mischer traxler

The idea of a tree
This concept was inspired by a certain fascination for machines and nature.

A tree is a product of its specific time and place. It reacts and develops according to its surrounding and constantly records various environmental impacts in its growth process. Each single tree tells its own story of development.
The goal of 'the idea of a tree'- project was to bring the recording qualities of a tree and its dependence on natural cycles into products.

Therefore machines were developed which are recording and producing at the same time

nina tolstrup

I thought ella might like this it is run within the community, interesting concept behind the project.

Find

Here are some insiprational Images!
The lamp is specifically for Owen - thinking of your green house. I have only just found Gehry - amazing I really enjoy his work and it does remind me of Zarhar Hadid. I also think that the sofa by Pesce is full of wit and play! The doors are also just fun!

Some work I find interesting.
Im interested in ways of altering batch production methods to produce individual items. Providing the consumer with what they have is unique to them and special.
Here are some designer that I have been looking at

upcoming: Pictures Reframed a performance by Leif Ove Andsnes & Robin Rhode

Pictures Reframed - is a collaborative performance from pianist Leif Ove Andsnes and visual artist Rhobin Rhode which centers around Mussorgsky's piano suite Picutres at an Exhibition

Robin Rhode: is a performance artist who grew up in Johannesburg. He creates energetic narrative performances that evolve around his drawings he uses the street, and in his later work gallery walls as his canvas. The documentation is often in photographic storyboard sequences or animations, Rhode transform his flat drawings of everyday objects into three-dimensional ones through his playful physical interaction. The simplicity of the medium, body chalk and surface is refreshingly unfussy, and the work has a sense of humour and play while often referencing political issues.

Friday 4th December @ the Southbank Centre

1st performance 7:30pm, 2nd performance 9:30pm

(2nd is a more informal presentation of the performance, and a panel discussion between with Robin Rhode, Southbank Centre's Head of Contemporary Culture Gillian Moore and Southbank Centre's Chief Curator of the Hayward Gallery Stephanie Rosenthal)

I'm going to the 9:30 one if anyone want's to come along please do

there are limited concession prices at £4.50 otherwise the next cheapest bracket is £9

articles and findings related to Open Sailing

under water sports - randomly saw on ffffound.com

Online article "Buildings that eat carbon dioxide? Fish becteria that light the streets? Meet the architects rebuilding our future"

Hannah Devlin, October 8 2009, Living in the city, Times Online

"Dr Rachel Armstrong, an architectural researcher from University College London"...."Leave a fish rotting in a bowl of water for long enough and it will begin to glow. The light comes from bacteria in the fish. Vibrio phosphoreum, allows the fish to glow and flicker in the deep ocean. The flashlight fish carries the bacteria in pouches beneath its eyes, which it opens to show off the glimmering organisms or closes to hide them, depending on whether it wishes to lure in prey or evade predators."

"With her colleagues at the Bartlett School of Architecture, Armstrong is focusing on: technologies that are cheap and relatively simple." "One possibility is the use of bioluminescent bacteria, organisms that give off a blue-green glow, as low-energy urban lighting. In the US, urban lighting accounts for more than 8 per cent of the country’s total electricity consumption." This produces light automatically when a pigment contained in the bacteria called luciferin, from the Latin meaning light bringer, reacts with oxygen in air or water. At present, the light emitted is not strong enough to illuminate a street, but scientists believe that it could be engineered to do so. Another possibility is using bacteria to metabolise carbon dioxide through photosynthesis so that the bacterial coating would effectively eat up carbon dioxide by turning sunlight into energy."

"...according to Armstrong, scientists have already identified numerous common species that carry out these functions. She is now looking at the possibility of using cyanobacteria, also known as blue-green algae, to capture carbon dioxide."....."Armstrong views this challenge as a form of gardening. “Bacterial gardens don’t really exist and that’s what we need to create,” she says."

Scientist research into artificially speeding the process of limestone formation, atmospheric carbon dioxide is transformed in a solid carbonate form. "The carbon choking our planet could become a harmless decorative feature." which could be scraped of and reuse it as a building material. Armstrong envisages using this to create facades which "would look like Narnia under the White Witch."

Canadian architect Philip Beesley and Armstrong are presenting a joint exhibition about the technology at the UN climate change conference in Copenhagen in December.

more information at:

Racheal Armstrongs website

Bear Chair

I think this is amazing

However it does seem to have 6 paws