Contemporary II :DESIGN

Stage 1 LectureContextual and Critical StudiesAndrea Peach

Alessandro Mendini 1978

“Redesign of Modern Movement Chairs” Wassily by Breuer, Italy

Marcel Breuer 1925

Pluralism

No one single

architectural or design

theory to be

pre-eminent

‘What are increasingly produced are not material objects, but signs’

Roland Barthes

Tim HeadState of the Art, 1984

Elevating the Ordinary

Designing with

“Readymades”

Massimo VarettoMircorservice Holder

Marcel DuchampThe Ready-made

Marcel Duchamp Fountain 1917

“the conscious decision to

take an object by act of

will, wrest it into another

context of meaning, so that

its use, its worth, its

symbolic value are bleached

of their associations and

must all be re-assessed,

fundamentally

reinterpreted’

Achille and Pier Giacomo Castiglioni

Tractor Seat 1957

Elevating the OrdinaryEnvironmental Responsibility

Object Fetishism

Wit and Humour

Memory and Nostalgia

Elevating the Ordinary

Neo-Modernism

Independence and Control

Sobriety and Modesty

Environmental Responsibility

Tord BoontjetranSglass 1997

Environmental Responsibility

Michael Marriott

It would be ridiculous if everyone just kept looking for an attractive new form.

It can be more interesting to look at what is already there and try to apply it in a different way.

Environmental Responsibility

jamRobostacker

Never believe a designer who says his inspiration came from the air

Environmental Responsibility

Object Fetishism

Jasper MorrisonThe practice of seeing is a designer’s most vital education. Everything seen and assessed will have an influence on the way he or she designs…

A World Without Words

Object Fetishism

Jasper Morrison

German railway handle

Jasper MorrisonFSB handle1990

Object Fetishism

jamMooving Image

Wit and Humour

Carl ClerkinPie&Mashtray 1998

Wit and Humour

Carl ClerkinBucket seat 1999

Memory and Nostalgia

Manon van KouswijkTablecloth 2001

Memory and Nostalgia

Gijs BakkerWallpaper Peepshow1992

Neo-Modernism

John Pawson - Minimum 1996

The minimum could be defined as the

perfection that an artefact achieves when

it is no longer possible to improve it by

subtraction. This is the quality that an

object has when every component, every

detail, and every junction has been

reduced or condensed to the essentials.

It is the result of the omission of the

inessentials.

Neo-Modernism

Pawson House1997

Flowers, even salt and pepper get in the way…

Neo-Modernism

M&CoThe 5 O’clock Clock2000

Independence and Control

Michael MarriottXL1 Kit Chair 1991

Independence and Control

Jurgen BeyShort leg 2000

Sobriety and Modesty

Peter van der JagtBottom’s Up doorbell1994

Sobriety and Modesty

Achille CastiglioniIlluminator 1954

Never be convinced of being good

It is not my ambition to leave my mark

Elevating the Ordinary

Ingo MaurerZettel’z 1997

“Creativity is

less a question of

inventing than of

reorganising what

is already there”

Umberto Eco

Elevating the Ordinary

Ingo MaurerZettel’z 1997

You arrive at

better design by

doing less.

Not everything

needs to be

redesigned.