Showing posts with label week7. Show all posts
Showing posts with label week7. Show all posts
Sunday, December 15, 2013
Living in a box
WEEK7- DAY7
1. SOUNDTRACK OF THE DAY
Living in a box
Woke up this morning Closed in on all sides
Nothing doing
I feel resistance
As I open my eyes
Someone's fooling
I've found a way to break
Through this cellophane line
Cause I know what's going on
In my own mind
Am I living in a box Am I living in a cardboard box
Am I living in a box
Am I living in a cardboard box
Am I living in a box
Life goes in circles
Around and around circulation
I sometimes wonder
What's moving underground
I'm escaping
I've found a way ...
I've found a way ...
2. PLACES TO KNOW
Woke up this morning Closed in on all sides
Nothing doing
I feel resistance
As I open my eyes
Someone's fooling
I've found a way to break
Through this cellophane line
Cause I know what's going on
In my own mind
Am I living in a box Am I living in a cardboard box
Am I living in a box
Am I living in a cardboard box
Am I living in a box
Life goes in circles
Around and around circulation
I sometimes wonder
What's moving underground
I'm escaping
I've found a way ...
I've found a way ...
2. PLACES TO KNOW
The Big Bag Box - An open space made of ten themed “boxes”. Ten cute, customized and compact living cubes. We use them when we work up late,
when we have guests and friends coming to visit.
“Russatore” (or “Snorer”) and has 2 soundproof panels.
“Ordinato” (or “Ordered / Tidy) it has different pockets on the inside surfaces. XL - is 50 square centimeter larger than all the other boxes.
3. PEOPLE TO DISCOVER
An early image gallery of BBB - A living unit where simplicity it is foremost a design tool. Make it simpler (and the result, it will be better).
An human habitation - the portable yurt from Central Asia. Watch 25 minute movie Mujaan.
The Bedouin live(d) in the desert. - Made from goats and camels’ hair, they are strong and durable. And they also keep you warm in the winter. And then, in the summer, their sides can be rolled-up to allow the breeze to come in.
The twosecond tent - very short video
Archigram’s mobile and modular living pods: “Speculative proposal for a sculpted and mechanised “trailer home” which can exist independently or be plugged into larger structures.” (David Greene)
“I am sorry for the length of my letter, but I had not the time to write a short one.” (Blaise Pascal)
6. HOMEWORK
If you were to think about your life, the places you go and you know. Some of them are complex and elaborate. Some others are extremely simple.
Think to the simple ones. How do they work? How come that most of the times
they are invisible to our eyes? What could you learn from these places?
This is a place I'm quite fond of - the beach. These tents with stripes are typical from this beach where I live - Figueira da Foz. Last summer I read in the local newspaper that this seasonal business is ending. Owners say it does not pay enough because they have to pay a lot of licenses. They also pay for life guards. This is mainly a family business that lasts for 2-3 months in the summer. For many years there was no other way of enjoying a stay at the beach. But now many families prefer to carry their own tents and beach umbrellas to the sand. I have seen people with that two-second Quechua tent also! I found it very cute, of course. But I think it's a shame if these stripped tents go away because 1. they are a part of the beach scene, our collective imaginary 2. if it goes away it will disappear a particular kind of community that is formed each year around the tents with adults and children from all over. After 8 or 15 days sharing that tent neighbourhood it's common to become friends. With beach umbrellas scattered in the beach most of the times there is no socialization among the beach goers. You go, you live. Oh, this got me thinking: when we carry our own beach umbrella are we designing a more simple life?
“Ordinato” (or “Ordered / Tidy) it has different pockets on the inside surfaces. XL - is 50 square centimeter larger than all the other boxes.
3. PEOPLE TO DISCOVER
How do Japanese take a bath?
An early image gallery of BBB - A living unit where simplicity it is foremost a design tool. Make it simpler (and the result, it will be better).
