Iris van Herpen’s new 3D printed Escapism couture collection for .MGX
ARCHIGRAM
Just came across Archigram a few days ago, incredible ideas– very futuristic from the 60s– It is inspiring to me today.
CAPSULE
BLOW OUT VILLAGE
AUTO ENVIRONMENT
Walking City
Michael Rakowitz: PARASITE
Michael Rakowitz, a New york based artist created inflatable homes for the homesless that work with excess air of the city. His work is a commentary on how the homeless live off the waste of the city. These homes change the idea of space, speak of political and social systems.
“Bill S.’s paraSITE shelter. He requested as many windows as possible, because “homeless people don’t have privacy issues, but they do have security issues. We want to see potential attackers, we want to be visible to the public.” Six windows are placed at eye level for when Bill is seated and six smaller windows for when Bill is reclining.”
George L.’s paraSITE shelter. Made on a budget of $5.00 from trash bags, ZipLoc bags, and clear waterproof packing tape. George requested a system of “ribs” that would be made of semi-translucent trash bags. In between the ribs, he wanted windows to expose the “meat” between the bones.”
The windows are made of Ziploc sandwich bags and serve as pockets to display personal items and signage for the public. Privacy and publicity can be regulated by adding or removing objects.
Design process sketches for a shelter built for Artie, a 62-year-old homeless man living near Madison Square Garden. Artie often stands in line for concert tickets at the request of scalpers. For his paraSITE, Artie requested a domed sitting space for himself and his girlfriend, Myra, connected to a lower, intimate sleeping area for two, “the lovin’ room.”
+ RAKOWITZ
Lucy Orta’s “home”
Lucy Orta’s work considers the home as something that is dynamic and humans as nomadic. These objects become Architecture , fashion, and products all in one, merging the boundaries between them. You can simply pick up your home and while wearing it as a jacket, settle somewhere else.
Here is an interesting paper called “Dress for Stress Wearable technology and the social body” by Susan Elizabeth Ryan
This paper considers the work of artists, designers, and activists who, since the 1990s, have worked with body covering as survival mechanism and social tool. Individually or within collectives, they call their work art, design, or activism; or all three. The result is a “body of records” of technological, biological, and performable wearables that have not received the attention they deserve, both as art and design, and as vehicles for ideas about threats to species survival and collective experience.
For example, in the early 1990s artists created wearable artworks in the form of survival attire embedded in localized performative events concerned with social connection under adverse circumstances. Lucy Orta is prominent among such practitioners, who formulate clothing the body as critical, social, and ethical practice within an ambient “culture of fear.” (Fig. 1).
Fig. 1) Lucy Orta, Nexus Architecture x 50: Intervention Köln 2001.
I call such work “critical garment discourse” (abbreviated as CGD), a term I propose to mean work in the form of fashion or clothing that concerns not just the body, but notions of dress–and dress, not just as historically viewed or normatively considered, but as experienced, situated and located, and empowered as a medium capable of significant commentary.
MTV Organic by Umeric.
Pecha Kucha Montreal #16: An absolutely wonderful event
Enrico Dini’s 3-D Printers Sculpture
Japan Media Arts Festival
Lawrence Malstaf‘s Nemo Observatorium
Synthetic Aesthetics: Art, Design and Synthetic Biology
Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg is a designer, artist and researcher. Her work exhibited at the final show, The Synthetic Kingdom, explored how design could contribute to a field that most of us find a bit intimidating and distant from our daily preoccupations: synthetic biology.
Among Daisy’s latest activities are a residency she recently completed at SymbioticA, a collaboration with James King and Cambridge University’s iGEM 2009 grand-prizewinning team and then there’s Synthetic Aesthetics. This project investigates shared territory between design and synthetic biology, invites exchange of existing skills and approaches, and makes possible the development of new forms of craft and collaboration.
