo Jansen

4. Question of the day

5. Inspiration

“Strandbeests” of Theo Jansen - “over time, these skeletons have become increasingly better at surviving the elements such as storms and water, and eventually I want to put these animals out in herds on the beaches, so they will live their own lives.”

"There must be some way out of here’ said the joker to the thief. 

‘There’s too much confusion, I can’t get no relief" - Boba Dylan

Tammy Lu - “ways out there”.

Kirsten Lepore

Here’s a very lovely story between a sand man and a snow lady, sending each other messages in a bottle.

Superstudio - Peter Lang - Life without objects

Superstudio - Think about sustainability and things because it’s a fashionable theme these days.

Sandcastle suburb - installation by Chad Wright

Imaginary Archaeology Museum - In 1948-1950, Bruno and his son started a game - an intellectual adventure on using reconstruction and observation methods associated with archaeology to “act like an archaeologist. Continue reading here.

“The fossilization process conserves things from the past for the future.” says Munari.

“At the Natural History Museum you can see the remains of some unknown animal, put together to show how it would be if alive. Using the same principle you can not only build animals for the Museum but “imaginary Objects” as well putting together bits of unidentifiable odds and ends. Amazing!”
A cool Mercedes V12 engine built with hand-forged components of
bone, wood, fossils and 50 other materials.

6. Homework
Think about how you would see the way out there. Your ideal way of living.

Anywhere near the beach is fine for me. Eating fish and seafood, fruits and vegetables. With lots of fresh air to breathe and warm weather. Wonderful sunsets to watch instead of TV! A simple, small and functional house made of wood that uses solar energy and that has a small piece of land attached so I can grow some things, maybe with one or two trees...Good internet connection...a dog.:) Is it too much to ask?

7. Extras

An online journey of 101 days celebrated into 101 projects

Big announcement on the platform today.

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 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. 

Glowing in the dark

WEEK12 - DAY5

1. Soundtrack of the day

Jaqueline Taieb - 7 heure du matin

2. People to meet

 Gordon Matta-Clark

3. Places to go

Poughkeepsie, New York

4. Question of the day

5. Inspiration

 “Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree, a long time ago...” Warren Buffett

Johan Huizinga - “Play is free, is in fact freedom. Play is not “ordinary” or “real” life. Play creates order, is order. Play demands order absolute and supreme.”

“The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.” Franklin D. Roosevelt 

“What is needed, rather than running away or controlling or suppressing or any other resistance, is understanding fear; that means, watch it, learn about it, come directly into contact with it. We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it.” Jiddu Krishnamurti

Some videos:

Gordon Matta-Clark, Splitting

Gordon Matta-Clark, Conical Intersect (Not found)

One more link, about Johan Huizinga’s - Homo Ludens. Here is the pdf.

6. Homework

I could not take the tent to the park. Too muddy, too wet. And my digital camera will no capture enough if I let the night fall completly. But this is it.

Public space

WEEK12- DAY4

1. SOUNDTRACK OF THE DAY

2. PLACES TO KNOW

London

3. PEOPLE TO DISCOVER

Lucy Orta: www.studio-orta.com

Lucy mixes fashion and architecture. She made a really cool survival kit for the “modern nomad” (a coat that turns into a backpack and a tent).

4. QUESTION OF THE DAY

5. INSPIRATION

T.S. Eliot - “Between the idea and the reality. Between the motion and the act. Falls the shadow.”

Design is a balancing act. Between what you know and what allows yourself to discover.

6. HOMEWORK

Bring your tent outside. During the day.

You can chose whether you go to a park, or into the woods.

Ideally, the space you choose should be a public one.

Let the elements rage, you will be safe, in your own refuge.

But, sometimes, the unexpected, the unplanned happens. A gust

of wind opens a seam, the rain leaks in and all is ruined...

Not so good to go outside.

This nest should hang from a tree. But I can use it in the balcony.