Josef Albers said, “Abstraction is real,probably more real than nature.”
Albers foundation site
"Today I have to think about simplicity. How to think “simple”. How to
transform this quality into a design tool to be used for all the things you do. If you start simple, you can’t be wrong. There is always time to make things more complex. Start simple, be simple. In a world where we are overwhelmed by elaborate information, to be simple is one of the few possibilities for survival (and/ or escape). In contemporary world there are a lot of “ecological,”
transform this quality into a design tool to be used for all the things you do. If you start simple, you can’t be wrong. There is always time to make things more complex. Start simple, be simple. In a world where we are overwhelmed by elaborate information, to be simple is one of the few possibilities for survival (and/ or escape). In contemporary world there are a lot of “ecological,”
“sustainable,” “green” products and solution. You can buy them, you can use them, you can believe in them. To us, it is not a matter of labels. It is a matter of a certain state of mind. As soon as something is tagged as
“ecological”, it isn’t anymore. It is like butterflies. If you like them so much to collect them, to collect you have to kill them. For us is the same.
The point is not to be sustainable or green. The point is to design intelligent things. To set up the parameters of success and to try to comply as best as we can." From the Course letter
“ecological”, it isn’t anymore. It is like butterflies. If you like them so much to collect them, to collect you have to kill them. For us is the same.
The point is not to be sustainable or green. The point is to design intelligent things. To set up the parameters of success and to try to comply as best as we can." From the Course letter
The Bedouin live(d) in the desert. - Made from goats and camels’ hair, they are strong and durable. And they also keep you warm in the winter. And then, in the summer, their sides can be rolled-up to allow the breeze to come in.
The twosecond tent - very short video
Shelters, Shacks, and Shanties: The Classic Guide to Building Wilderness Shelters written by one of the funders of the Boy Scouts of America. A how-to-construct more than 50 different shelters.
Archigram’s mobile and modular living pods: “Speculative proposal for a sculpted and mechanised “trailer home” which can exist independently or be plugged into larger structures.” (David Greene)
“I am sorry for the length of my letter, but I had not the time to write a short one.” (Blaise Pascal)
6. HOMEWORK
If you were to think about your life, the places you go and you know. Some of them are complex and elaborate. Some others are extremely simple.
Think to the simple ones. How do they work? How come that most of the times
they are invisible to our eyes? What could you learn from these places?
This is a place I'm quite fond of - the beach. These tents with stripes are typical from this beach where I live - Figueira da Foz. Last summer I read in the local newspaper that this seasonal business is ending. Owners say it does not pay enough because they have to pay a lot of licenses. They also pay for life guards. This is mainly a family business that lasts for 2-3 months in the summer. For many years there was no other way of enjoying a stay at the beach. But now many families prefer to carry their own tents and beach umbrellas to the sand. I have seen people with that two-second Quechua tent also! I found it very cute, of course. But I think it's a shame if these stripped tents go away because 1. they are a part of the beach scene, our collective imaginary 2. if it goes away it will disappear a particular kind of community that is formed each year around the tents with adults and children from all over. After 8 or 15 days sharing that tent neighbourhood it's common to become friends. With beach umbrellas scattered in the beach most of the times there is no socialization among the beach goers. You go, you live. Oh, this got me thinking: when we carry our own beach umbrella are we designing a more simple life?
Saturday, December 14, 2013
I don't have a clue! That's elementary!
WEEK7-DAY6
Sherlock TV series original soundtrack
2. PLACES TO KNOW
5. INSPIRATION
I want to share a game I bought last year. I really can't go to bookshops because I see so many interesting things that I just can't buy. But when I saw this game I could not resist.
It's from http://www.laurenceking.com/en/gifts/children-s/. They have good stuff. If you are good with your hands you can create these dice yourself and paint the elements. They are good for adults and children. Nine wooden dice have iconic representations of fairy-tale and magic tropes that, when combined, create an endless number of stories, or one never ending story. You can tell a story in the order that the dice are rolled or, as the booklet suggests, you can make it more challenging and funnier, by passing the story from one player to the next, sort of like Exquisite Corpse...
