Dwalen door de stad, research voor Liefde

Dwalen door de stad
op maandagavond van 00:00 - 01:00

Maandagavond heb ik
8 mensen thuisgebracht
1 ketting op mn fiets gelegd
3 keer stil gestaan bij het grof vuil
2 sirenes gekruist
nog nooit zo langzaam gefietst

Verras een vuilnisman
Het dwalen door de stad deed me denken aan een filmpje dat ik vier jaar geleden met een vriend, Johannes Hoogebrink, heb gemaakt. 's Nachts verzamelden we objecten van het grof vuil en bouwden daarmee een huiskamer op de stoep.

e.g. JanFamily, Plans for other days. (Booth-Clibborn Editions)

designLAB graduation publication 2009

Notes on possible approaches

contentwise:
researching how words - (process) - outcome are related in each of the projects, conveying this back & forth dynamic
looking for the essence, the added value of the 10 projects & contrasting the different approaches
formulating chapters to see how the projects can relate to these common themes (as entry points to the projects)
e.g. matter / time / nature / dimension
providing reading tracks
not chronological but thematic

formwise:
a book-book, the first of a collection of designLAB, to be printed on demand?
each essay with its own template, to be assembled by the public?
an archive of all the essays AND an edited version?
final works to be added last minute?
everything solved as text?
loose binding?

The publication under one topic: ................................ (the term reflective practices comes close)

Klosjes van vilt en mallen van hout

"Slijpen is een kwestie van gelijkmatig kunnen draaien."

Felting atelier

Phylene Lemans atelier

Phylene is an example of a pro am. She has studied dutch literature and worked as a child therapist, teacher of dutch and the last 3 years she decided to make a hobby of hers into a professional activity. She started with workshops on how to felt, felting hats and continued following lectures on felting. She also did an experimental workshop held by Jongstra.
Now she has her own atelier in the oud west. At her atelier ,which she shares with a fine arts painter you can see her felting with her students, chatting over a cup of coffee or trying on beautiful hats in peculiar forms and colors. Sometimes she is giving workshops in schools and activity centers in Holland. “I load my car with all kins of fabrics,wool and soap and drive kilometers giving workshops on felting.It is something that gives me a lot of pleasure."

http://www.feltamsterdam.nl/home/1

Kodama visited.

Rob Bunnik
Jaldhara Bakker
www.kodama.nl
KODAMA>atelier+ winkel

Rob and Jaldhare create beautiful custom made interiors in Japanese style.

They produce and sell their creations in their space near overtoom. The space is beautiful, the smell of the exotic wood fills the air and classical music is playing non stop. They work long hours in a relaxed pace. They enjoy what they do. In fact Rob gave up a carier in medicine and Jaldhare a job working with mentally handicaped people , in order to open their own wood atelier.

foodbank (click here) <----

Papabubble: sugar, spice and everything nice.

Located on Haarlemmerdijk

70 is the papabubble candy-

workshop.
Here a young crew produces

handmade candy using

interesting techniques,

treating the material (sugar)

sometimes as clay, other

times as glass.

The boundaries are quite low

to have something produced

here, though the labour can

get expensive.

Nevertheless their (work)shop

is open to all.

For Fumitaka Saito Holland means tulips, windmills and a "Mekka" for recorders.

Fumitaka makes recorders but sometimes they turn out as bananas!

- by Melina Pyykkonen

Questions relating to production

Why make only recorders?

Fumitaka studied for 5 years to play but considers himself better at making than playing them.

Why Amsterdam?

Amsterdam and Holland are a “Mekka” for recorders also due to Frans Bruggen, who is a very well-known recorder player.

Where do you get your material?

He considers himself lucky that his supplieris in Amsterdam, in the Houthaven called Fijnhouthandel.

Who and where is your customer?

He only produces on order for customersworld-wide. He does not visit his customers but it would be better if he sees them.

How long does it take to make one?

Preparation of the wood takes 6 years. For it needs to dry.

Production problems?

