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Dare’N’Do: Irritation (02/2021) Fiebertraum Von Simon Ruof Irritationsmomente sind Momente des Dazwischen. Sie befinden sich immer zwischen zwei gegensätzlichen Polen. Dort weilen sie so lange, bis eine Kategorie für das Wahrgenommene gefunden, eine Ordnung wiederhergestellt wurde; Oder bis ein Maß an Erschöpfung erreicht wurde, das keine weitere Auseinandersetzung mit dem Ereignis mehr erlaubt.  See full video: http://darendo.com/irritation-fiebertraum/ *** http://darendo.com/irritation/ Seminarkonzept + Leitung: @natalie_weinmann #darendo #seminar #design #architecture #industrialdesign #textiledesign #spacefor #psychology #neurology #Wahrnehmung #phenomena #ad-hoc-confrontation #cross-disciplinary #interdisciplinary #transdisciplinary #irritation #experimental #unbiased #open-ended #unbiased #designprocess #research #experimentellesEntwerfen #reflexion #study #university #natalieweinmann @abk_id @abk_stuttgart @abk_arch @abk_inkubator (hier: Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart) https://www.instagram.com/p/CMfKm81iJ1c/?igshid=13eqflnta2gje

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Dare’N’Do: Irritation (02/2021) vor-/nachher Von Lilly Wellner Erwartungshaltungen existieren, Erwartungshaltungen werden nicht erfüllt, Erwartungshaltungen werden angepasst, Erwartungshaltungen existieren- 
 Irritationen haben immer einen Kontext, immer ein vorher und nachher. Die Abfolge von Davor-Irritation-Danach ist ein iterativer Prozess. Das Danach wird zum Davor. Das Davor wird zu einem anderen Danach. Das andere Danach wird zu einem anderen Davor. Durch diesen zyklischen Ablauf verändert sich der Blick auf das Geschehene und das Zukünftige. Die Verbindung von vorher und nachher ist die Irritation. Sie ist nie gleich. Im Video wird die Irritation ausgeklammert. Der Fokus liegt auf dem Wandel der Erwartungshaltung durch den zeitlichen Ablauf. See full video: http://darendo.com/irritation-vorhernachher/ *** http://darendo.com/irritation/ Seminarkonzept + Leitung: @natalie_weinmann 
(Chair for Design Foundations and experimental Design) #darendo #seminar #design #architecture #industrialdesign #textiledesign #spacefor #psychology #neurology #Wahrnehmung #phenomena #ad-hoc-confrontation #cross-disciplinary #interdisciplinary #transdisciplinary #irritation #experimental #unbiased #open-ended #designprocess #research #selfreflexion #study #university #architecturedesign #designinspiration #natalieweinmann @abk_id @abk_stuttgart @abk_architektur @abk_inkubator (hier: Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart) https://www.instagram.com/p/CMZdDRsi7yt/?igshid=1l722fkcai591

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LASST UNS IRRITIEREN! 
Im kommenden Semester wird es bei Dare’n’Do um die Irritation und neurologische Vorgänge in unserem Gehirn gehen. Warum sind wir irritiert? Was lässt uns irritieren? Was bedeutet überhaupt Irritation? Welche Rolle spielt es im Gestaltungsprozess? Und wie gehen wir damit um? Fragen und Anmeldung: [email protected] #neurowissenschaften #darendo #irritation #gestaltung #design #architektur #selbstreflektion #irritationsräume #ergebnisoffen #experimentell #wagenundtun @natalie_weinmann @abkstuttgart @arch_inkubator @arch_abkstuttgart (hier: Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart) https://www.instagram.com/p/CGQUDGECuaP/?igshid=mx9olxrvmu12

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The idea that I kept from the last session is that the atmospheric situations that we can create shape the way we perceive everything. I wanted to experiment with my perception of a daily situation. I took a picture of my window view, but before doing it I used different "lenses" to experience different colors on the same view because I wanted to manipulate my own emotions. For creating this "lenses"  I used different objects from my room (also common stuff I always use). Then I add a quick atmospheric musical composition that I created based on the moods resulting from this "lenses" experience. You can also hear the daily sounds and noises from my block.

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Session 5: The creative power of Sci-Fi

Session 5: The creative power of Sci-Fi 

Date: 22.06.20 

Guest: Estevan Mykhail Guzman 

Estevan Mykhail Guzman is a 3D animator with a passion for astronomy and Sci-Fi. He currently works at the Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles, California exploring scientific communication through film and illustrations. He finds influence in science and space travel for his works as a “space artist” with a goal to inspire scientists and artists alike. In Session 5 Estevan gave an insight on how to discover future scenarios with a sensual and emotional approach through installation, visual and acoustic features. 

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I was really surprised how wide and important the field of graphical science-fiction thinking is and how close the relationship between art and science is. After this session, with lots of graphical input, I went and searched for more references, where graphic meets science in space. At the End I found a moon-landing map, which showed all the apollo missions since 1969 and each one had its own symbol. Until today they speak the same language and are representative for a dream and a vision. As a last Fast-Transfer-Project, I created a symbol for our voyage we had. According to the importance of the thinking we did and will do, the relationship of art and science.