2. PLACES TO KNOW
Old Rottingdean postcards
Tudor Close House was a skilful 1920s conversion of much older farm buildings into seven houses. They were converted into a hotel, as seen in this view, but shortly afterwards the building was reconverted back to twenty-nine flats.
3. PEOPLE TO DISCOVER
3. PEOPLE TO DISCOVER
5. INSPIRATION
Michael Graves - electric kettle
Today is about playing games
Types of play
Types of play
Polly Pocket - A cute, compact and portable little world to get their imagination going.
Cluedo game.
We see the act of playing as a sort of rite. For us, playing is one of the most fascinating ways to travel, get into new worlds and make connections with the world around.
Albert Einstein - “play is the highest form of research”... It’s a way to help us develop social skills. It’s a way to get us into the act (and art) of improvisation.
It’s a way to relax.
Brian Sutton-Smith - “the opposite of play is not work, it is depression.”
Something to remember: To design magic, one needs to play.To design involves
the imaginary.
Alfred Hitchcock’s Dial M for Murder
Hitchcock about time capsules: “We seem to have a compulsion these days to bury time capsules in order to give those people living in the next century
or so some idea of what we are like. I have prepared one of my own. I have placed some rather large samples of dynamite, gunpowder, and nitroglycerin. My time capsule is set to go off in the year 3000. It will show them what we are really like.”
Frances Glessner Lee - A heiress who chose to spend her life investigating crimes to “convict the guilty, clear the innocent, and find the truth in a nutshell”.
Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death.
Cluedo game.
We see the act of playing as a sort of rite. For us, playing is one of the most fascinating ways to travel, get into new worlds and make connections with the world around.
Albert Einstein - “play is the highest form of research”... It’s a way to help us develop social skills. It’s a way to get us into the act (and art) of improvisation.
It’s a way to relax.
Brian Sutton-Smith - “the opposite of play is not work, it is depression.”
Something to remember: To design magic, one needs to play.To design involves
the imaginary.
Alfred Hitchcock’s Dial M for Murder
Hitchcock about time capsules: “We seem to have a compulsion these days to bury time capsules in order to give those people living in the next century
or so some idea of what we are like. I have prepared one of my own. I have placed some rather large samples of dynamite, gunpowder, and nitroglycerin. My time capsule is set to go off in the year 3000. It will show them what we are really like.”
Frances Glessner Lee - A heiress who chose to spend her life investigating crimes to “convict the guilty, clear the innocent, and find the truth in a nutshell”.
Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death.
6. HOMEWORK
It's from http://www.laurenceking.com/en/gifts/children-s/. They have good stuff. If you are good with your hands you can create these dice yourself and paint the elements. They are good for adults and children. Nine wooden dice have iconic representations of fairy-tale and magic tropes that, when combined, create an endless number of stories, or one never ending story. You can tell a story in the order that the dice are rolled or, as the booklet suggests, you can make it more challenging and funnier, by passing the story from one player to the next, sort of like Exquisite Corpse...
Friday, December 13, 2013
Camera obscura
WEEK7- DAY5
1. SOUNDTRACK OF THE DAY
Il cielo in una stanza - GINO PAOLI
A sky room being for the benefit of mr Kite - The beatles.
2. PLACES TO KNOW
Etna eruzione November 2013
3. PEOPLE TO DISCOVER
1. SOUNDTRACK OF THE DAY
Il cielo in una stanza - GINO PAOLI
A sky room being for the benefit of mr Kite - The beatles.
2. PLACES TO KNOW
Etna eruzione November 2013
3. PEOPLE TO DISCOVER
Mariano Dallago Camera Obscura at Abadir video
Robert Frank - a portrait documentary called Leaving home, coming home, by Gerald Fox.