The banana effect! The wood lives and it can happen that when he sends a straight instrument to the customer, it changes during sending, customer complaints, recorder is sent back but is straight again when it reaches Fumitaka!!

this is an example: use your "quote" as title for your portrait post

add images (RGB,jpg, gif, bmp or png images, max 150 KB, max 500 pixels wide)
or
add a movie (AVI, MPEG, QuickTime, Real, or Windows Media, max 1 MB)

add text (font: verdana, size: normal)
- your name
- name & (url) address of production site
- anecdote (max 100 words)
- summary of most interesting answers to the 5 questions
+
LAB 1: enter images of work by a related artist + a link to this artist
LAB 2: enter an image of your production compas (material-production-city process)
+
enter images & text of your own production research project (free format)

label your post with "the city :: production apparatus"

" de rolls royce onder de broodmachines "

- by Jette Borger


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the city :: production apparatus

Afbeelding: Kaart Amsterdam uit Brockhaus Konversations Lexikon 1901 Erster Band 'A - Athelm'

Who is making what, where, how, with whom and why in Amsterdam today?

Between October and December 2008, designLAB students are exploring Amsterdam's finest production systems. Each place is portrayed through a set of questions & answers, a vizualized gesture and a quote. The portraits can be seen as personal odes to the craftmanship, passion and production wisdom of these places.

The 5 basic questions relate to the system around a specific mode of production:
- what do you make? [produce]
- how much does it ‘cost’ to make it? [money / labor]
- what can you do and not do? [limits/terms of production process]
- where does it come from / what does it take to make it? [input]
- where does it go? [output]


During a first brainstorm we defined interesting forms of production:
:: positive: ‘output’
:: negative: stealing, keeping secret, throwing away, destroying, wasting
:: random
:: accidental, unplanned
:: marginal
:: limited / unlimited
:: amateur / professional / pro-am
:: profit / non profit
:: material / immaterial

Related links discussed during the project:
www.demos.co.uk
www.shrinkingcities.com
www.movingcities.org
www.megastructure-reloaded.org/en/yona-friedman

“ Intelligence starts with improvisation (...) The thing with cities (...) is that it’s all about behavior. A building that has no user is no building.” - from an interview between Yona Friedmann and Hans Ulrich Obrist, about Merzbau

“A Pro-Am pursues an activity as an amateur, mainly for the love of it, but sets a professional standard. For Pro-Ams, leisure is not passive consumerism but active and participatory. Pro-Ams demand we rethink many of the categories through which we divide up our lives. Pro-Ams are a new social hybrid. Their activities are not adequately captured by the traditional definitions of work and leisure, professional and amateur, consumption and production.”

wednesday 24/10.

Lab 1, Lab 2 :
pimp your lab workplace,v.2!
-everyone please bring what you need
to create your space-

Make design_lab a magical lab!

Personalise your space and make it work for you!

remember...
Your workplace is already a platform of communication within the design_lab!

Keep updating-reinventing your workspaces regularly!

Subject: new ideas, maybe

From: Stefanija Najdovska
Date: September 19, 2007 10:25:55 AM GMT+02:00
To: sophie krier

Hey Sophie,

Good morning.
Yesterday, after the discussion we had about improving our lab and working on it so it becomes the way we all want it... we were talking with Fleur and Lauriane. We've came to realize something really interesting. I don't know if it would be of any use for you, but it's a funny fact.
Everytime we have break, or we finish class, and we go infront of school, we start taking and so many ideas, suggestions and questions rise (for current or even new projects, school...) . I think its because eventhough there are many people outside, we are kinda grouped and talk. People from different departments, and teachers... it seems to be more relaxed, then when we are in class talking at once with 30 people. Maybe its the coffee-tee, the cigarettes... or just being outside that has influence on us, but its and interesting situation. Maybe somehow we can integrate that in the way our lab works.
Also, we realized that immediately after discussion in class, we are still kind of stuck with questions, but they do however come later on. So maybe it could be in idea like you said that we send them to you later, or we ask them the next time we have class.

Ok, well that would be all for now...


See you soon,
Stefi

DESIGN LAB SESSION 2

Questions in reaction to Kees Dorst' lecture.