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A matter of perspective

During the last session we talked a lot about Sci-fi, that was concentrated on space. The starting point of the exploration of space was during the Cold War, so it is fundamentally connected with the idea of growth and growing faster than the other one. Since the landing on the moon we are imagining the world as the blue marble, something abstract, something distant, although we all live on it. This is the perspective we all grew up with and I think it is the wrong perspective, because it focuses on the earth as this untouchable thing, not as a fragile system. It is neither a human perspective, nor a perspective of nature (nature defined as plants, animals etc. on earth). Even in the drawings we saw during the session the subject „perspective“ was very important, often it tried to show the human perspective on another planet, which is a technique to feel connected to the situation. This being my thinking for the fast transfer, I tried out what perspective can do to us, how it changes the way of thinking about something: is it distant, far away, as the blue marble? So basically something I have nothing to do with. Am I just the objective observer, or am I in the middle of it, being subjective? During the process, changing the lens length of the camera view had an interesting effect. In the beginning, things started to look bigger, more stuff was visible, in the end it turned to be some abstract almost 2-dimensional drawing, you can not really imagine what it actually is. So changing the perspective in such an extreme way can be very irritating in the beginning, but sometimes it’s necessary.

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Non-Hierarchy of Needs

One of Marcels main points was, that the human should be the very center of the design process. He proposed to always have a look at the human needs and decide according to them. In this context he talked about Maslow’s theory of human needs. I always wandered, why this is shown as an hierarchy in a pyramid, I thought this might not be the right visualization. Are human needs always the same? Can you just say, that food is a higher need than safety? Do we survive without love? So I tried to find a new visualization, which I thought was important, in order to define things new, and therefore think in a different way. Later on I asked myself, how does this new hierarchy or non-hierarchy influence our design process. The dependence of the situation, that forms our needs, needs a design, that is flexible enough to adapt to this and even think of situations that you could not think of. I decided to show the pictures of my notebook in a video, because I think you can follow the way of thinking better this way, than just reading it.

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I thought about the aspect of communication and how it is a deep part of life itself. Even the tiniest things, like cells, communicate with each other. Communication is all about giving information, cells continually exchange their information about e.g. position, size and chemical substances. I tried to put this (ex)change of information in an algorithm where points react due to communication with other points.

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In the session we tried out how we would adapt to new technology, that we all get to know during COVID-19. This phenomenon of Adaption was interesting to me. I remembered a video I once saw, where they showed, that shadows adapt to each other, when the objects creating the shadow are coming closer together. They basically smoothly connect with each other, but also create something that does not „really“ exist. So I tried this out, to find out more about this. I tried different objects, long and skinny ones, transparent ones and more rounded objects. They all behaved very different, some didn’t work at all. The Spoon worked best, because of it’s round shape. I was surprised about the bubble that is created in the shadow, when the long sides were coming closer together. This never worked with the other objects.

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How would our daily lives could look like in the Outer Space? How would going to the supermarket be like? Or a date? These collages are not supposed to approach what it would really be like, but they  to raise questions and trigger our imagination. 

For the collage of the date I used a Saturn illustration by Chesley Bonestell.

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I wish for everybody to be more aware of their actions, of the dimension they have and of the way they reflect on our sorroundings. I started wondering what kind of scenario could capture this idea and how it would look like.

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Life is the result of a series of random events and combinations. I wanted to experiment with the same process of randomly doing things and see how the result could look like.

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What is the value of things when it doesn't come to money and how can we define it? I tried to come up with some sort of a system that could allow people to define the value of things and that had a visual result. For this reason I asked several people to chose on two or three things that they owned and were valuable to them, so it could have been knowledge, an ability or an object and then then I asked them to choose on certain characteristics that made the thing valuable. According to the number of characteristics they would have to divide the circle into the same amount of spaces and place dots, the further away from the center the most valuable the thing is and the more dots in the circle, the more features it has. These are the figures that came out of the experiment.

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Anthropocentrism or adaptability to the environment. 

In this experiment, I wanted to confirm my intuitive thoughts about what's more important for humanity when it comes to a bigger scale. I was questioning myself if the human is always this very center of any design process... but I didn't want to get my perspective from my human scale point of view. What I did: I opened google earth, rotate the globe and started from a random location in the south of Europe, then I just followed the traces, streets, avenues, pathways created by humans or by nature, intuitively I chose the tracks to follow and after 30 min straight of no thinking just following I get to some random location in Ukraine. My result: I confirm my initial assumption, when it comes to a bigger scale is everything about adaptability to the surroundings, the human does not have to be the very center of every single design process.

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Session 4: The narrative power of Sci-Fi

Session 4: The narrative power of Sci-Fi

Date: 08.06.20 

Guest: Marcel Mayr 

Marcel Mayr studied technical cybernetics and computing and information science in Germany and the UK. He works part-time as a technology consultant, he has founded tech and fashion companies and is active in political/cultural/artistic projects. When digging deep into science, research and humanistic/technophilosophical debates, he’s mostly engaged in topics which pinpoint the growing gap between technological advancements, dualistic conservatism and the unreasonable human soul. He was the founder of the transhuman party in Germany and is a critical writer, speaker and artist addressing human emotions and values in times of artificial intelligence, nano-neuro-bio-psychology, technoprogressive social societies and the digital quake. If anything, he is a fighter for freedom, authenticity, humanism and empathy. He has lived in Italy, Switzerland and the UK and has lately moved from Stuttgart to Berlin, Germany, to launch a philosophical fashion label and working as an artist/writer.

In this session, the key conceptual question that underlies all else was about direction. Whether in politics, design, philosophy, or technological innovation, the participants tried to estimate a current point of view and the direction we are heading towards depending on personal wishes for the future: What world do I want to live in? Can I change the future? Can I change the past? Do humans have any value and how many should exist for how long? Who am I anyway? How should I live? Who is to decide? Do I love, hate, fear…? Why? What, if anything would I change in the world, with people, with me? What role do narratives play in the fiction?