A video about In honor of the 50th anniversary of the publication of Robert Frank’s seminal photo book The Americans, the National Gallery of Art organized a comprehensive exhibit of his work.4. QUESTION OF THE DAY
5. INSPIRATION
A great how-to video
A video about In honor of the 50th anniversary of the publication of Robert Frank’s seminal photo book The Americans, the National Gallery of Art organized a comprehensive exhibit of his work.4. QUESTION OF THE DAY
5. INSPIRATION
A great how-to video
More instructions
The Magic Mirror of Life - a lot of information here.
Mr. Palomar by Italo Calvino: “It is only after you have come to know the surface of things that you venture to seek what is underneath. But the surface
Mr. Palomar by Italo Calvino: “It is only after you have come to know the surface of things that you venture to seek what is underneath. But the surface
is inexhaustible”
“When people look at my pictures I want them to feel the way they do when they want to read a line of a poem twice.” This was said by Robert Frank, one of the most important figures in American photography.
“When people look at my pictures I want them to feel the way they do when they want to read a line of a poem twice.” This was said by Robert Frank, one of the most important figures in American photography.
The work of Abelardo Morell - site
A nice video of a nice project in Paris - Camera obscura Paris project
Master in Relational Design
The dark room is not a camera obscura
How to make a stop motion animation
6. Homework - transform a room into a camera obscura.
Today is Saturday. The sun was shining bright this morning and so I did it! I used garbage bags to seal the window. As it wasn't enough I also used a dark piece of cloth. I used a white piece of cloth to cover furniture. It was really fun to do this task. I made a hole in the plastic and after everything was on place the image showed up clearly on the wall in front of the window. As I live in the 4th floor I was afraid I would get only sky. But I was able to see the buildings, the streets and the cars going up and down. I also did have some fun doing some chinese shadows with my hands. Unfortunately nothing of that shows in the photographs because my digital camera just isn't good enough!
Thursday, December 12, 2013
F R A M E
WEEK7-DAY4
1. SOUNDTRACK OF THE DAY
2. PLACES TO KNOW
Budapest, Hungary
3. PEOPLE TO DISCOVER
László Bíró, the inventor of the first ballpoint pen ever made: the Bic Crystal or“Atomic pen” for the French - for everyone, everywhere
4. QUESTION OF THE DAY
5. INSPIRATION
“...some strange pressed flowers, a few videotapes, some family photos, a drawing on crumpled paper, an enormous banner of grass and reeds interwoven
with old pieces of material which once were clothes, a fine suit, a bad book…
These will be the objects…” Superstudio - Life Without Objects.
One of the things Superstudio believed in was that objects would be “reduced to the condition of neutral and disposable elements”.
In Los Angeles, The Museum of Jurassic Technology - “a spot dedicated to the Muses, a place where man’s mind could attain a mood of aloofness above
everyday affairs.” The museum contains an unusual collection of exhibits and objects with varying and uncertain degrees of authenticity.
everyday affairs.” The museum contains an unusual collection of exhibits and objects with varying and uncertain degrees of authenticity.
Here’s a nice article about it on The Economist.
This museum made an exhibition all from little people, “microminiatures” - The eye of the needle.
This museum made an exhibition all from little people, “microminiatures” - The eye of the needle.
One more cabinet we like which is based in L.A., the interactive Augsburg Display Cabinet at the Getty Museum.
Cabinet of curiosities or wunderkammers
“The Indian in the Cupboard” - A movie about magic and how things come to life in the most unexpected places.
6. Homework:
You will frame one of your ordinary objects to transform it into something special. You will find a way to “exhibit” it inside your room. First, you will have to choose this object. Then, you will need to create a display for it.
You will frame one of your ordinary objects to transform it into something special. You will find a way to “exhibit” it inside your room. First, you will have to choose this object. Then, you will need to create a display for it.
Drawing with light. Capturing imagination.
