goal of studio; produce something that functions as a house, as a car, as clothing. it should function as all three of these things, these things all at the same time.
call it an instrument, maybe an agent; now that this instrument is a vehicle, now that it's moving, it can gather things, it can pick up things as it goes. The vehicle reflects its surrounding, the vehicle diappears as it goes through one surrounding after another. it can be more physical; the vehicle can be absorbing something as it travels, it takes a layer of something as it goes, it takes on something like clothing as it goes.
what we're designing shouldn't be fantasy. it might be science-fiction. we should be designing with 5 - 10 - 15 years in mind. palpable, realizable in our own lifetime.
addenda:
..time is fast, space is slow. space is an attempt to place time and understand time; space is a need to have something to see and solid ground to stand on; space is a desire to follow the course of events and to believe in cause and effect. the electronic age obliterates space and overlap places...The electronic age establishes the primacy of time..In a fast time, public space - in the form of an actual place with boundaries - is a slowing-down process, an attempt to stop time and go back in history and revert to an earlier age. The plaza, bounded by buildings and owned by a corporation, is a nostalgia for 19th century nationalism...
- public space in private time 1991
...furniture is midway between clothing and architecture. the way the skin covers the bones, clothing contains the body; a chair then contains the body-contained-by-clothing - a room, then contains the body-contained-by-clothing-contained-by-chair...furniture is one move out of privacy, one small step towards going public. you can after all, hold something in your hands; but as long as you do, your hands are tied, your hands aren't free to touch and grab hold of anything else. so you put the thing away, in ab ox, in a drawer. once you walk away from the chest of drawers, your possession is out of your hands, out of sight and up for grabs. the closed door, the pulled in drawer, provokes other people's desire...
- homebodies 1985
call it an instrument, maybe an agent; now that this instrument is a vehicle, now that it's moving, it can gather things, it can pick up things as it goes. The vehicle reflects its surrounding, the vehicle diappears as it goes through one surrounding after another. it can be more physical; the vehicle can be absorbing something as it travels, it takes a layer of something as it goes, it takes on something like clothing as it goes.
what we're designing shouldn't be fantasy. it might be science-fiction. we should be designing with 5 - 10 - 15 years in mind. palpable, realizable in our own lifetime.
addenda:
..time is fast, space is slow. space is an attempt to place time and understand time; space is a need to have something to see and solid ground to stand on; space is a desire to follow the course of events and to believe in cause and effect. the electronic age obliterates space and overlap places...The electronic age establishes the primacy of time..In a fast time, public space - in the form of an actual place with boundaries - is a slowing-down process, an attempt to stop time and go back in history and revert to an earlier age. The plaza, bounded by buildings and owned by a corporation, is a nostalgia for 19th century nationalism...
- public space in private time 1991
...furniture is midway between clothing and architecture. the way the skin covers the bones, clothing contains the body; a chair then contains the body-contained-by-clothing - a room, then contains the body-contained-by-clothing-contained-by-chair...furniture is one move out of privacy, one small step towards going public. you can after all, hold something in your hands; but as long as you do, your hands are tied, your hands aren't free to touch and grab hold of anything else. so you put the thing away, in ab ox, in a drawer. once you walk away from the chest of drawers, your possession is out of your hands, out of sight and up for grabs. the closed door, the pulled in drawer, provokes other people's desire...
- homebodies 1985
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