design 52/101 Fluxus

 I have no boxes left. All went to moving my stuff. But I have collected these things from the week I spent with my best friends in Berlin. This is dedicated for you Neon and Bellarebel.

Barbara gave me this barbie and ken while visiting me in Berlin.

design101/53 - Mirror day

Something to remember: the best inspiration for your design, always comes from other places.

“While in Mexico, Robert Smithson created the Yucatan Mirror Displacements by installing 12-inch-square mirrors on dispersed sites. The resulting series of nine color photographs was published in Artforum to accompany Smithson’s essay “Incidents of Mirror-Travel in the Yucatan.” The mirrors reflected and refracted the surrounding environments, displacing the solidity of the landscape and shattering its forms. Part Earthwork and part image, the displacements contemplate temporality; while the mirror records the passage of time, its photograph suspends time.”



I am making these exercises as time will allow me. So this exercise was made while walking around my neighbourhood in Friedrichshain in east Berlin and then while going by S-bahn to the west part of Berlin. My battery of camera failed in some point so I could not get more photos but it was still a nice experience.

design101/50 Zooming out and my city BERLIN

When this design101 week happened I travelled for the christmas to Kuopio. It was a busy week and I had no time or tools to do these exercise then. I was on my christmas holiday for 10 days and because of it had a huge gap in my exercises that was hard to catch up later. As you will see I will publish this weeks simultaneously my exercises from different topics. For example I am very happy I managed to do the dressing up weeks purple dress and I have to just document still all Voyage into my room exercises that I´ve done.

The program for a week called Zoom out was following:

Today, you will complete the quiz and prepare yourself for the
week. Here’s what we’ll be doing:

on Tuesday: you will map your city

on Wednesday: you will create a box with (inside) objects
taken from your city

on Thursday: you will play with mirrors (and your city)

on Friday: you will make a pinhole camera and take and develop
(a real picture) with it

n Saturday: you will relax and sketch things up

on Sunday: you will watch some nice things we are preparing
for you

Picture from my city part Friedrichshain