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DS

Melbourne Artist
Dylan Martorell

PW

Janet Laurence DS

Amsterdam
FEDOR
Creates string gardens.

PW

material study

- MG

I'm currently working on project for Mt Scopus, Burwood - Primary School; as part of my R&D have been reading about the relationship between design and education - came across this provocateur:

HUMAN NEEDS RELEVANT TO DESIGN

In addition to satisfying their physiological needs, such as light, air, food, sleep, and sexuality, people have additional basic needs that are of interest with regard to interior design. One of the most fundamental of these is related to experiencing one’s own existence, the experience of “I am”. Through the sense of touch, of contact, people learn how to distinguish between their bodies and the outside world and, in doing so, experience themselves. This experience is also supported by the boundaries, objects, and materials of architectural space. Another human need is that of orientation: in one’s surroundings as well as in planning and shaping one’s own life. Architectural design that is geared to people can thus communicate meaning and build values. The need for orientation also includes the need for control, which means being able to cope with situations and achieve goals. The desire for control is related to the desire for room, for leeway, to carry out one’s actions. The designed environment can create an important framework that helps people cope with their situation. Understanding something is a “first, important step along the path to control” (Wolfman Kurz).

Colour Communication in Architectural Space, Meerwein, Rodeck, Mahnke.

- MG

'organic + growth'

- MG

Falling Garden
San Staë church on the Canale Grande
50th Biennial of Venice, 2003
Installation by: Gerda Steiner & Jorg Lenzlinger

PW

Phoebe, I love this image! - MG

Creatures kissing in the rain
Shapeless in the dark again
In the hanging garden
Please don't speak
In the hanging garden
No one sleeps
In the hanging garden
In the hanging garden

Catching haloes on the moon
Gives my hands the shapes of angels
In the heat of the night
The animals scream
In the heat of the night
Walking into a dream . . .

Fall fall fall fall
Into the walls
Jump jump out of time
Fall fall fall fall
Out of the sky
Cover my face as the animals cry
In the hanging garden
In the hanging garden

Creatures kissing in the rain
Shapeless in the dark again
In a hanging garden
Change the past
In a hanging garden
Wearing furs
And masks

Fall fall fall fall
Into the walls
Jump jump out of time
Fall fall fall fall
Out of the sky
Cover my face as the animals die
In the hanging garden
As the animals die
Cover my face as the animals die

In the hanging garden

The Cure
PW

mc

just a thought - triggered by this image - if we go forward with 'organic matter in a clear plastic receptacle' for our Pushka proposal then we should produce a few prototypes - not sure about James but I know the rest of you are apartment dwellers, for the record: I have a backyard should we need to do any test tube plantings! - MG

Everyday. Object. Context.
con·text

(kŏn'těkst') n. The part of a text or statement that surrounds a particular word or passage and determines its meaning. The circumstances in which an event occurs; a setting. [Middle English, composition, from Latin contextus, from past participle of contexere, to join together : com-, com- + texere, to weave; see teks- in Indo-European roots.]

PW

Demarcate
Main Entry: de·mar·cate
Pronunciation: di-'mär-"kAt, 'dE-"
Function: transitive verb
Inflected Forms: -cat·ed;-cat·ing
1 : to mark or determine the limits of
2 : to set apart clearly or distinctly as if by definite limits or boundaries —de·mar·ca·tion alsode·mar·ka·tion /"dE-"mär-'kA-sh&n/ noun

PW

Little publications ...... as ways of presenting our design proposals!
We could start to create a little library of zines that we have to sell, use for interviews, artefactual documents produced from each project but also communicate the initial proposal phase.

Zine.
A small circulation publication of original or appropriated texts and images. More broadly, the term encompasses any self published work of minority interest usually reproduced via photocopier on a variety of colored paper stock.

1965, short for fanzine (1949), from fan + suffix abstracted from magazine.

PW

What is frame?

JC