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Can’t make it to Art Basel Miami Beach this year? Be a virtual art collector with s[edition], a just-launched web venture that has convinced contemporary art stars such as Damien Hirst, Tracey Emin, Shepard Fairey, Tim Noble and Sue Webster, and Bill Viola to take part in a new breed of online gallery. The limited edition works up for sale aren’t tangible&#8212they’re digital images and videos that can be purchased for display on mobile phones, tablets, and computers, or simply hoarded in one’s virtual art “vault.” The London-based company is the brainchild of Harry Blain , founder of Haunch of Venison and Blain|Southern galleries, and Robert Norton, the former CEO of Saatchi Online. Prices range from $8 to download a Wim Wenders photograph of the side of a Safeway supermarket to $800 for one of 2,000 digital editions of Hirst’s “For Heaven Sake,” (above), a diamond-encrusted, platinum baby’s skull that slowly rotates in an HD video. The price includes a digital-watermarked edition and a certificate of authenticity. “We believe that s[edition] allows new global audiences access to works by the world’s leading artists,” said Blain in a statement announcing the site’s launch. “The digital format is one that many artists are already working in, and many more in the future will encompass as a part of their practice.”

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Our Christmas pop-up store The Temporium opens tomorrow and will host an eclectic array of designers and brands including Australian company Matilda, who will showcase a selection of products and furniture by designers from Down Under (Dove Stools by Brian Steendyk shown above).

Read on for details of other products that will be available at The Temporium including padded pockets for portable devices, indestructible maps and much more…

Matilda represents Australian designers internationally, while trying to manufacture products locally in the UK or Europe (pendant light by Kate Stokes above): www.matilda-design.com

The Temporium is at 65 Monmouth Street, Seven Dials, Covent Garden, London WC2H 9DG from 1-24 December 2011. More info: www.thetemporium.com

German designer Alexa Lixfeld is presenting a range of handmade products including handwoven dolls, porcelain cups, bowls and vessels and cashmere blankets: www.alexalixfeld.com

Papernomad manufacture cases for portable devices including laptops, iPads, iPhones and Blackberries from organic materials. Layers of paper, cotton and sheep’s wool make the padded sleeves tear-resistant, waterproof and biodegradable: www.papernomad.com

All Lovely Stuff will bring a selection of their practical and quirky homewares to The Temporium, including mirrors, coat racks, door stops and salad servers: www.alllovelystuff.com

People Will Always Need Plates will present products from their homeware, stationery and clothing ranges featuring graphic interpretations of iconic architecture and design: www.peoplewillalwaysneedplates.co.uk

Emanuele Pizzolorusso‘s maps of major cities for Italian brand Palomar are made of a soft waterproof materials and can survive being screwed up and stuffed in a pocket or bag: www.palomarweb.com

Designer Lee Washington’s first product under his new label Little Man Shop is a paper clip designed to make people smile: www.littlemanshop.com

See our special category for more details on the designers and brands taking part in The Temporium.

Dezeen presents The Temporium

65 Monmouth Street
Seven Dials, Covent Garden
London WC2H 9DG

Map

Telephone:
020 7503 7319

Dates:
1-24 December 2011

Opening times:
Monday – Saturday: 11:00 – 19:00
Late-night shopping Thursday until 20:00
Sunday: 12:00 – 17:00

Press preview:
1-5pm, Thursday 1 December

Opening reception with Peroni and Pom Pom Takoyaki:
6-9pm, Thursday 1 December

www.thetemporium.com

Flexible kitchen design in the Wounded Warrior home. All images and video courtesy of IDEO

In less than a month, the last American troops stationed in Iraq are set to return home. As the United States prepares to celebrate the close of a painfully fraught era of politics and war, veterans and their families face the beginning of their next great challenge: returning home and acclimating to a peacetime “normalcy.” Oftentimes, United States’ military men and women carry the physical and emotional wounds of their service home with them, “find[ing] workarounds to cope with their surroundings based on individual capabilities and preferences.” Today, IDEO and Michael Graves Associates see their work come alive as the U.S. Army Fort Belvoir and Clark Realty Capital unveil a new model for building accessible homes on military installations: the Wounded Warrior home.