Wednesday, December 11, 2013
The time capsule
WEEK7-DAY3
1. SOUNDTRACK OF THE DAY
Lacrimosa - Mozart
About Mozart and creativity
Mozart vs Skrillex. Epic Rap Battles of History Season 2.
2. PLACES TO KNOW
An Exhibition - Time Capsule
5. INSPIRATION
Today we will make our tiny (or big, if you feel ambitious) box. Not only. Once the box has been made, you will have to find a place where to hide it.
To be opened on the 31st of December 2038. 25 years now. To open up Design 101 time capsules! This is quite a cool idea: to give us an excuse to meet in 25 years from now. Especially if we take in account that we never met.
Eight Tips on How to Organize a Time Capsule
Today I will make a time-capsule. It is a process in seven steps.
Step one: thinking about the box. It can be a ready made, it can be somethingdone on purpose. The box has to last for twenty five years.
Step two: selecting the meaningful objects that should be in the time capsule. I can choose existing things or things I made for it.
Step three: writing a message or a note, or something like.
Step four: closing it and seal it.
Step five: hide/dig/conceal.
Step six: making a map with instructions and give them to someone close to me (in case you die before the 25th anniversary).
Step seven: making an illustration where I can show the objects, the box, and the place where the special box is kept.
The box is to be opened on the 31st of December 2038. 25 years from now.
7. NADIR AFONSO
About Mozart and creativity
Mozart vs Skrillex. Epic Rap Battles of History Season 2.
2. PLACES TO KNOW
3. PEOPLE TO DISCOVER
An article from The Guardian
An Exhibition - Time Capsule
Andy Warhol made over 600 time capsules. “What you should do is get a box for a month, and drop everything in it and at the end of the month lock it up ... You should try to keep track of it, but if you can’t and you lose it, that’s fine, because it’s one less thing tothink about, another load off your mind.”
“The collection is held at the Warhol museum in the old steel town where he was born and raised, Pittsburgh. The boxes are stored in aircontrolled rooms, lined up neatly like funeral urns. Only 91 of the 611 capsules have been opened, and only 19 have been fully analysed and recorded.”
4. QUESTION OF THE DAY
5. INSPIRATION
Wikipedia tells us that:...according to time capsule historian William Jarvis, most intentional time capsules usually do not provide much useful
historical information: they are typically filled with “useless junk”, new and pristine in condition, that tells little about the people of the time.
historical information: they are typically filled with “useless junk”, new and pristine in condition, that tells little about the people of the time.
Today we will make our tiny (or big, if you feel ambitious) box. Not only. Once the box has been made, you will have to find a place where to hide it.
To be opened on the 31st of December 2038. 25 years now. To open up Design 101 time capsules! This is quite a cool idea: to give us an excuse to meet in 25 years from now. Especially if we take in account that we never met.
Teaching with time capsules
More about W?
Something to remember:
One day more, one day less.
More about W?
- the Warhol course on Coursera: an introduction to the life and work of Andy
Warhol... through exploration of five thematic framings of his life and career:
celebrity, sex, money, death, and time.
Warhol... through exploration of five thematic framings of his life and career:
celebrity, sex, money, death, and time.
- the Warhol Museum offers some nice lessons, exercises and resources for you.
Artist Jee Young Lee
6.Homework:
Today I will make a time-capsule. It is a process in seven steps.
Step one: thinking about the box. It can be a ready made, it can be somethingdone on purpose. The box has to last for twenty five years.
Step two: selecting the meaningful objects that should be in the time capsule. I can choose existing things or things I made for it.
Step three: writing a message or a note, or something like.
Step four: closing it and seal it.
Step five: hide/dig/conceal.
Step six: making a map with instructions and give them to someone close to me (in case you die before the 25th anniversary).
Step seven: making an illustration where I can show the objects, the box, and the place where the special box is kept.
