Friday, February 4, 2011
Seat with a View
Seat with a view is an exploration of unusual ways of thinking about furniture. What is a chair and what more could a chair be? Here I have tried to shift the emphasis from issues of style and image to more psychological use of furniture as tools for reflection.
I wish to provoke the viewer or user to think about the nature of the intervention and the desires that motivate it. Criticizing the limits of objects and their usual functions, I want to explore how objects can appeal more to the poetic and dreamy sides of people.
A Design Perspective
¨We are lacking a discipline, perhaps an ´objectology´, or an ´ object ethology ´, which allows us to analyse and systematise objects and to formulate the rules and codes of their behaviour....a discipline which recovers and updates the interrupted discourse of material culture, in crisis since the world of objects was taken over by the world of products and the world of consumption¨ Susani, 1992, 42
How can the language of design be questioned?
How can design be used as a commentary?
How can design function as artistic speculation?
How can designers reclaim their position in the critical debate about objects using their own language as a playful weapon to reclaim it?
Wednesday, January 5, 2011
Family of chairs
One day a family of used chairs knocked at my frontdoor. They had different problems: wear and tear, missing seats and they had be separated from their furniture families and owners. I took them inside and started playing, rearranging and new images started emering. They started looking like people socializing, some turning their backs on each other and others moving closer and even embrasing.
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