Focus on the joints

WEEK12-DAY3

1. Soundtrack of the day

2. People to meet

Ludwig Mies Van der Rohe

3. Places to know

Chicago

4. Question of the day

5. Inspiration

Museum for a Small City

Architecture deals with the planning, design and construction of form, space and ambience. It is about assembling materials. It is about making space.

As Charles Eames says: “Eventually everything connects -people, ideas, objects. The quality of the connections is the key to quality per se”.

Leon Theremin - The man who invented the theremin, one of the first electronic musical instruments and the first to be mass produced.

Orson Welles was really one of the best storytellers in History. Did you know that he had his weekly radio show on CBS and that one day in 1938, he made America believe that Martian were invading and devastating the New Jersey countryside?

A documentary series by BBC: The Genius of Design.

6. Homework 

Today, you will assemble the components of your tent.
Start putting the pieces together...
The ones you fabricated yesterday.
Focus on the joints.
Joints seem like a minor theme, but they are actually the most important part of the whole. Photos - One of the work in progress and one of the final result.

Planning a shelter

WEEK12 - DAY2

1. Soundtrack of the day

The cinematic orchestra - To build a home

2. People to meet

Christo and Jeanne-Claude they were born at the exact same time. Their 3100 umbrellas (1760 in California / 1340 in Japan, Ibaraki) opened simultaneously in both countries. Christo and Jeanne-Claude say that their projects generate love, tenderness and freedom.They chose yellow and blue as their colors because  the project took place in summer, it made sense to fit with the “local landscapes.

3. Places to discover

Tejon Ranch, California

4. Question of the day

5. Inspiration

Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s work

Conversations with Artists: Christo and Jeanne-Claude...

Three quotes by Clint Eastwood:

“If you think it’s going to rain, it will.”

“Everybody thinks making films back to back is a big deal but they did it all the time in the old days.”

“I thought I might die. But then I thought other people have made it through these things before. I kept my eyes on the lights on shore and kept swimming.” 

Remember Orson Welles. F for Fake. A few lines about it...

To build a home

This is a place where I don’t feel alone
This is a place where I feel at home.
And I built a home
for you, for me... 
Out in the garden where we planted the seeds 
There is a tree as old as me 
Branches were sewn by the color of green 
Ground had arose and passed its knees... 
And I built a home 
for you, for me
Until it disappeared
from me, from you
And now, it’s time to leave and turn to dust...

6. Homework

Today, you will plan your tent. Your own personal shelter to protect yourself from things. Freestanding shapes and modules to be opened and closed... Once you have your plan, you will fabricate yourshelter’s components. When you’re ready, share three pictures with us. One of your shelter’s “plan”, another one of it’s components, and finally, one taken of the notes from your personal
notebook. Remember that you should document your whole journey!

The plan:

The components and notes

(As you know I recycle paper all the time. This year I found an use for old planners. My sister gave a couple of new old planners. I am using it as notebooks. I don't like to share my notebooks. Period. I said it before. I ask what can you possible gain by watching my silly notes and drawings. But here it is.)

7.EXTRAS
Outdoor shelter typesHow to build a tipi
Reliable tent and tipi
A thicket
Tentsile tents
Hanging tent
Suspended tents
House in trees
The sting ray tent
Tree tent

Where does design starts?

Link 

The making of 

 

Got another 12! Quiz, you're no mystery to me!

The influential British architect dealing with penguins was Berthold Lubetkin.

The influential British designer often associated to Naoto Fukasawa is Jasper Morrison.

Here you have a link to get a glimpse of the book.
The famous prehistoric temple is Stonehenge.
Ryōan-ji temple (and its rock garden), it is very famous and important, but it has nothing to do with Bruno Munari’s book.

Rock balancing. Isn’t it cool?
Fischli and Weiss piece is called: “Rock on top of another rock.”

