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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.