Thomas But it’s not that what we find in a lot of the contemporary design? It’s just structure, you don’t even have to project something on top of it. Before you needed to design something nice, curly, put some gold… whatever, it’s already too much. If you organize your information in such a brilliant way, you don’t even have to design anymore, you’re there.
Open Set 2012 / workshop 1
16.08.2012 19:30 (Contribution) Stratos I thought I would try to read the stages as if they were data, and then look at them from a distance and try to see what I can get out of it. So I wrote down every stage in a name hoping to encapsulate the meaning of the stage, and trying to find similarities. And what I saw, for example, they created a city that responds to your needs, over there. Actually what it does is minimizing the disruption, from over there, or a given game that minimizes the distance between two strangers, when we are talking about special relations between strangers and public spaces. Or a part of system that also reduces the disruption. Or an urban filter that changes the social dynamics in space and time, like the guys did over there, with the dots moving in time. So taking this as a starting point, I thought to present it in a form of questions and everybody would jump in, and comment, or answer, or… add their own thoughts. And what I wanted to ask, was that “is every project a process?”. Because we see a linear form. Is a human a process also? Are some projects interconnected? When projects connect, do they overlap? With more connections we will have more overlapping. If
you completely connect with everything that can become one with everything, can this be Utopia then? So this is also continued with… Are we disconnected with our environment when we developed the consciousness? And now we are disconnected because we see ourselves outside of it, is it something that is enclosing us. Can we connect with the environment without loosing our consciousness? Could we do that by increasing our awareness of everything? Do we have the capacity for so much awareness? I can know what you know and i can feel what you feel. And… this would be my last statement as a conclusion. I was also thinking of a map that would reflect the feelings of the people, although I found out that it is somehow already made. Thomas Wow, that’s deep… Stratos It’s some kind of experiment where everybody can come and add… Thomas Why don’t you put this online, to be just a facebook page where you just put a question and people react. Or a Twitter stream. Another thing that I like is your initial announcement of the thing of the top, all the threads… because I was thinking while you were showing that those are the results. But you can go opposite, I would have started with that as a project. And say like, design a bottom system that reduces the disruption. You know what I mean? You are using that as conclusions, but you can go the other way and say let’s try to design that system from scratch. So it’s like it goes back and forward. And I’m sure that when you’ll do that you’ll have something totally different than what the thread is that led to this question, or led to this conclusion. Allright…great…
16.08.2012 20:15 (Wrap-up) Thomas It is a really nice fading of what are we doing. We are consuming together, sharing together, creating together, and we are all sitting around the same table conversing and sharing a moment. In the history of men, even in religion, it is a very special moment when you sit down and share something. 1.68