A critical design tool. I am trying to understand how I can approach this. And this is how I would like to highlight and question certain things about hoarding.
Sunday, 8 March 2009
Noam Toran
"Accessories for Lonely Men is a collection of eight fictional products designed to alleviate loneliness after the departure or loss of a woman. The objects propose that most forms of human intimacy are crude enough in their physicality that they can be replicated with electronic objects, and are meant to question what we think we miss in a relationship; the individual or the generic traces they leave behind".
A critical design tool. I am trying to understand how I can approach this. And this is how I would like to highlight and question certain things about hoarding.
A critical design tool. I am trying to understand how I can approach this. And this is how I would like to highlight and question certain things about hoarding.
Tom Price
Meltdown series. Each chair is ordered with striped clothes, furry clothes and grey clothes. Is it for aesthetic purposes as part of his meltdown series?
Luis Eslava
My mess 2006
"Celebrating mess as an acceptable part of human behavior. I am a lazy
person and so the house where I live is a messl piles of clothes, cds, and books...
these piles of objects becomes the landscape of my life. The project encourages people tp
be proud of their mess. Helping them discover beauty in their chaos. One of these objects
is a clothes hanger that work as a space divider, light diffuser and curtain.
The user will customize it with their clothers and it will grow with everyday use".
"Celebrating mess as an acceptable part of human behavior. I am a lazy
person and so the house where I live is a messl piles of clothes, cds, and books...
these piles of objects becomes the landscape of my life. The project encourages people tp
be proud of their mess. Helping them discover beauty in their chaos. One of these objects
is a clothes hanger that work as a space divider, light diffuser and curtain.
The user will customize it with their clothers and it will grow with everyday use".
Saturday, 7 March 2009
Mark Owens
A series of objects which examine obsessive compulsive behaviour.
"Owens develops critical projects within the design discipline which address issues of identity and ethics. His work is research based and spans subject matter as diverse as the convergence of real and virtual spaces, the development of fantasy experiences, and the manipulation of emotion through interaction with objects".
The hoarding chair
"Owens develops critical projects within the design discipline which address issues of identity and ethics. His work is research based and spans subject matter as diverse as the convergence of real and virtual spaces, the development of fantasy experiences, and the manipulation of emotion through interaction with objects".
The hoarding chair
Friday, 6 March 2009
In conversation with Henny
1. Facilitate the reason and cause of hoarding to prevent it. Such as introducing an object that can fulfill the needs of the person that cause the hoarding. I need to look at the underlying issues that start hoarding.
Homeless people have dogs, one reason why is to have something to look after. Henny talked about a robot dog that was given to old people to look after it showed that they enjoyed having the dog. Something that could help fill the issue.
What about swapping opposite roles to see if it takes affect. Such as the programme supersize versus superskinny. Design a space for someone to use.
2. When an event happens it may stop the hoarding. "My housemate got a girlfriend and stopped hoarding". Look at why a hoarder hoards.
Do I want to have an aesthetic approach or a therapeutic approach? What kind of approach shall i take? Usually my work makes a critical response to the subject matter, it is somewhat difficult in this case as it is not easy to have my own opinion about compulsive hoarding. I am not the sufferer, I would need to create empathy. Be sensitive to other people.
3. The chair that prompts accumulation encourages hoarding. The more items compressed the more likely you are to hoard more. Make and finish this idea. It just encourages the illness.
4. Do i design for a specific hoarder? As various hoarders have different reasons for hoarding.
5. Addictions are used to escape from problems people don't want to confront.
6. If you go into the subject you have to be prepared to answer it.
7. Apply "the potential of a candle idea" to the project and the process.
8. Nadine Jarvis work suggests that there are solutions.
9. Create space for the hoarders to deal with her loss. Create objects for her to create an escape. Design a really nice object that she can turn to such as a monument or piece of jewelery.
Homeless people have dogs, one reason why is to have something to look after. Henny talked about a robot dog that was given to old people to look after it showed that they enjoyed having the dog. Something that could help fill the issue.
What about swapping opposite roles to see if it takes affect. Such as the programme supersize versus superskinny. Design a space for someone to use.
2. When an event happens it may stop the hoarding. "My housemate got a girlfriend and stopped hoarding". Look at why a hoarder hoards.
Do I want to have an aesthetic approach or a therapeutic approach? What kind of approach shall i take? Usually my work makes a critical response to the subject matter, it is somewhat difficult in this case as it is not easy to have my own opinion about compulsive hoarding. I am not the sufferer, I would need to create empathy. Be sensitive to other people.
3. The chair that prompts accumulation encourages hoarding. The more items compressed the more likely you are to hoard more. Make and finish this idea. It just encourages the illness.
4. Do i design for a specific hoarder? As various hoarders have different reasons for hoarding.
5. Addictions are used to escape from problems people don't want to confront.
6. If you go into the subject you have to be prepared to answer it.
7. Apply "the potential of a candle idea" to the project and the process.
8. Nadine Jarvis work suggests that there are solutions.
9. Create space for the hoarders to deal with her loss. Create objects for her to create an escape. Design a really nice object that she can turn to such as a monument or piece of jewelery.
Thursday, 5 March 2009
CAKE!
Guessing the weight of the cake!
Ray wins the cake with the nearest guess of 2.2kg
Ray generously shares his win!
Gestalt therapy
"Gestalt therapy is an existential and experiential psychotherapy that focuses on the individual's experience in the present moment, the therapist-client relationship, the environmental and social contexts in which these things take place, and the self-regulating adjustments people make as a result of the overall situation. It emphasizes personal responsibility".
This encourages change for a moment in time. Enforcing change on the person for a moment. Like saying "i" instead of "it". Or changing your movement to an exagerration. Could i make an installation where someone has to change their behaviour for a moment.
I am considering the key words of each kind of therapy. Gestalt therapy:
-Take responsibility
-Facilitating the process and then changing it
-Prompting you to imagine and deal with that person straight away.
-Discover your own process
-Recover the loss potential
-Talk about how you feel right now
This encourages change for a moment in time. Enforcing change on the person for a moment. Like saying "i" instead of "it". Or changing your movement to an exagerration. Could i make an installation where someone has to change their behaviour for a moment.
I am considering the key words of each kind of therapy. Gestalt therapy:
-Take responsibility
-Facilitating the process and then changing it
-Prompting you to imagine and deal with that person straight away.
-Discover your own process
-Recover the loss potential
-Talk about how you feel right now
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