installation architecture
The Pavillions for A New Architecture exhibition, held in 2005 at the Monash University and curated by Geraldine Barlow and Max Delany, is perhaps relevant to designing installations for the future. Certainly some very nice work there. Stuart Harrison, with his piece 'Shadow Cabinet', done with Graham Crist.
Wolfram Alpha
This is a new Search Engine i recently heard about. It's similar to Google, but based on mathematic and statistic search method. I think it's official release happens this Monday. (very slow at the moment). See how it works here Beside the fact that we actually don't know where the information is coming from, except from "very reliable sources", I →
More on architecture, sci-fi and the virtual.
A sort of reply to Nicholas's post on the Lucas Arts: Fracture terra-forming computer game. There's been a lot of talk about how much video games and cinema (especially science fiction) have influenced wider design culture. With advancements in our ability to represent 'reality' digitally, the games and animation industry has also influenced the development of many of the →
Haus Rucker Co are a group of Austrian architects around in the late 60's and early 70's, they are a bit archigram esque in their style and futurist predictions, (lots of plastic and bubbles, machines for living etc) but they deal almost entirely with human scale spacial perception, with project names like "environment transformers" and "mind expander" they where not →
Hair Mask
Do you find it interesting? - Bjork making a mask of her own hair
black orchid fashion
This is a site I found a picture of a purple human called Black orchid. This blog depicts each characters describing their daily activities and adventures and qualities. Each character has its own profile on the blog. Use the links at the bottom of the page to see Black orchid profile. http://swampthingblog.blogspot.com/2006_02_01_archiv...
This is also pretty interesting, had been around for a while (which leads me to the question: what isn't covered by the allmighty bldgblg?) but to shape the environment for your tactic advantage in no time is pretty nice when used in a demilitarized manner...pretty much the high-speed version of this. Similarities to the Saharan project, anyone - How would →
condom fashion-just for fun
http://www.birthcontrolwatch.org/blog/2007/10/from-passion-to-fashion-condom-couture.html
Braintweet
did we speak about this yet? I am not sure, but interesting enough. This is a kind of interface. All about the individual though, when it's used like that - scary, the thought of real-time blogging.
wearable blanket/wall skin
Ive been contemplating a blanket that had many properties, and is wearable, or be given to a child at birth, like a security blanket. it could grow. it could also be an extension of the wall, unrollable. which means it could be in the bedroom, or bathroom. it could camouflage, block sun, etc. i suppose it needs to be washable, or perhaps filterable..... it becomes →
Breakfast Dance:Centri-fugal/petal? forces and modernism
I was interested in my realisation that some dance, such as ballet etc with centrifugal/centripetal forces, are kind of MODERNIST! please disagree if im missing the point.... Recently my flatmate bought a juicer, which essentially works by forcing fruit onto a grater, which spins fast, and an upward turned conical perforated metal FILTER, which stops the apple SKINS and FILTERS through →
integrated food production
Ecocity Farm (link to main ecocity farm site) These guys just won some award on the ABC's New Inventors program. These kinds of systems are surely the direction we need to go in. It is perhaps an expanded autotrophic system? This is the summary text from the ABC site: Ecocity Farm is an improved aquaponics system of food production which combines the breeding →
Typoplastic Surgeries
Oder Ezer is a typographic artist and experimentalist from Israel whos work transformes letters into bizarre and mesmerizing shapes and designs from insects to cloned human sperm cells injected with typographic information into its DNA. Typoplastic Surgeries explores the 'deformation of the body' and the 'revelation of its typographical perspective'. Typosperma is the second experimental typo project in his 'Biotypography' series. 'As a paraphrase on the →
Plastination
Dr. Gunther von Hagens is the controversial anatomist who invented the technique for preserving biological tissue specimens called plastination. His exhibitions Body Worlds 'are dedicated to the individual interior face'. The latest Body Works Exhibit featuring preserved dead bodies having sex opened in Berlin on Thursday with critics saying a maverick German anatomist dubbed "Doctor Death" has gone too far this time.
Sublime/Ridiculous
I'm still very interested in the idea of floating islands as a paradigm for future architectures. This has arisen out of my responses to a range of future challenges such as future sea-level rise, increasing population, the possible future reliance on aquaculture for food. I suspect it also stems from the Australian cultural (and my personal) connection to the coast →
emotion deflection + adjustment mask – edam
Been sitting on this idea for a while now, and after discussions of similar train of thoughts over the last few weeks, I just had to do something. Coincidently, as I am typing this post, pia sent in couple of Philips research touching on similar grounds. Were there moments when you wished you weren't as transparent as you were; your →
sustainable habitat 2020; bodily becomings
This is useful re ways of presenting futures: A film for 2020: off the grid but i wish the people in it looked like this: http://www.lucymcrae.blogspot.com/ superb.
“the slippage of contemporary life into sci-fi”
In yet another onto-it post (from 2006) by Geoff Manaugh on his BLDGBLOG he throws up some enticing potentials about future aeroplanes printed out of plastic and the imagined potential of bio-printing. But where it gets really interesting for me, is where he starts to discuss how contemporary life is slipping into sci-fi, and "Science-fiction and social realism will become one →
Masks: something in the air
Thanks to Khadija Carroll (also part of the Society of Molecules), who sent me this link, commenting on how it reminded her of things discussed on this blog. A very interesting fashion collection that is extremely diverse, but ever example involves masking. Masks: There's Something in the Air I would like to see this as a potential wardrobe for the PALS. I think →
Diagrams
Here is an interesting 'diagram' I saw this morning in the local mag while waiting for my takeaway coffee. Its message is clear and effective and it seemed pertinent in relation to our recent diagramming exercises. By connecting a long history with a tangible life, the lump of wood became the tree that deserved more respect. I found this highly →
Bucky Fungus
The multiplicity of emergent themes and patterns in nature is endlessly fascinating. We are constantly seeing complex geometries and structures repeated across scales and across species. We've been looking at the microbialites and imagining how to turn their talents towards the architectural possibilities of our own future. In the same vein behold the Basket Fungus or as I like to →
The Cadaver, the Comatose & the Chimera
This presentation examines alternate anatomical architectures using mechanical, virtual, biotech and surgical augmentation and exploration of the body. It exposes the obsolescence, the absence and the emptiness of the body. Stelarc is a performance artist who has performed with a third hand, a virtual arm, a 6-legged walking robot and is presently surgically constructing and stem cell growing an ear on →
Fluid Architectures
This is a talk on by Susanne Jaschko in the Workshop 'Light, Space and Perception', held this march at the MediaLab Prado, in Madrid (they are having the 1st workshop of the Common Body Workgroup - Society of Molecules next weekend!!!) As a starpoint she takes Fritz Lang Metropolis movie (1926) stating that his predictions about the urban world in 2000 →