wrocław POLAND
suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.
Marcin KITALA: Suits intended for hard atmospheric conditions or extreme sports; for future soldiers, pilots or divers.
body, design, drawing, Marcin KITALA, prosthesis, skin
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troy NEW YORK
“Architects typically produce drawings and other artifacts—words, inscriptions, models, full-scale mock-ups, and so on—that allow buildings to be realized by others, at a distance from their authors. This has not always been the case. Gothic building, for example, was a constructive practice of geometric rules and traditions where master craftsmen operated to some extent as architect and builder simultaneously. In this situation, drawings were not the primary mediator between design and construction; discussions regarding the final form of a building continued throughout the construction process. . . .”
*Fig. 1: Robin Evans, “Projection and its analogues: The Arrested Image,” 1995.
berlin GERMANY
suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.
matthias KARCH: William Shakespeare: Twelfth night, or what you will—This realized scenography project focuses on the enormous transgender and metamorphotic energy of Shakespeare’s dramatic figures. His comedy ‘What you will’ is an obsessive game about changing identity, transforming the own body and gender. The protagonists dream to be indifferent in reference of their sexual orientation, they hanker for having all the options of an ‘early form,’ which than could be transformed in any direction. Going back their personal timeline to a ‘hermaphrodite status’ is a regressive utopia for them.
design, matthias KARCH, OZA, set design, theater
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ghent BELGIUM
Object Oriented Eclecticism (OOE): Speculative Media & Materiality Workshop
“The workshop proposes non-linear methodologies based on the concept of Object-Oriented Design (OOD). OOD is a new paradigm in contemporary philosophy, physics, computer programming and critical theory and can be understood as the process of planning a system of interacting objects for the purpose of solving a specific problem. . . .”
OOE: Speculative Media & Materiality Workshop
w/ gilles RETSIN, isaie BLOCH, corneel CANNAERTS, and invited juror jose SANCHEZ.
Monday, 08/27 - Sunday, 09/02
Sint-Lucas, Ghent
BELGIUM
corneel CANNAERTS, design, gilles RETSIN, isaie BLOCH, object-oriented design, workshop
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new york NEW YORK
vivian ROSENTHAL and jesse SEPPI discuss Tronic studio and their interests in the tension between physical and virtual worlds, the body as interface, augmented reality, sci-fi, and of course Powerisers.
chicago ILLINOIS
December 11, 2010–July 20, 2011
Galleries 283–286
Modern architecture and design were long viewed as separate disciplines until practitioners in the mid-20th century began crossing boundaries and rethinking form and function. This fluid exchange of ideas has led to innovative solutions addressing issues at the heart of contemporary life—ones that impact the environment, sustainability, technology, politics, personal well-being, and health and safety. The Art Institute of Chicago has now organized a major exhibition highlighting important recent developments that have resulted from the intersection of architecture and design.
architecture, art institute of CHICAGO, design, exhibit
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new york NEW YORK
bill MOGGRIDGE, designer of the first laptop computer in 1980 and co-founder of ideo, the renowned innovation and design firm, has been named director of the smithsonian’s cooper-hewitt, national design museum in new york, effective march 2010.
