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The Alter-Diego + Diego had a brainstorming session as a script for now,that will might become a video!

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Siegfried statement

People are stuck in an idealization of their life, where the highlights are getting occasional. But in fact they are locked in a certain monotony.

The zombies, the man and business or the so called ordinary men have a proper daily/weekly/yearly routine, fixed, meticulously calculated and inviolable.

But they are blind, not only them, we are all blindfolded toward the meaningless aspects of our lives.

They are the way they are because this is the only way we are perceiving it, and it’s the only recognition we want to give it.

We are polluting our spirits by the machines, that corrupt us to need and to desire always more.

We are focusing on the future, wasting the past and the present time.

We are being stuck in a restricted mindset, that leads us to the road of boredom.

We are digging everyday a bigger hole of emptiness.

We are looking and seeking for an ideal that doesn’t exist anymore.

Our daily life can only be transformed by itself, the potential is there, ready to be used.

We have to open up to new a perspective.

We are the masters of our own destiny, and we just need to act on our lives to change it.

By finding a way to surprise ourselves in our daily life, just by a simple realization, an action would engender a drastic change to educate and allow us to be aware.

We need to educate ourselves, to open up to our surroundings, observe our daily life. The slightest change, alteration, event can produce a big change. By forcing ourselves to be more aware and conscious we will drastically improve and have a more enjoyable life.

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Meyer for a brief moment to bring more data

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The main struggle is to create something unexpected, because as soon as it is done, by repeating it, it will instantly become part of the daily life

Siegfried reacting to Meyers research

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Siegfried will be answering your questions today for the meeting!

sorry

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Georges Perec :

“Ce qui se passe chaque jours et qui revient chaque jours, le banal, le quotidien, l’evident, le commun, l’infra ordinaire, le bruit de fond, l’habituel, comment en rendre compte, comment l’interroger?”

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Meyers last day ( for now )

Is the everyday life the modern slavery?

the banality is renewing the everyday and is repeating itself.

It is too often the mark of life without adventure, it is a constraint but in the meantime an emancipation.

The everyday life is a new term, in fact in the middle ages the private life didn’t exist, everything was public and organized in small communities. Followed by dutch paintings, smaller spaces and private rooms allowed the creation of a private and daily life in the seventieth century. It is the combination of acts that we repeat everyday.But it has always existed, because humans created movements and tools to satisfy our needs. However at the end of the ninetieth century, the term of daily life evolved in the common language.

In fact the actions that we repeat everyday are essential to understand who we are. But at that time many people were convinced that we needed to escape from it, living in a constant lie without a future.

We are able to take advantage of this daily life, because we have the ability to talk about it, in the book « life: the notice » of Georges Perec , he was creating and controlling with his mind these aspects. He thought that daily life is so obvious that we are blind to it in front of us, that we don’t look at it. That these small incidents/ accidents are the ones that make it richer.

The biggest fear toward it, is that we are actually afraid that nothing will happen.  the anti-event is the ideal definition of daily life. Our days are full of small events, but we are not able to take advantage of them. They slowly are alternating the daily life, to disrupt the repetition of our habits.

Daily life can also be perceived as a bigger force, and it is time. It controls our physiology such as hunger and sleep , days and nights and the seasons. We are animals, and it is the biggest influence about them. Modernism wants to free us from it, by replacing the physiological time to cover our basic need into intellectual time. We are surrounded by apparatuses to free our body. The spirit is now, colonized by many devices. And we use leisure to escape the tyranny of the machines. But anything can become part of daily life, even the celebration. In Italy, for the carnival where the poor became rich and the rich the poor, by it’s circular repetition in time it is daily-lifisated. Our rituals are also being a part of these, birth and death are creating an extra aspect in daily life. They are always there at an unexpected time, and it is never what we believe it would be.