The Wounded Warrior project is a collaboration with the Virginia-based real estate firm Clark Realty Capital and supported by a Department of Defense initiative to develop privatized housing for service members. Using IDEO’s human-centered design process, the team interviewed and observed 10 civilians and 20 injured soldiers, “meeting with their loved ones, and getting feedback from nearly two dozen experts. [IDEO] asked questions that shed light on how active duty service members resume civilian life after debilitating injuries, what could make their experience more dignified and healthy, and what might reconnect them with family, close friends, and the world.” IDEO also immersed itself in the recovery and therapy process for disabled veterans and consulted with dozens of medical experts and advocacy groups.

Through their process, the team quickly realized that there was no one Wounded Warrior, but instead, their work would need to accommodate a wide range of interactions and needs of disabled service men and women. IDEO identified seven dualities from their research:

• Well-Defined, Undefined Spaces: A home is never set in stone. In a household, roles shift, preferences change and most important, physical and mental impairments dictate an evolving set of challenges. This demands a flexible design that allow for both defined and undefined space. People wish to be the architect of their own home. Open-ended space gives them square feet to imagine an optimism and future they shape themselves.
• Mobile Roots: It’s difficult to sink down roots when they’re yanked up every few years. The constant flux of transient military life places extra demands on a family. People don’t want to feel they’re just passing through, short timers, skipping from base to base. They want home to feel like they’ve finally arrived at their destination. The dynamic of mobility and deep roots often decides a big chunk of happiness.
• Inside Out, Outside In: Poets, explorers, and rehab therapists all know the immense healing powers of nature. It’s a tremendous gift for anyone suffering wounds, physical or mental. The outside world or even back patio is a deep-breath metaphor for freedom. Nature is force of nurture. This duality is about bringing the outside experience inside the home—and equally important, making sure the journey outside is short, effortless, and joyful.
• Visible & Invisible Security: Trauma, post combat stress, reduced mobility—these are issues that make it hard to feel safe and secure. People want the protection of their hidden cocoon but also a total 360 degree visual awareness of their surroundings. It’s about providing security through concealment and reduced exposure—yet also creating security through visibility, instant communication, and control of their environment.
• Social Privacy: Sometimes people view their home as a sanctuary, a retreat, a place of privacy and introspection. Other times, people see their home as a gateway to the outside world—to social and cultural connections that both determine well-being. A home must be a restful oasis and a place for raucous good times—both equally therapeutic.
• Uniquely Normal: Here are two distinct and contrary requirements: the desire to live a normal life despite significant physical and often mental wounds. Normal in the just like everybody-else sense. No special treatment whatsoever. But second, the obvious need for specific accommodations that dramatically improve quality of life. In the home, the goal is to strike that balance: a wheel chair-friendly dream home, but one that appears ordinary, nothing more than plain wonderful normal life.
• Old Self, New Self: Healing is a long and winding road. The early stages are about repairing the damage, rebuilding what was lost. Over time, the unique determination of Wounded Warriors drive them toward self-improvement and transformation. The human beauty is that great loss also inspires tremendous new gain. This calls for an architecture that encourages that recovery, no matter where or how far that journey takes them

Visible and Invisible Security in private nooks in a Uniquely Normal Living Room.

Today’s unveiling of the Wounded Warrior model home represents an innovative and flexible approach to addressing the needs of not only disabled military veterans, but a wide-ranging group of people facing physical disabilities. Clark Realty partnered with architect Michael Graves to build the first homes—Graves brought his personal insights to the project. Graves has suffered from lower-body paralysis that has confined him to a wheelchair for nearly a decade, and through this experience, he has gained significant expertise into how people live and work, whether mobility challenged or not. We’re excited to see which concepts Graves took from IDEO’s work and how the build will be realized today in Fort Belvoir.

Core77 had the opportunity to sit down with Altay Sendil, IDEO designer and project lead for the Wounded Warrior house to learn more about the process and learnings from this unique project:

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