Synthetic biology is a bit of a daunting area of research. It seems to be highly technical and almost too abstract. How much background in Synthetic Biology would the designers and artists who apply for the residency need?
Synthetic biology is the application of engineering principles to biology – living matter has become a new material for engineering, a new technology for design and construction. The promise is that we can simplify the way we engineer life, making it predictable and useful (though biology’s complexity still challenges us, for now). The discussions today are creating a framework that could influence biology and nature for generations to come.
The deeper I get, the more fascinating and complex it becomes and the faster the field is evolving. For the last two years I have been engaging with the construction of this potential future and the ethical implications it presents. My RCA projects, The Synthetic Kingdom – a proposal for a new branch of the Tree of Life – and Growth Assembly, with Sascha Pohflepp, investigate this (both currently on show in the Wellcome Trust’s windows).
Dunne and Raby, WHAT IF…, window display, 2010.
The principles behind synthetic biology are straightforward: standardization, abstraction and modularity. Synthetic Aesthetics is not looking for designers or artists necessarily expert in genetics, rather, how might design and art work in dialogue with the evolving science?We’re interested in the overlaps between synthetic biology and design, the ways that we can explore and interrogate science, opening up new thought areas and processes. We’re asking: how would you design nature?
Synthetic biology is multi-disciplinary, from computer scientists to mechanical engineers. As design advisor with James King to the 2009 Cambridge UniversityiGEM competition team (International Genetically Engineered Machines), we joined undergraduates in Maths, Physics, Engineering and other subjects in a two-week synbio crash course last July.
Interesting Concepts for Headphones + Speakers
DESIGN BOOM had a competition with Altec Lansing, calling designers for concepts in speakers or headsets. The results were very interesting from all around the world.
name of design : altec lansing mini
design by : kimming yap + yulia saksen from singapore
name of design : exflowde
design by : sunghyun kyung from korea
name of design : hangin/bowlin
design by : janne salovaara from finland
name of design : torus
design by : james barber from uk
name of design : fruity speaker
design by : yue li from france
name of design : moss speaker
design by : brandon shigeta from usa
name of design : cure
design by : chung-lin lin from taiwan
| — name of design : tune wave design by : Yang ShunFa + Tusng-yu Liu from taiwan |
name of design : peter podbelly
design by : kinga pelsöczi from germany
name of design : urban music tree
design by : tamara orjola from latvia
name of design : sport
design by : bao-nghi droste from germany
name of design : Transparent fragility
design by : ilshat garipov from russia
CD designed by Jaroslav Juřica & Zuzana Lehutová
Image/// Courtesy of Huberto Kororo
Recorded at Pappelallee 5 in Berlin, in 2006, mixed by Ivan Palacky in Brno a year later and finally, mastered by Toshimaru Nakamura in Tokyo, in October 2007, the cd (designed by Jaroslav Juřica and Zuzana Lehutová) consists of two editions, where „kempt“ represents a smoother kind of musical expressiveness, while „unkempt“ tends to be more experimental..
After opening (by tearing off the seal), the outer minimalistic graphic of the snow-white package is irretrievably disturbed by a single dark stain, which turns to the colour of the inner content.. While the graphic form of the edition is always constant, the colours vary. Depending on the technique of opening (like using a drill in order to create a peculiar mark) some patterns arise, which give each piece a certain uniqueness.
+ UCEROZ
Infractor
The multitouch-table is by many ways better than applications based entirely on a screen and controlled by mouse interactions. The interaction can be designed more contextually and intuitive, the information can be presented more approachable.
As well it is possible to work together at the same application with more than just a single person.
There are many possibilities within a news portal in working with, processing and making tangible great amounts of information.
The application has access to the API of the New York Times that provides all information from 1985 to the present. The project has been carried out entirely in processing. The reacTIVision-software was used for the tracking of the objects.
The interactive table used for the project was designed for the mæve-installation by students and personnel of the Potsdam University of Applied Sciences.
leave a comment