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pa href=”http://www.danishcrafts.org/”Danish Crafts/a will be presenting a href=”http://www.danishcrafts.org/visArtikel.uk.asp?artikelID=1856″emMindcraft/em/a for the third time in Milan this year, continuing to bring a selection of the best of Danish craftspeople to Zona Tortona. The exhibit, entitled “Would You Mind,” presents an “open-minded approach to form and materials,” representing the edge of formal and material experimentation, while situating craft in a dialogue with art and design. /p

pMathias Bengston’s emPaper Chair/em, for example, mixes both digital and handmaking process to create a chair from recycled paper. Each of the 2000 profiles is coated with a thin film of glue, then stacked together and exposed to both pressure and heat, forming a “homogenous 3-dimensional body.” Bengston uses both black and white paper to highlight the form and lend it a graphic nature./p

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pIsabel Berglund’s emCloset Knitter/em, is a completely hand-knit, white closet, containing a chair with a sweater for a seat and a floating wig/light socket. Conflating function, texture, surreality, and occupiability, the work seeks to “move between categories such as design, art and fashion.”/p

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pKatrin Borup’s emHeavy Metal/em, maybe the cheekiest of all the Mindcraft projects, is a golden ring with a giant rock for a gem, carved by a stone cutter. Not just a visual joke, the ring alludes to an important backstorymdash;in order to produce an ounce of gold, a big chunk of mountain is removed and crushed. Next year, we’d like to see a ring that represents all the gold produced in the world every year, a href=”http://www.howstuffworks.com/question213.htm”said to fit in a 14ft cube./a/p

pSee the rest of the participating designers in Milan./p

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In the ideal world, historian and author Russell Flinchum would host a nightly television program about the rich heritage of American design, ensuring that names like Henry Dreyfuss, Walter Dorwin Teague, and Norman Bel Geddes don’t slip further into the recesses of national memory. Until then, you can catch Flinchum on the page, in the classroom, and delighting audiences from Manhattan to Bartlesville, Oklahoma with the occasional public lecture. Lucky for you, one such occasion is tomorrow evening at New York’s Center for Architecture, where Flinchum will deliver the annual Gil Oberfield Memorial Lecture. The talk, American Design in the MoMA Collection, will draw upon the research and visual scavenger hunt he undertook in assembling his latest book, American Design (MoMA), which takes readers from the work of the earliest machinists to the machine age, mod, and beyond. Flinchum tells us that he’ll focus on American design from the ‘twenties through the ‘sixties, using a number of rarely-seen examples from MoMA’s Architecture and Design Collection to reinforce his points about what makes American design American. Register here for the talk, which is free thanks to sponsor Gensler.

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pThe a href=”http://www.idsa.org/absolutenm/templates/?a=5103z=31″2010 IDSA District Conferences/a are right around the corner, with five events taking place at venues across the country from April 9 through May 2. These are great events that bring together local ID communities nation wide. Beyond the typical main-stage panels and presentations, these conferences are unique for their focus on student activities and student work./p

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pThis year Core77 is happy to be a media sponsor for all five events, and we will be hosting the portfolio review at the a href=”http://www.idsa.org/absolutenm/templates/?a=5079z=217″Northeast District Conference/a (our stomping grounds!). Yours truly will be on a panel discussion about how to best present yourself and your work. So make sure to a href=”http://www.idsa.org/absolutenm/templates/?a=5103z=31″check the schedule page/a for the event in your area and then come one down! br /
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pAs posted earlier on, the a href=”http://www.interaction.rca.ac.uk/”RCA Design Interaction Department/a featured the a href=”http://impact-art.ning.com/”IMPACT! show/a, the outcome of various collaborations between science and design. Here some more of the exhibited project:/p

pa href=”http://www.thomasthwaites.com/”Thomas Thwaites/a presented his emPolicing Genes/em project, which deals with the fact that genetically engineered plants, that can produce vaccines, are currently undergoing field trials. In his project he speculates that, blockquotelike other emerging technologies, this will also find use outside the law, with narcotics and and controlled pharmaceuticals grown in innocent looking garden plants. It proposes a police response that uses the natural behaviors of bees to monitor the genetic make-up of pollen in an area./blockquote/p

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pa href=”http://www.michael-burton.co.uk/”Michael Burton/a investigates with his project emAstronomical Bodies/em the possibility, that the type of phosphorus needed to kick-start new life, here and perhaps in other universes, arrived to earth in a meteorite. He therefore created an apron to collect and capture phosphate from urine, which crystallizes in its front chambers and forms kidney stones. These could be sent as meteorites into space and possibly seed life on other habitable planets./p

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pFeatured above is a href=”http://www.tuurvanbalen.com”Tuur van Baalen’s/a emSynthetic Immune System/em, dealing with the scientific idea that micro-organisms such as yeast could sense and diagnose anomalies in our bodies. He therefore suggests to externalize our immune system to make healthcare more personal and participatory./p

pa href=”http://www.revitalcohen.com/”Revital Cohen/a showed a emPhantom Recorder/em, addressing the fact that, when limbs are lost, the mind often develops a phantom sensation. The system projects a cold and damp sensation onto the skin surface, triggering the brain to hallucinate a phantom. blockquoteAs the phantom movement stimulates the peripheral nerves, its activity is captured by the neural implant and external wireless machinery. When a prosthetic has been fitted, digital data of the recorded phantom sensation can be transmitted to the implant, allowing the nerves to recreate the sensation of a telescopic phantom hand, a fourth foot or a spit arm./blockquote/pa href=”http://www.core77.com/blog/events/royal_college_of_art_design_interaction_show_impact_part_2_16229.asp”(more…)/a
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pThe a href=”http://www.interaction.rca.ac.uk/index.html”Design Interaction department/a of the Royal College of Art in London currently shows an exhibition which is a unique collaboration between science and design, “exploring the importance of engineering and pysical sciences in all aspects of our lives”./p

blockquoteThe a href=”http://impact-art.ning.com/”IMPACT! exhibition/a is an experiment. Each of the sixteen design projects has been created by graduates, staff and students from the Design Interactions department at the Royal College of Art, and are based on a research project or research centre supported by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council. The research included in the exhibition spans the broad spectrum of engineering and physical sciences. It ranges from renewable energy devices and security technologies to the emerging fields of synthetic biology and quantum computing. The design projects they have created bring a new perspective to the research. They do not seek to predict the future, or show design applications of science, but offer a creative interpretation of these new scientific ideas./blockquote

pShown above are emThe 5th dimensional Camera/em by a href=”http://www.superflux.in/”Anab Jain/a and a href=”http://www.jonardern.com”Jon Ardern/a, a fictional device that captures glimpses of parallel universes suggested by quantum physics./p

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pa href=”http://www.auger-loizeau.com”James Auger’s/a emHappyLife/em is a surveillance set up to detect psychological processes that could indicate guilty intentions. blockquoteIn the context of national security, invasive technology is accepted because the worst-case scenario would be infinitely worse. These technologies though often filter into everyday life where their application has a far more questionable presence./blockquote/p

pa href=”http://www.noamtoran.com”Noam Toran/a presented his new movie emIf we never meet again/em, which is shot from two different perspectives: a man’s and a machine’s. The dual imagery invites multiple readings of a single scene. /pa href=”http://www.core77.com/blog/events/royal_college_of_art_design_interaction_show_impact_part_1_16195.asp”(more…)/a
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