ILLOGICALLY COEXISTING
Posted by Andrea Burgueño on November 1, 2014
“A big definition of who you are as a designer is the way that you look at the world”[1]
“It is a new kind of urban layer moving very slowly across the city”[2]
“it feels almost inevitable, it feels almost un-designed”[3]
“Will create things with new awareness and also with new sensibility to real emerging needs”[4]
“And you can see, just a dramatic transformation”[5]
“Imagines an alternative world where specular events are designed“ [6] – 1.
“As designers I think we’re so far removed from the actual object”[7]
“Invoked the creative, risk taking potential of the design process in imagination futures”[8]
“People will imagine how that will impact on the way they live their lives”[9]
“May in fact be artificial, an anthropogenic ecosystem”[10]
“I want designers to be the culture generators all over the world”[11]
“Will it take it legal regulation, social change, or design to achieve that?”[12] – 2.
Past versus present or present versus future, tangible world versus intangible world, dream space versus real space, they are all tensions that brought me to write this surreal text were all these tensions can coexist, confront and provoke each other and illogically they need each other to exist.
The writing technique used is based on the surrealist practice named “cadaver exquisite” representing the Surrealism which is one of the main characters in this “idealistic world”.
These text are made by the abstraction of phrases of the documental “Objectified” (2009, Gary Hustwit), and the texts of the exhibition “How Things Don’t Work: The Dreamspace of Victor Papanek” (2014, Parsons The New School of Design). The combination of these points of view took me to a self-introspective and also challenged me to question how these different perspectives can coexist?
“One of our roles as designers might be to handicap the technology”[13]
“Technology exacerbated existing global inequities, leading to a volatile, dangerous world”[14]
“Because of the connected world”[15]
“ The individual los within systems of control”[16]
“You project yourself into this other space”[17]
“This area is framed by a large “dream space” collage”[18]
“But I see designers as designing not any more objects,”[19]
“Therefore, media that focus on crafting knowledge”[20] – 3.
“What we really need to do to design, is look at the extremes,”[21]
“Designed for under-served populations that he felt truly needed the work of designers”[22]
“So we’re not just giving form to the thing that has been created.”[23]
“Sketching out and alternative vision of a world”[24]
“That are called rapid prototyping,”[25]
“Might speculation and dreaming be our only ways forward?”[26]
“Looking at these different tools to understand how we can design a better”[27]
“Still naïve but more reasonable and responsible”[28]
“That isn’t something I was conscious of when I started working as a designer”[29] – 4.
“Why do we feel like we need to keep revisiting the archetype over and over again?”[30]
“Today industrial design has put mass murder on a mass production basis”[31]
“Because the big issue with design is, are the things we are doing really making an affect and making change?”[32]
“They are using provocation, speculation, and social “dreaming”[33]
“So design is moving from this culture of the tangible and the material, to an increasingly intangible and immaterial culture,”[34]
“Substantive design change would only come with transformations in our global…”[35] – 5.
References:
Exhibition “How Things Don’t Work: The Dream space of Victor Papanek”, The Sheila C. Johnson Design Center at Parsons The New School of Design 2014.
Documental “Objectified”, Gary Hustwit, 2009.
Press Realease, LEGACY OF CONTROVERSIAL DESIGNER CHALLENGED IN NEW PARSONS EXHIBITION, The New School, Marketing and communication, http://www.newschool.edu/pressroom/pressreleases/2014/HowThingsDontWork.htm, Oct 28 2014
Photo:
* Gray scale collage overlapping
[1] Jonathan Ive,”Objectified”, Gary Hustwit, 2009
[2] Alexandrea Fruhstorfer, 2014, “How Things Don’t Work: The Dream space of Victor Papanek”, Parsons The New School of Design 2014.
[3] Jonathan Ive,”Objectified”, Gary Hustwit, 2009
[4] “How Things Don’t Work: The Dream space of Victor Papanek”, Parsons The New School of Design 2014.
[5] Andrew Blauvelt,”Objectified”, Gary Hustwit, 2009
[6] Yosuke Ushigome, Commoditized Warfare 2013, “How Things Don’t Work: The Dream space of Victor Papanek”, Parsons The New School of Design 2014.
[7] Jonathan Ive,”Objectified”, Gary Hustwit, 2009
[8] Dice, Victor J. Papanek, c. 1969, “How Things Don’t Work: The Dream space of Victor Papanek”, Parsons The New School of Design 2014.
[9]Anthony Dune,”Objectified”, Gary Hustwit, 2009
[10] Sascha Pohflep,Zeero Park, “How Things Don’t Work: The Dream space of Victor Papanek”, Parsons The New School of Design 2014.
[11] Paola Antonelli, “Objectified”, Gary Hustwit, 2009
[12] Kelly L. Anderson, Leah Cabrera, Rachelle Tai, Body Comodity, , “How Things Don’t Work: The Dream space of Victor Papanek”, Parsons The New School of Design 2014.
[13] Anthony Dune,”Objectified”, Gary Hustwit, 2009
[14] Gulraiz Khan, Dongin Ester-Shin, Christopher Edwars Tylor, Universal Gesture Control Training Program, “How Things Don’t Work: The Dream space of Victor Papanek”, Parsons The New School of Design 2014.
[15] ”Objectified”, Gary Hustwit, 2009
[16] “How Things Don’t Work: The Dream space of Victor Papanek”, Parsons The New School of Design 2014.
[17] Fiona Raby,”Objectified”, Gary Hustwit, 2009
[18] “How Things Don’t Work: The Dream space of Victor Papanek”, Parsons The New School of Design 2014.
[19] Paola Antonelli, “Objectified”, Gary Hustwit, 2009
[20]Ebru Kurbak, Irene Posch, Knitted Radio, 2014 “How Things Don’t Work: The Dream space of Victor Papanek”, Parsons The New School of Design 2014.
[21]Dan Formosa, “Objectified”, Gary Hustwit, 2009
[22] “How Things Don’t Work: The Dream space of Victor Papanek”, Parsons The New School of Design 2014.
[23] Tim Brown, “Objectified”, Gary Hustwit, 2009
[24] “How Things Don’t Work: The Dream space of Victor Papanek”, Parsons The New School of Design 2014.
[25]Jonathan Cedar, “Objectified”, Gary Hustwit, 2009
[26] “How Things Don’t Work: The Dream space of Victor Papanek”, Parsons The New School of Design 2014.
[27]Agnete Enga, “Objectified”, Gary Hustwit, 2009
[28]US Industrial Design Magazine 1977,“How Things Don’t Work: The Dream space of Victor Papanek”, Parsons The New School of Design 2014.
[29] Tim Brown, “Objectified”, Gary Hustwit, 2009
[30] Karim Rashid, “Objectified”, Gary Hustwit, 2009
[31] Victor J Papanek, ,“How Things Don’t Work: The Dream space of Victor Papanek”, Parsons The New School of Design 2014.
[32] Karim Rashid, “Objectified”, Gary Hustwit, 2009
[33] “How Things Don’t Work: The Dream space of Victor Papanek”, Parsons The New School of Design 2014.
[34] Alice Rawsthorn, “Objectified”, Gary Hustwit, 2009
[35] “How Things Don’t Work: The Dream space of Victor Papanek”, Parsons The New School of Design 2014.