By closing our minds from this routine, we are forgetting the game that we can play with, the derision and the opportunities it can create. By escaping the definition of existence and by going further we can re-think with plasticity ( using creative alternative,twist it, unexpected) . All the practical resources are in front of us, we can only have a revolution about daily life once we are using it. We don’t have to find anything else, it can only exist on itself and by itself. Complex, endless and mobile, the endless energy can be used by it’s infinite incident which makes it so intense and full of surprises. Omnipresent, an alternative is possible  by opening our receptivity on the alterity.

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Some of the picture of the result of 1m30 solution done by Larry!

My camera is damage, and this is why there is dark dots on the surface! 

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Meyer as a new start

I woke up at 7am this morning, first shower then breakfast to start my new books : « the invention of daily life »  and « la mise en scene du quotidien » , in which the autors are investigating how human from any social context can deal and accept it.  

The first sentence that completely stroked me «  dedicated to the ordinary man.Commun hero. Disseminated character. Outnumbered walker. »

And this quote reveals some aspect of the previous research that has been in the dark. We do not encounter, take in consideration and to often forget the « ordinary man » as Michel de Certeau call him. Bringing another dimension that we do not think about, the universality. I want to bring the common man to become the narrator. However, Michel de Certeau is focusing on the language, but I strongly believe that his theories and observation can be translated into non-verbal, ontological and phenomenologic aspects. Due to the fact that humans are instantly translating their experiences and can only acknowledge a fact by recognizing it.

We are in an era of functionalist austerity, where the meaning is weaker than the effectiveness.

And I believe that they are a thousand way to play and outplay the game of daily life, we have a tendency to « deal with it »

But there is an art to fight, a pleasure to outrule, where we have to cut and then to turn around to isolate the problem.

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1m30 to solve a daily life issue

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Larry’s day

I locked myself in the meeting room for around 4 hours straight, I videotaped around an hour of it. The procedure is simple, first picking up a paper and then I have 1minute 30 second to solve it. 

Sometimes it is imaginative, sometimes boring, sometimes funny and too often absurd. 

Tomorrow, Larry will bind all the drawing cards/solution into a book. That will be passed on thursday to Meyer to analyse, categorize all the results. 

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Daily life issue resolved by Larry

