Jason Miller

hoover

7 weeks to go

I am considering designing furniture for a living room.

1. A tea/table that shreds or blends the stuff and forms the table.
2. A light that displays the stuff, such as newspaper cuttings.

the furniture will apply to typical items of hoarding. Celebrating the hoarding.
A compulsive hoarders living room.

What a hoarders furniture would be? The above items, a hoover? kettle? iron?
Not using the typical look of a piece of furniture. The design would suit a hoarders way of living? Considering not using design baggage, almost reinventing the design of the particular furniture.

ultimo grito

ron arad chair

Memo bean bag, 1999

Plastic, styrene beads
Design: Inflate and Ron Arad
Production: Inflate, UK

Memo bean bag, 1999
Plastic, styrene beads
Design: Inflate and Ron Arad
After the British designer Nick Crosbie gave a lecture to the product design students at the Royal College of Art in London on the inflatable furniture he was developing, the department head Ron Arad suggested that they work together to rethink the Transformer seat which he had developed in the 1980s. Having agreed to create a seat in the form of an air-tight bag with an adjustable valve and styrene beads inside to add rigidity once it was inflated, they developed a series of prototypes in the hope of producing a comfortable and robust bean bag. Memo was unveiled as a pre-production prototype at the Milan Furniture Fair in April 1999 and went into full production a few months later.

ron arad book worm

Eames chair

key words

ways of compressing/ facilitating

alternative use for the items

hoard

run out of room

duplicate of items- 'on offer might be useful'

Alternative ways people filled the chair

Quique Corrales presents film

Ways of seeing!!

All the time your view is changing. You are constantly completing what you see through memory.
Lajete Terry Gillians
Hockney in art
Zbignien Rybczyuki: tango
Mein Fenster
Milos Tomik: clay pigeon
Svankmajer; passionate discourse
Mclaren
Tetsuo
Jasonpink.com luz
Michel Gondry

Below is the official list:

GOLDSMITH WORKSHOP.

QUIQUE CORRALES.

e-mail: enrique.corrales@uem.es

info@zaunka.com

website: www.zaunka.com

films: www.zaunka.com

http://vimeo.com/zaunka

http://vimeo.com/user1401516

FILMAKERS.

CHRIS MARKER

LA JETÉE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nw0UIhLArTM&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBnQKslFQYQ&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wN5YJi_XuEE&feature=related

BIOGRAPHY

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Marker

ZBIGNIEW RYBCZYŃSKI

TANGO/STEEPS

http://rhizome.org/editorial/2421

Web

http://www.zbigvision.com/

BIOGRAPHY

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zbigniew_Rybczy%C5%84ski

SVANKMAJER

DIMENSION OF DIALOG

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2gtpo_jan-svankmajer-dimensions-of-dialog_shortfilms

DARKNESS/LIGHT/DARKNESS

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LuBwXfg3Mr4

BIOGRAPHY

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_%C5%A0vankmajer

SPIKE JONZE

http://www.directorslabel.com/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UmNLBUPrnGM

Reversal Video Clip

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmNIvlVt40M

Real Slow Motion Video Clip

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPT7q825gwI

MICHEL GONDRY

http://www.michelgondry.com/

http://www.director-file.com/gondry/index.html

http://www.directorslabel.com/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXhEDuL5DGg

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x8far_clip-video-white-stripes-michel-gon

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x16v4r_michel-gondry-solve-rubik-cube-with_fun

STILLCAMERASFILMS

http://vimeo.com/1525089

VIDEO

Vimeo http://vimeo.com/hd

Blip.tv http://blip.tv/

Smugmug http://www.smugmug.com/

TV ON LINE

Ustream http://www.ustream.tv/

Mogulus http://www.mogulus.com/

Stickam http://stickam.com/

DSRL FILM MODE

http://i.gizmodo.com/5042209/nikon-d90-official-first-dslr-ever-with-hd-video-recording

http://www.dpreview.com/news/0809/08091705canon_5dmarkII.asp

CAMERAS ACCESORIES

http://www.letusdirect.com/cart/letus35-ultimate.html

http://www.redrockmicro.com/lensadapter/index.html

Different processes of shoving stuff together.

Different processes of putting stuff together.

Bind staple stiffen weave rip stain allow squash squeeze dye scrunch chew wet plat push pull blow stick twist suck fight roll curl tie knot melt glue lather paint sculpt carry sit on jump on skip on

Habits - picking/ biting nails/ scabs
Addictions- smoking drinking

Using vices for positive solutions.

only 9 weeks to go

The stage my project is at.

Facilitating the management of hoarding.
Not seeing hoarding from a negative angle. Accumulation is accepted.
Reverse of loss, accumulation to deal with loss.
Integrate mess into different types of furniture.
Make it part of everyday life.
Explore ways of making form out of stuff.
Different processes of shoving stuff together.
How it is held together.

Invisible and visible forms.

Making form and how the hoarder might accumulate stuff.
The furniture giving form to the stuff.

Allowing the management of hoarding.

Accumulation of stuff as a response to the issues.

Form/ material making through accumulation.

What furniture is it?

-Domestic?
-To do with therapy?

A double comment about accumulation and therapy?

*Look at three more classic pieces of furniture. Like the Freud chair.

How to give structure to material
Structure is created in the way material is manipulated

Crushed in alternative ways to create elements of furniture.

Types of therapy applied to furniture.
What furniture are they using?

Furniture that allows the practices to take place.

Allow for filling up, object is finished when it is full.


Marti Guixe: building up books to create a seat. Nice and simple. Needs filling to function.

Konstantin Grcic designed a magazine holder.

CHAIR

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.

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".

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

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.

CAKE!

Guessing the weight of the cake!


Ray wins the cake with the nearest guess of 2.2kg
Ray generously shares his win!