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Non sono molti a conoscere il tedesco in Italia, ma può valere la pena di seguire Slanted anche solo per “guardare le figure”. Slanted è uno dei più professionali blog dedicati alla grafica e tipografia, regolarmente online fin dal 2004 e con un patrimonio di articoli e di link imponente.

Slanted non è solo un blog, ma anche un magazine stampato con cadenza quadrimestrale dalla stessa casa editrice che cura la pubblicazione online: la Magma Brand Design. Non possiedo nessuno dei 15 numeri pubblicati finora ma ricordo di averne visti un paio in una libreria a Barcellona qualche anno fa, in compenso nel blog sono pubblicate moltissime anteprime quindi puoi farti un’idea dell’alta qualità contenuta.

In questo articolo mi soffermo sull’ultima uscita Slanted #15, dedicato ad un tema insolito: gli errori e le imprecisioni, visti come fonte di ispirazione ed elemento di cui tenere conto in un progetto tipografico e di comunicazione visiva.

Per essere pubblicato sul prossimo numero di Slanted, tieni d’occhio le Call for entries (come questa) che organizzano sul blog per trovare i lavori da pubblicare nel prossimo numero: essere scelto sarebbe un bel colpo!

Image courtesy of Panthea Lee

Panthea Lee, co-founder of Reboot, spoke today about post-disaster work in Pakistan at the A Better World by Design conference at RISD/Brown. Reboot works with governments and social institutions to redesign their systems and services. Lee is a game-changer to watch in the newest generation of social designer-innovator-entrepreneurs.

Core77: How did you get involved in working with international governments?

Panthea Lee: All my life I had wanted to be a journalist, I grew up writing: done deal. I was all psyched to go to journalism school, had my bags packed, and then my parents go, ‘We did not immigrate to Canada and struggle for twenty years as poor immigrants so that you could go on and be a starving journalist!’ So I wound up in business school. After that, I did the business school job for a while in management and consulting, then went off to China to go be a journalist.

I was traveling a lot in the developing world. Being young and stupid, you’re like, ‘Why does stuff not work? Why don’t people have things? Why don’t people have food and healthcare systems?’ So I started reading up on development and trying to understand the structural aspects of what was going on. I think it started out of youthful anger and then instead of just reporting about social problems, why not try to work on social problems?

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Prior to Reboot, you spent time working with UNICEF and other NGO’s. What did you learn?

I think we’ve agreed that capitalism is not going away in the near term, so what is the role of big business and how do you do development sustainably? If they actually treated poor people as actual customers instead of people who just wanted aid, they would actually design things that people wanted. You realize that in the public sector and in NGO’s there’s no accountability.

So a company makes a lousy product. They put it out to market and people don’t like it and the company has to make a better product otherwise they go out of business. With a lot of these NGO’s, people assume they’re doing a lot of good work and then they design a program poorly or design a bad service and they put it out there and beneficiaries have to use it because they don’t have any other options. There’s no accountability.

Image courtesy of Panthea Lee

So what skills do you bring to the table? You’re not exactly your average designer…

I think I bring the understanding of the development practitioners and the policy makers. Design for social change is a very “sexy” topic and you see a lot of design firms now going to the public sector and to NGO’s saying, ‘We’re designers, we’re here to help you!’ And they’re like, ‘What are you talking about? You don’t speak our language, you don’t know development theory, you don’t know our approach.’ It helps to know why things are the way they are today because so much of the time you see people jumping in and saying, ‘We’re going to design for change and things are going to be better.’

But what’s the context around why we have these problems to begin with? What has already been tried? I think design firms—well-intended, very talented—don’t always understand that and so I think governments look at them a little weirdly. With most of the people from Reboot, we come from those kinds of organizations and we know what we don’t know. I think that is an advantage for us.

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Russian architects Arseniy Borisenko and Peter Zaytsev have completed an outdoor kitchen for a yacht captain that resembles the broken-up hull of a boat.

The spiralling larch pavilion near Moscow was created as part of a television show called Dachniy Otvet, which translates to The Village Talks, and invites different designers and architects to carry out surprise renovations for volunteer clients.

The faceted helical structure comprises 14 chunky planes, each formed of larch planks glued together.

A steel chimney bursts through the ceiling of the pavilion to provide an extract for a brick barbeque.

Other pavilions recently featured on Dezeen include a seaside temple of oriented strand board and a riverside structure where inhabitants can hear what’s going on beneath the water’s surface – see more stories about pavilions on Dezeen.

Photography is by Peter Zaytsev.

Here’s some more information from Za Bor Architects:

Gazebo for TV show

The project has been developed specially for popular TV show «Dachniy Otvet» (Eng: «The village talks»). The idea of the show is that for those owners of country houses and cottages, who agreed to participate in the experiment, the invited designers or architects do re-planning of a part of their village.

The important moment is that the house owners pay nothing for reconstruction, but at the same time they can’t influence the result, so it comes always unexpected for them. The architects in their turn try to offer the most original solutions.

The object here is fairly typical suburban area, with garden trees belonging to the captain of the yacht, who enjoys cooking on the grill with his family and a number of friends.

Architects have suggested to make a small-size self-supporting structure consisting of fourteen planes made of larch white-tinted wood.

The gazebo has the helical structure resembling a sea wave, with an area for feasts (dining zone) and, in the distant second part separated by a small air «gap», is a barbecue area with a chargrill made of brick and steel. Architect’s concept for the construction is transparency and openness which inspires a contact between man and nature, especially because of surroundings: a green lawn and wonderful fruit trees giving an abundant harvest each fall.

Neutral tints of the gazebo are drowning in intense colours of the garden – from the lush green in summer to yellow and red in autumn, and bringing together a rather complex and aggressive form with pastoral Moscow suburbs, allowing it to exist peacefully within the site context.

Arseniy Borisenko and Peter Zaytsev — the architects, are making comments on the project: «We wanted to develop a complex dynamic structure that would not only perform its functions – gazebo and chargrill area, but would preserve the existing context of the site.

Although our project is a complex structure consisting of 14 flat segments, we used neutral colours and natural larch wood.

This helps, on the one hand, to present an object effectively and emphasize its structural features, on the other – to leave it in the existing suburban context, to fuse in the greenery of the garden, to please the eye, not to offend it.

The gazebo planes are an excellent protection from the wind and rainfall, so we hope its new owners will be able to use it not only in summer but in winter as well.

Architects: za bor architects / Arseniy Borisenko, Peter Zaytsev
Location: Moscow Region, Russia
Principal Use: recreation
Engineering: za bor architects
Materials: larchwood, break, steel
Project year: 2011

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