“For a seed to achieve its greatest expression, it must come completely undone. The shell cracks, its insides come out and everything changes. To someone who doesn’t understand growth, it would look like complete destruction.”
Cynthia Occelli
Cynthia Occelli
VIMOKSHA
Where seeking wisdom and becomingwiseis a personal and aspirational craft, especially in this period of intense growth & destruction.
A reliable and systemic capacity to overcome self deception and enhance connectedness to oneself, to other people and to the world.
-John Vervaeke-
Affirmative design is problem solving, with design framed as a process that provides answers in the service of industry for how the world is. Critical design, on the other side of the page, is characterized as problem finding, with design framed as a medium that asks questions in the service of society for how the world could be.
Discursive Design is closely related, if not synonymous with Critical Design. The term implies that the function of the object - what it does - is secondary to how it makes us think about the context in which it exists. The object is the site of discourse. These kinds of objects tend to be prototypes, resisting commodification and mass production. They often shock the viewer into a new awareness of the social context from which they emerge. http://www.cd-cf.org/articles/beyond-design-thinking/
“We need something that will systemically create psycho-technologies that will transform consciousness, cognition, character and culture in a way that religions have if we are going to address the meaning crisis”
-John Vervaeke-
A space that homes the mystical experience
The collection deems to sow a small yet hearty ‘united nations’ in the palm of your living rooms. Where a global outreach initiative is a discussion over a cup of tea. Where disagreements are rewarded with shot of tequila and both of us are in the journey of seeking the truth together. Where being wrong is as beautiful as being right. Learning is the eternal goal.
Where perpetually breaking the regurgitated boundaries of the furniture design industry to include an open source story of craft.
This poses to add variety through customization, and to support lesser known but original and expressive craft makers.
For a holistic life to exist there must exist vehicles that initiate thoughts to transform into lived and tested inner wisdom. In the little nuances of the winding road of life, we find ourselves touched by different, characters, traditions and cultures. This collection allows for that nuance to culminate and personal innovation to occur, as being at home means belonging to the entire truth of who you are.
Using discursive design to innovate the perception of Furniture Design.
Self-actualization is at the tip of Maslow's hierarchy of needs.
An open source opportunity for craft cultures outside the traditional design world to weave and morph their sensibilities and way of life through yet-to-resolve/speculative forms.
To facilitate unique and soulful spatial tools/products that allow for its user to speculate life transcendentally with one another and themselves. Contextualizes the space as a school of life.