Mr. Goldsworthy is another cool chap. For instance, if we Google image his name...
The mailman who spent all his life building a castle with found stones, wasn’t English but French. His name was Ferdinand Cheval.

Gerrit Rietveld designed a lot of fantastic chairs, but he never made one with wire.
Thonet is a famous furniture design company. But they are famous for wood, not wire.
Castiglioni brothers made a lot of chairs, but like Rietveld and Thonet, not wire around.

Eames. Here is a link. And here is another one.

Check out this link and stay speechless (as we are). There is no cook with his name (or maybe there is, but he is not relevant to us). Martha Schwartz designed a lot of parks, but none with this name.
If you want to see something nice, here is the link.

If you never heard about Calder’s Circus, it is time to fix this.
If you never heard about Calder’s mobiles, again, it is now time for you to check this out.

Check the Wikipedia entry on her. Here is the fur-covered cup. Here is her well-known nurse-maid.
Here we go with the Traccia table, and finally, here you have her mesmerizing paper coat.

Here is the link, in case you missed it.
Elio Caccavale designed a lot of things for pigs, but never did a haired glass.
Toni Dunne and Fiona Raby designed a lot of weird (and beautiful) stuff, but never did such a hairy thing.

Here you have his website.
And here you have some images.

Propp was about fairy tales, not metaphors.
Josef Albers was about colors and their interaction, not metaphors.
John Berger was about way of seeing.
Sottsass' book is a mind opener. Try to get one!

I am a woman of the Age of caves

WEEK12-DAY1 - Road to nowhere

1. SOUNDTRACK OF THE DAY

Road to nowhere

2. PLACES TO KNOW

Lascaux caves and drawings, France

3. PEOPLE TO DISCOVER

Marshall McLuhan is discussing the Tribal Age. According to him, it marks the beginning of Media History.

Marshall McLuhan - “the medium is the message”. 

4. QUESTION OF THE DAY

5. INSPIRATION

“Now, go out and build something cool. Out in the woods.” Chinese Proverb

Design is to plan trips and making them happen.

Paul Klee - Check Klee’s art.

“Our ancestors used sections of the caves as palaeolithic cathedrals, decorated with paint and accompanied by singing.”  Iegor Reznikoff.

Noise: a human history - video

 http://www.livescience.com/2647-cave-men-loved-sing.html
http://www.abc.net.au/sci.../articles/2008/07/03/2293114.htm
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/.../080702-cave...

“Drawing is still basically the same as it has been since prehistoric times. It brings together man and the world. It lives through magic.”Keith Haring

Haring site

6. Homework:

At the end of the week you will build a house for yourself. A simple house. We’ll call it a shelter.

The journey is almost ending!

The course will officially start on October 28, 2013 and end on February 5, 2014.

Content of the course/journey:

The road travelled:

The various things to do (so-called “hands-on” activities) will be divided into 14 units, one per week.
-Intro: Acquaint yourself with the course’s dynamics.
-Myself: Represent one's self.
-My diary: Learn about the design process by creating a very simple object.
-Kitchen Stories: Become an expert at something and develop basic social skills.
-Visiting You: Look back at what we have done so far.
-It’s alive: Design as a garden.
-Voyage into my room: Understand interior spaces, plans and measures.
-Making things: Get familiar with shapes, colors, materials. Plan a series.
-Christmas break: Lots of greetings + some more.
-Zoom out (the city): Observe the public space in a new way (and map it).
-Telling stories: Form doesn’t follow function. Form follows fiction.

The road ahead:

-Dressing people: Understand what “custom-made” really means.
-Road to nowhere: Learn to become self-sufficient.
-Ready to show? Ready to exhibit?

The end. Where to go from here?

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?

I am not from this world

WEEK11-DAY6

1. Soundtrack of the day

Love story

2.Places to discover

Wonderland

3. People to meet

Lewis Carrol

4. Question of the day

5. Inspiration

“Come, we shall have some fun now!’ thought Alice...

