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Figure 11 Flow Authors: Studio 1 Institut fur Gestaltung, Innsbrück Universitat: Beatrix Nock, Esther Hollwarth, Tobias Niggl and Viktoria Gruber, Budget: 125€, Material: Lights, wire and tape, Photo: Kirill de Lancastre Jedenov, Innsbruck, Austria, 2012
Kirill de Lancastre Jedenov and Filipe Alves were invited in 2012 to intervene in the Pousada de Cascais. First they visited the space and the following day had a meeting with the owner. The space, designed by Gonçalo Byrne, had a rigid symmetry with a very pronounced height. In order to break the room’s rigid symmetry Jedenov and Alves considered a tridimensional installation that would reflect the dynamism of a flock of swallows in flight at the exact moment it turns. When they met the owner they were amazed to learn that the hotel would open in one week. While they were still contemplating on what to do, the owner informed them that they wouldn’t have time to create their proposal and suggested that with one single phone call he could get as many Bordalo Pinheiro swallows as he wanted. Not fond of how the idea was becoming figurative Jedenov and Alves asked for a number of Bordalo Pinheiro swallows that they considered to be impossible to obtain as they are hand made: 600. With one phone call the owner managed to order 600 Bordalo Pinheiro swallows to be delivered in three days. With this in mind the project was designed because this was the material they had as they would never be able to find another material with such short notice. They designed a flow for the 600 swallows that would pass from one wall to another, then to the ceiling and through the skylight breaking the rigid symmetry of the room. The result is not what Jedenov and Alves wanted, it is the possible result that was well accepted by the owner and hotel clients. Applied in student design studios: When this project was shown at Innsbrück Universitat, a group of students - that had one week to do a project - decided immediately to do the original three-dimensional proposal for the Pousada de Cascais. They imagined it made of light and went looking for available materials. In the university storeroom, they found 27 fluorescent lamps of different sizes. It was immediately decided that this would be the possible project with the available material (Fig. 11). Their description: “Rules for fishes: follow the fish in front of you. Maintain the speed of the fish next to you. With the rules out of the analysis, we started to do the flow.”
CONCLUSION The world is rapidly shifting. It has always shifted and humans adapt to these shifts. Rapid is the novelty. As soon as we adapt to a different state the world has already moved to another