The box is to be opened on the 31st of December 2038. 25 years from now.
http://www.nadirafonso.com/
NADIR AFONSO (CHAVES, 4 DE DEZEMBRO 1920 – 11 DE DEZEMBRO 2013)
Tuesday, December 10, 2013
In the white room
WEEK7- DAY2
1. SOUNDTRACK OF THE DAY
Cream - In the White Room
2. PLACES TO KNOW
Venice, Gallerie dell’Accademia
3. PEOPLE TO DISCOVER
Roman architect-engineer Vitruvius Pollio (1st century B.C.):
“... Vitruvius declares that Nature has thus arranged the measurements of
a man: four fingers make one palm. and four palms make one foot; six palms
make one cubit; four cubits make once a man’s height; four cubits make a pace,
and twenty-four palms make a man’s height...”
4. QUESTION OF THE DAY
5. INSPIRATION
Leonardo’s Vitruvian Man.
“Man is the measure of all things,”
Pythagoras
Your Body Ruler - A User’s Manual.
Design needs measures. Without them, it is very difficult to get into any project. I measure therefore I am. This is today’s motto. Something to remember: I measure therefore I am.
Room 101- George Orwell’s “Nineteen Eighty-Four.” It is a torture chamber in the Ministry of Love in which the Party attempts to subject a prisoner to his or her own worst nightmare, fear or phobia.
Three special rooms:
Le Corbusier’s Terrace Room on De Beistegui apartment in Paris
Antonello da Messina’s St. Jerome in his Study
The Chashitsu (the Japanese Tea House)
Leonardo’s painting “Lady with an Ermine” and his quite fascinating helicopter.
A series of drawings Martin Kippenberger made of the floor plans of all the places in which he worked and lived that he could remember since he was five years old. All the drawings were made on invoices of a hotel.
“If you want to become an architect, you have to learn how to draw freehand… the computer is a useful tool... you can use it when you finally understood what you want to do...”
Enzo Mari
6. HOMEWORK:
Today’s exercise is made in three steps.
Step one: you have your room, you have your body, measure your room (and the relevant things in it) using your body.You choose which part of the body (or which parts), and what is relevant to be measured. Then you have to transform your measurement into something easy to be communicated to us.
Step two: you have to draw a floor plan of your room. You can use the technique you think to be best. Only requests: the floor plan should have measures in it.
I choose my foot! One foot equals 21,5 cm!
And something to try - a nice online software (Contribution of Samantha SSVSTUDIO student)
7. Measures with our body! The pedometer!
When I was reading this letter I immediatly remember my pedometer. Last summer I bought a pedometer. First thing to do after buying it is the calibration process.
- you will need some place where you can measure out a distance of about 60 to 70 feet (18.3 to 21.3 meters).
- you will need a measuring device, a tape. Use the same procedure weather you are walking, jogging or running. It's different measures thow.
- you must select a starting point and mark it; then walk normally for ten paces and mark the end.
- then measure the length with the tape measure. Divide the result by twelve to give you the number of inches in each step.
- if you want to be precise you can drive your car along your route to determine the correct distance with your car odometer. Use the pedometer on that route and check the result.
-- If the distance is longer than that measured with your car you must reenter a stride length a few inches shorter.
-- If the distance is shorter than your car’s odometer you must add a few inches to the stride length.
I use the pedometer to measure the distance traveled during my routine. I use this information as a motivator when I am walking. I check it frequently and as I establish more or less distance for daily routine in order to achieve my monthly goals! I have a little book where I keep the distances I made. November was a bad month. I was ill and the cold came. I started doing this in the summer and the cold weather is a major problem for me...!
When I was reading this letter I immediatly remember my pedometer. Last summer I bought a pedometer. First thing to do after buying it is the calibration process.
- you will need some place where you can measure out a distance of about 60 to 70 feet (18.3 to 21.3 meters).
- you will need a measuring device, a tape. Use the same procedure weather you are walking, jogging or running. It's different measures thow.