“But I don’t want to go among mad people,” said Alice.

“Oh, you can’t help that,” said the Cat, “we’re all mad here.”

Lewis Carroll was quite a designer indeed. He designed worlds. Complete ones that made sense in their nonsense.

“Well, I never heard it before, but it sounds uncommon nonsense”, 
said the The Mock Turtle.

Bobby Fischer, the chess champion. - “All that matters on the chessboard is good moves.”A documentary on Bobby Fischer.

A designer is a person who has the duty to invent worlds.

6. Homework 

Today, you will relax and get lost in a dream-like state of mind. Explore the nonsensical, the riddles, the meaningless puzzles of life. Find a way slip “Through the Looking Glass” and reach “Alice in Wonderland.”

Thomas Lommée’s Open Structures

Archigram’s Archival Project

Norman McLaren’s video worlds

You must start building your own world. It can be a world like Escher or a world like the Collyer Brothers. Ferdinand Cheval or the Greek Meteoras. Bomarzo
or La Linea.

“No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.”Aristotle

“Follow your inner moonlight; don’t hide the madness.”
Allen Ginsberg

“There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad.”
Salvador Dali

Did you know that Dali illustrated Alice in Wonderland?
”I’m late! I’m late!
‘Hello, Goodbye’.
I’m late, I’m late, I’m late.
Oh dear! Oh dear! I shall be too late!”
said the White Rabbit.
“Well, no wonder you’re late!
Why this clock is exactly two days slow!”
replied the Mad Hatter.

The Lewis chessmen: “Few objects compete with the Lewis chessmen in terms of their popular appeal.”

Find out more on BBC’s “History of the World”

Jan Švankmajer’s version of Wonderland...

“Close your eyes or you won’t see anything” - Jan Švankmajer

7.Extras.

Alice from Pogo

Woman on a wire

WEEK11-DAY5

1. Soundtrack of the day

Rock argentino

2. Places to go

San Miguel de Tucumán, Argentina.

3.People to meet

 Tomas Saraceno’s “Galaxies Forming along Filaments, Like Droplets along
 the Strands of a Spiders Web”.

“I love the idea that people enter my installations and communicate with one another in a very different way, reacting to the space”.

Philippe Petit: “If I die, what a beautiful death!” He is the man who walked between the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York. 

Man on Wire documentary

“You must not fall. When you lose your balance, resist for a long time before
turning yourself toward the earth. Then jump. You must not force yourself to stay steady. You must move forward.”

4. Question of the day

5. Inspiration

 Gelvin Stevenson -“It’s like a moving meditation.”

String games - “Cat’s Cradle” 

International String Figure Association? The String figure

A super simple String story- Ms. Anne Glover.
Alice in Wonderland story with strings
“The essential thing is to etch movements in the sky, movements so still they leave no trace. The essential thing is simplicity. That is why the long path
to perfection is horizontal.” Philippe Petit

“Start at the North Pole and travel due south for about 6,200 miles, having marked your initial direction. Then turn to your left and go the same distance one more time. 6,200 miles is roughly the distance from the North Pole to the equator, so your journey will have taken you to the North Pole to the equator, a quarter of the way round the equator, and back to the North Pole again. Moreover, the direction at which you arrive back will be at right angles to your starting direction. It follows that on the earth’s surface there is an equilateral
triangle with all its angles equal to a right angle. On a flat surface, the angles of an equilateral triangle have to be 60 degrees, as they are all equal and add up to 180, so the surface of the earth is not flat.”

Timothy Gowers

The Silk Vortices of Akiko Ikeuchi

Music out of strings!

“Even though you tie a hundred knots the string remains one.”

Rumi

“A net is holes tied together with string.”

Allan Watts

6. Homework - Today, you will write/design your own story with string. Use whatever string you want. We generally prefer nylon, but every type is good.