A Changing World
From what I understood of Stefan Hajkowicz' lecture, the future of design itself seems to depend on knowledge about our world and its future. Especially in what seem to be increasingly volatile circumstances relating to both situations mostly within human control (conflict and economic depression) and mostly outside of our control (climate change), there is an ever increasing demand for understanding and prediction. Furthermore he spoke about 'megatrends', a term given to streams of action, thought and issues most important to today's civilisation. The trends the CSIRO had come up with are grouped within the following:
- limited resources
- digital vs natural
- personalisation of products & services
- urbanising & increased mobility
- divergent demographies
It struck me as interesting that, unknowingly, most of these trends have been covered in the projects done by our class. My group, Unmasked is definitely focusing on divergent demographies - as I've mentioned before our project is largely based on finding the individuality hidden in several target groups of people. Bottled up and Taking the Piss is looking at the opinion of individual people and Traces Of Darlo is focusing on individual experiences through photography. The furniture group are concerned with personalising products discarded by the greater community (which also creates a cradle-to-cradle* phenomenon) and is related to the idea of limited resources. And Grassroots is all about promoting greener urban spaces.
Perhaps there's something in this megatrends idea?
*McDonough, William and Braungart, Michael 2002, Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way we Make Things, North Point Press, New York
Thursday, October 28, 2010
Tuesday, October 12, 2010
85701 - Mid Sem Break
Public Art
One of the best things about our project, I think, is the blurring of lines between art and design. I guess one thing I don't like much about my professional degree (fashion) is how tailored it becomes to what will sell - it limits the creativity. I think in design projects like situational city, we can use that creativity in more of an artistic way rather than minimising our work for the consumerist world.
In the semester break I saw a lot of the art & about exhibition around the city.
One work in particular reminded me a lot of our group's project. It focuses on images of Sydney sider individuals, showing a range of ages, sexualities, ethnicities, and vocations, essentially the City of Sydney's eight target groups* - (children, young people, older people, women, Aboriginal people, people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, people with a disability and gay, lesbian and transgender people).
We're aiming to do something similar with out film sequences, focusing on the quirky details that make each individual special.
Through Lucas Ihlein, I've gotten in touch with David Urquhart, a very charistmatic, interesting man who works at the MCA. He has agreed to "star" in one of our sequences. I'm building a storyboard surrounding some of his own eccentricities as part of our "older man" demographic. Hopefully we'll have most of our trial and error filming work done by this week and we can start filming! I'm very optimistic about Open House. I think some of the project are really cool and the night will be an awesome success.
*City of Sydney 2006- 2010, Social Policy and Social Plan, viewed 12 October 2010 <http://www.cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au/council/formspoliciespublication/SocialPlan.asp>
One of the best things about our project, I think, is the blurring of lines between art and design. I guess one thing I don't like much about my professional degree (fashion) is how tailored it becomes to what will sell - it limits the creativity. I think in design projects like situational city, we can use that creativity in more of an artistic way rather than minimising our work for the consumerist world.
In the semester break I saw a lot of the art & about exhibition around the city.
One work in particular reminded me a lot of our group's project. It focuses on images of Sydney sider individuals, showing a range of ages, sexualities, ethnicities, and vocations, essentially the City of Sydney's eight target groups* - (children, young people, older people, women, Aboriginal people, people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, people with a disability and gay, lesbian and transgender people).
We're aiming to do something similar with out film sequences, focusing on the quirky details that make each individual special.
Through Lucas Ihlein, I've gotten in touch with David Urquhart, a very charistmatic, interesting man who works at the MCA. He has agreed to "star" in one of our sequences. I'm building a storyboard surrounding some of his own eccentricities as part of our "older man" demographic. Hopefully we'll have most of our trial and error filming work done by this week and we can start filming! I'm very optimistic about Open House. I think some of the project are really cool and the night will be an awesome success.
*City of Sydney 2006- 2010, Social Policy and Social Plan, viewed 12 October 2010 <http://www.cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au/council/formspoliciespublication/SocialPlan.asp>
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