- you must select a starting point and mark it; then walk normally for ten paces and mark the end.
- then measure the length with the tape measure. Divide the result by twelve to give you the number of inches in each step.
- if you want to be precise you can drive your car along your route to determine the correct distance with your car odometer. Use the pedometer on that route and check the result.
-- If the distance is longer than that measured with your car you must reenter a stride length a few inches shorter.
-- If the distance is shorter than your car’s odometer you must add a few inches to the stride length.
I use the pedometer to measure the distance traveled during my routine. I use this information as a motivator when I am walking. I check it frequently and as I establish more or less distance for daily routine in order to achieve my monthly goals! I have a little book where I keep the distances I made. November was a bad month. I was ill and the cold came. I started doing this in the summer and the cold weather is a major problem for me...!
Monday, December 9, 2013
Trololo
WEEK7- DAY1- VOYAGE INTO MY ROOM
1. SOUNDTRACK OF THE DAY
Mr. Trololo video - Eduard Anatolyevich Khil , sometimes anglicised as Edward Hill, is a Russian baritone singer and a recipient of the People's Artist Award of the RSFSR.
2. PLACES TO KNOW
St. Petersburg - Tsar Peter the Great founded the city as his own “window on the West”. Built on water, St-Petersburg has 342 bridges and the deepest metros in the world (more than 100 meters below ground).
Mr. Trololo video - Eduard Anatolyevich Khil , sometimes anglicised as Edward Hill, is a Russian baritone singer and a recipient of the People's Artist Award of the RSFSR.
2. PLACES TO KNOW
St. Petersburg - Tsar Peter the Great founded the city as his own “window on the West”. Built on water, St-Petersburg has 342 bridges and the deepest metros in the world (more than 100 meters below ground).
A video of the city
Bizarre Foods
Tsar Peter the Great
Sergei Eisenstein
4. QUESTION OF THE DAY
5. INSPIRATION
“When I travel through my room, I rarely follow a straight line: I go from the
table towards a picture hanging in a corner; from there, I set out obliquely towards the door; but even though, when I begin, it really is my intention to go
there, if I happen to meet my armchair en route, I don’t think twice about it, and settle down in it without further ado.”
Xavier de Maistre
Short definitions for a “room” - it is “a space where something can be done”. What would be your definition for “room”? How could you use your room and to transform it conceptually into something completely different?
Stalker - sci‑fi movie by a Andrei Tarkovsky. This movie about a magic room: if you are able to find it and to get in, all of your wishes will become true.
Stefano project
“Seventy Variations in the Composition of the Elements of Domestic Architecture ‘Tana’ or ‘Tokowaki’, from a Japanese Manual (in Tetsuro Yoshida’s “The Japanese House” - 1935)”
Tango, a nice animation from 1981 of thirty-six characters interacting and moving in loops inside a room.
3. PEOPLE TO DISCOVER
Xavier de Maistre - A journey round my room book and an article about itTsar Peter the Great
Sergei Eisenstein
4. QUESTION OF THE DAY
5. INSPIRATION
“When I travel through my room, I rarely follow a straight line: I go from the
table towards a picture hanging in a corner; from there, I set out obliquely towards the door; but even though, when I begin, it really is my intention to go
there, if I happen to meet my armchair en route, I don’t think twice about it, and settle down in it without further ado.”
Xavier de Maistre
Stalker - sci‑fi movie by a Andrei Tarkovsky. This movie about a magic room: if you are able to find it and to get in, all of your wishes will become true.
Something to remember:
In the design world, the glass has to be always half filled.
“Seventy Variations in the Composition of the Elements of Domestic Architecture ‘Tana’ or ‘Tokowaki’, from a Japanese Manual (in Tetsuro Yoshida’s “The Japanese House” - 1935)”
Tango, a nice animation from 1981 of thirty-six characters interacting and moving in loops inside a room.
6. Homework
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