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Tendencies in spatial design through investigations in matter
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| Abstract: The pervasive presence of electronic media in contemporary culture creates a peculiar sensitivity for light movement, temporality and information. Modern axioms like clarity - i.e. transparency, absence and construction face the tackle of a new paradigm. The attentiveness to light patterns as well as design’s benefits of the coalition with the arts disembogues in outcomes which focus on seduction, atmosphere and a prevalent stimulation of the senses. While modernist abstraction favours the rationalisation of object and space, ‘poetic’ illusion and diffusion produce an impact that is mind engaging in the most apt sense. Taking into account technological, theoretical and social discourses, ‘Concrete Translucence’ uses a methodology that focuses on material research considered both as model and instrument to analyse cultural phenomena within the production of space. Concrete as the materialised matrix of a series of particular components operates as analytical metaphor of the structural composition of contemporary societies, while translucence investigates the qualities of perceptive mutations and transmutations within a solidity in transition. Akin to alchemistic traditions the speculative experimentation with matter shall formulate tendencies and values in the conception of spatial design. Author: Armin Blasbichler (I) | Researcher (FUB) Thematic area: Interior & Exhibit Design –>back www.unibz.it armin.blasbichler@unibz.it |
