Thursday, November 29, 2012

Tempo Tempi

 

Movement in open space.

Is it true because of our own movement has been changed trough the movement in objects like a faster car, a faster train or faster shoes make us see the world around us differently? When I walk I think about my grocery list or the things I must do that day. I stare at the ground moving under me and only notice some change in structures or colours. Really noticing the world around me doesn’t catch my interest. I am thinking and the images of what I must do that day come in my sight.
Because I have much to do I am not focussed to the details around me. Do I forget to look around me just to take a second of rest in my mind.
I believe that everywhere I go I get impulses all the time. Advertising signs, traffic signs, moving cars, people to bump in, pavements to trip over, stopping lights and everywhere noise. My sight gets blur because there is much to notice and much to absorb for my mind.
The way we move or to be moved on our way from A to B is made by some one. Do they pay any attention to how I look at my surroundings? Is the building by Frank Gehry on my right a design he has made to catch my attention? Because in just a second I would pass on and have never seen it. I think that architects and landscape designers play a big role in designing my surroundings. I wonder if they are busy bringing in more incitement to my sight of wanting to keep it soft and quiet.
A place where we can only see colour and familiar shapes we know from our childhood, the rest is fantasy and made up in our own mind. Many may see the world in this way.











Tuesday, November 27, 2012

Cyprien Gaillard






Inspiration


Werner Feiersinger Ohne Titel (Rückspiegel), 2003

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Urban Research and Architecture:  Beyond Henri Lefebvre
The interdisciplinary conference Urban Research and Architecture: Beyond Henri Lefebvre brings together recent applications of Lefebvre's theory in order to develop new concepts for the analysis of contemporary processes of urbanization and to suggest new design tools for architecture and urbanism.
Rediscovered in the 1990’s, Lefebvre’s theory opened up new ways of understanding of processes of urbanization, their conditions and consequences at any scale of social reality: from the practices of everyday life, through the urban scale, to the global flows of people, capital, information and ideas. At the same time, this theory has the potential to relate urban research and design practices because of its programmatic questioning of the links between urban analysis, the critique of urbanism, and the vision of a new type of social space in the contemporary city.


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Jakob Kolding
(1971, DK, woont en werkt in Berlijn) onderzoekt vanuit verschillende invalshoeken het gegeven van stadsplanning, gefascineerd door de spanning tussen beoogd en feitelijk gebruik van de openbare ruimte. Opgegroeid in Albertslund, een buitenwijk van Kopenhagen met een uiterst rigide stedelijke planning onderzoekt Kolding de relatie tussen sociaal gedrag en architecturale ruimte. Naast de collages en sculpturen die Kolding maakt produceert hij voor vrijwel iedere tentoonstelling een poster die in de tentoonstelling op stapels ligt en daarnaast over de stad verspreid worden.


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Ken Lum
(1956, CA, Vancouver) zijn werk betreft de dialectiek van private en publieke constructies over identiteit, ruimte en politiek. Zijn werk geeft een genuanceerde visie op het hedendaagse commerciële landschap. In billboardseries onderzoekt hij de creatieve mogelijkheden van reclame maken. Een van zijn bekendste billboardprojecten is ’There’s No Place Like Home’ en een befaamd werk in Nederland is het affiche op de zijkant van het Witte de With gebouw in Rotterdam met de tekst ‘Melly Shum Hates her Job.’


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The 3 A's of Awesome

Experiences in our daily lives