Melina
How to increase awareness of our assumptions in class situations at the Design Lab?
Robbert
How to close the gap between broad theoretical knowledge and the practise (vertaalslag)?
Rana
How do you specify abstract findings in a project? How do you work with analytical data?
Marjan
How to connect this to the ‘normal’ person who doesn’t know anything from this new design?
Rosa
In what way are we different from non-designers?
David
What is design for me?
Sjoerd
Do designers still need a personal intuition in the new design?
Sophie
Why do we have to put new in front of everything?
Laurianne
How does the environment influence us and how to keep your own touch?
Johanna
How to learn to initiate projects when we are studying
Alexander
What is more effective for the designlab; a collective or a hierarchical structure
Stefie
In a changing world why do we need consistant values?
Does intuition follows changes?
Peik
What are natural partners in design-process?
Ben
Is design becoming part of social studies, is antropology replacing industry, how should they work together?
Fleur
Would it be helpfull for the designlab to have brainstorms with people of different backgrounds (like sociologists)?
Myrte
Should we dive more into human-behaviours and also social structures (big and small)?
Erik
What should happen to the old-school designers?
Eleny
Is design a tool to reform a society?
Niels
Can a new design create his own value with- or without research?
Kees
Are you ready to open up to design in this way?
Lena
Are the Lab1 students different than the Lab2 students? Why?
Comment of Kees Dorst:
How can we develop a program at the designlab this year that answers these questions? No more projects but adventures.

DESIGN LAB SESSION 3

Tutor's statements & questions to the department related to their professional practice

> how can we study specific places, share our findings, experience a topic physically? how to design specific things? how to generate collective knowledge? (c&m)
> how can we construct meaningful dialogues? how can build rich processes and communicate these? (sk)
> how can we honour the detail? (ls)
> how can we design for changing societies? how can we design open, participatory processes of change?
> how can we innovate beyond style? how can we materialize our ideas?

Lab portraits & questions related the identity of a design lab

> bakery (jeroen) > freeze moment for dough > ideas also need freeze space. what is the dough of the department? what are the special ingredients that we should keep a close eye on?
> vintage store (stefi)> about trying things out, about old and new > is a lab about new ideas or new methods? can one change his/her identity in a lab?
> tichelaar (sjoerd)> database aan mogelijkheden. no formula. learn by trying. > which database should designlab build up? which learning mode fits designlab?
> volkskrantgebouw (eva) > how to learn from each other, to combine skills, and how can spatial configuration support this?
> mouth (melina)> a sensor for the environment
> (fleur) >how can our lab be linked to specialists from outside the design discipline?
> (david) > drogisterij > how is possible / how can be a quality to be conservative in a lab?
> (marjan) > fablab> how could a designlab look as magical to the outside as a chemistry lab looks to us?
> (rosa) >where does a question come from in a lab? - fomr society?
> (johanna) > fiestfabriek > are there any innovative researchers about creating movement / mobility with muscle power?

Design LAB SESSION 2

Lecture by Kees Dorst & Questions to the department

Design LAB SESSION 1

Notes Sept 3 2007: manifesto issues

About technology & craft, new functionalism. need for a beeldenstorm.
The courage to explore unknown areas. What should the courage of the department be?
What could design lead to if it could go where it wants to go?
Design: an immediate, accessible, direct, democratic medium?
How to communicate the value behind design?
Can good design be invisible? Should design be recognized?
About the necessity of communicating. What is communication? Communication in public space today is often impersonal. How do LAB projects communicate to the world?
About new surroundings and the need for a safety net. Do we need a safe base, as individuals and/or as a department? Can Design Lab be a reference point / a home to its students?
Is Rietveld a protective environment? Do we want that?
The idea of a manifest on-the-go. Letting intuition play a role in guiding the work process.
About the need for things to be more human, more warm. What does being human mean to each of us?
Starting with a clean street, getting over preconceived ideas of design. How to stay open, experiment?
Speaking in LAB metaphors.. triggers images of what’s written.
About reading, how to organize a good setting for this, how to maintain discipline?
What should our LAB library look like?
About the balance between thinking and doing, how to create that balance, work towards it?
How to maintain belief in your projects? To keep a good energy with what you are doing?

Concept future agenda points: basis for design exercises?

• What should the courage of the department be? What could design lead to if it could go where it wants to go?
• How to achieve a balance between thinking and doing in projects?
• How to create a HUMAN LAB?
• What should our LAB library look like, function?
• Can we establish a LAB language, lexicon?
• Can our LAB be a temporary home?