- When you try to open your clementine in your mouth

- When your socks get stuck in your trouser

- When there is a hole in your sock and your toes stick out

- When your hair is static

- When your nice new shoes hurt your feet

- When your bike light has no more battery

- When there are no spots to park your bike

- When your nail polish chips off

- When you have to take two showers a day

- When you have to do the dishes

- When the internet doesn’t work

- When you have to pay the bills

- When you miss your train

- When you have to wait for people

- When you have to print on the second floor

- When your wear belts

- When your pen doesn’t work

- When food or drinks spill in your bag

- When your video isn’t loading

- When your gloves are inside out

- When there’s mess

- When there are no plugs available

- When you have to sit on stuff

- When you’re cold

- When you have a runny nose

- When you’re on your period but don’t have tampon

- When there’s no more dish washing soap

- When the tap water is boiling

- When there are no hangover breakfast

- When you can smell your own body odors

- When you can’t find something

- When you have to lock all the doors

- When you forget your gloves

- When you drop something but are too lazy to pick it up

- When it rains and you’re wearing make up

- When people don’t answer

- When you’re food shopping

- When there’s no more olive oil

- When the vending machine doesn’t work

- When you get the wrong item in the vending machine

- When you forget someone’s name

- When there’s not enough room to hang up your washing machine

- When you have chapped lips and it hurts to lick them

- When you have to get up  

- When a glass is too thin

- When you can’t find a comfortable position  

- When there’s hair on your hairbrush

- When you have cold feet

- When your sleeve gets stuck on the door handle

- When your tights fall down

- When you have to open banana

- When there is dirt under your nails

- When a rubber band breaks

- When you break the egg shell

- When you have to use cellophane / aluminium

- When you have to deal with the metal grid on top of the stove

- When you have a very small soap that breaks in half

- When you have a scratchy label

- When you have creased clothes

- When people walk on the cycle lane

- When you hear motorcycle noise

- When you get a funny bone

- When you hurt your toes

- When you get chewing gum in your hair

- When you have too many bags

- When your phone rings but you can’t find it

- When pasta spills on the side

- When you headphones are tangled

- When the hoover’s cable is too short

- When it’s cold outside in the morning

- When you recognize people in the street

- When you don’t know whether to say hello or not

- When you have to put a thread through a needle

- When you have to tie a knot

- When your foot slips on your pedal

- When it rains and you’re wearing glasses

- When your saddle is wet

- When there are too many seeds in your clementine

- When it’s easy to poo

- When you oversleep

- When you snooze too many times

- When you take time to go sleep

- When people fall asleep right away

- When you get an Automatic email response

- When you hear other people having sex

- When you are showering and someone turns on the tap

- When you poo in public toilets and someone goes in after you

- When you forget your card in other trousers

- When you forget your wallet

- When you complain in a store about the price, but make the purchase anyway

- When you’re bare foot and the floor is dirty

- When there is glue at the end of a toilet paper roll

- When the kitchen towel is wet

- When you can’t open your window because there are things in front

- When you need to use your phone, but you’re wearing gloves

- When you have things stuck in your shoes

- When you hang up your washing after a few days and it smells bad

- When the croutons get soggy

- When you don’t know which on is the salt and which one is the sugar

- When you wake up and someone finished the coffee

- When there’s food at the bottom of the sink

- When there is no more toilet paper

- When people drag their feet

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You can follow Larry’s thought on twitter !!!  https://twitter.com/LarryFaivre

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Larry finally doin’ somethin’

With the research I have on daily life, I want to create an alternative to resolve this issues within limitations of time and of the medium.

I’m going to ask someone to type all the research, print it, and cut it into individual pieces. They will be place in a hat.

On tuesday the 10th, I’ll be in the meeting room number 3 from 2pm till 5pm.

I’ll pick up a daily life issue, on a card of 15x15 cm, I’ll then draw a solution, in 1minute of the problem. And then, repeat the action over and over, until they all have a solution.

The experience will be videotaped and posted on youtube.

Afterward, I’ll bind them and give them to Meyer that will pursue this pre-project.

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Here are the following information of the future use of the alter-diego :

Larry is reacting on various topics, that will often lead to « this shouldn’t be like this, it should happen like this », he can be useful to find different topics, gather general information, have an overview of the topic obtained by investigating people and by asking question. The opinionated problem to resolve will appear as a starting point but not as a concrete direction, because it will be in fact twisted by the others.

Meyer will bring data, philosophy and culture references, with a lot of reading and analysis. He will be able to determine a concrete direction but will get stuck in the overall of data. At the meantime, he will play with the concept, confront it to another idea and make it richer and richer. By gathering a lot of materials it will give the others input and materials to play with.

Siegfried will play with this data bring humour and a ground base/ realistic level to it. He will layer to bring structure and depth to it. With pragmatism he  will play with the concept, twist it over and over to complete a plan and a procedure to it, to prepare the final application and the future decisions.

Claudio will find an application, a final shape and will experiment with materials, colors with his intuition to determine what it will look like. Synthesize the concept into a understandable form that fully represent the work and the process. To finally be able to realize into a finish and done project .

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This is called the car model, and I based the development of my Alter-Diegos with it . By playing and hacking it, I’m able to transform certain aspect of my personality into concrete individuals.

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New Direction ;

I have chosen to focus on four alter egos instead of five because of the symmetry, it is easier for me to elaborate on each one of them and build them with more care. As you can observe on the diagram they have differences on their opposite side but also have similarities with their neighbour.

With their characteristic, I’m now able to use them in a design process. What is going to happen, is that I will do one project with all the alter-diegos. They will each be used for the different phases of the design process. Each night, as Diego, I will determine which one of them I will send the next day with an update of the current process. So I want to be able to determine and identify what would be the best for the next day to complete the more of the work.