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

Voyage into my room 101/43

I will try to update all of my design101 exercises here before the #blaueblumen exhibition that is next Friday 25.4 and Saturday 26.4 at Designtransfer in Berlin. My work will be also showed there and I am very happy about that.

This week this question about the space is very actual in my life. I have currently two houses and while we have been living since January in a bigger house we got it after all only for 4 months. Everyone wants to live in a big house so its much more difficult to get one nice one for a longer term. I have been happy about the balcony. Big house cost more and in the end I have noticed how I had used to live in a small place and now changing a room feels strange. Big house is full of corridors, between spaces and in my case unfunctional kitchen. So I already miss my little house. Luckily we still kept it as it was so cheap. Its compact and nice and all my furnitures are there still in their old places. We got the big house already furnished. Many antique furnitures.

So I ll have to give the keys back 26.4. Its gonna be very busy week while preparing the exhibition (still have not seen that space and will bring my project there on Monday) and moving my stuff to the little house. I have done most of these exercises of this "Voyage into my room" but had not published them. Here is something from the Monday letter:

Xaver de Maistre wrote “A Journey Around My Room” while
spending 42 days locked up in house arrest. 

A delightful little book on one’s own experience of being 

(design101 strongly suggested to read this one, in no more than two hours... + lots of online
versions of it for free).

This book looks very interesting, I had chance to read some of it already.

This voyage into my room makes me think also about last week when I had chance to visit Iweiwei exhibition at Martin-Gropius-Bau in Berlin. There was exhibited a room where I weiwei was kept in house arrest for 81 days. It was really horrible place. 

When I think about my room, the one I am gonna live again soon and will also visit today its a creative place. Not anything negative but full of joy and memories.

Floor:

There is black wooden floors with marks and traces of paint as once there was full carpet and when it was taken off it left some colourful marks still to be seen among the black colour.

Height:

The room is high and there is lots of space in vertical direction.

Bed:
There is wooden frames for 2 and on the top I have 2 layers of mattress so the bed is very comfortable. The final layer is double mattress and this was a big thing for us when we got "the mattress". Before that I was always complaining how I could not sleep well together with my boyfriend. Now its perfect.

My working desk:
Its a little corner near window where I have my desk and next to it a shelf where I can keep my design books. There is lavender growing on the windowsill and sometimes I ll open the window and smell the flowers.

There is so much to tell about my room maybe I ll continue to show things in my "Voyage into my room" exercises . Pictures tells more than words.

#design101/020 My diary 16.11 Sketchbook

Yesterday I got finally my long time waited Mac Book Pro. This makes me so happy!!! Here is the happy moment when I open the package. I worked so hard to get it and partly got it too as a christmas gift:)

There is so much changes happening. Wind of Change could be this moments soundtrack.


The world is closing in
Did you ever think
That we could be so close, like brothers
The future's in the air
I can feel it everywhere
Blowing with the wind of change

Take me to the magic of the moment
On a glory night
Where the children of tomorrow dream away
In the wind of change

We have also moved to a new house. There is even a tv in new home. I am looking forward to see all those german tv films where I played as extra last year.

I can finally speed up posting with my design101 tasks. The platform this MOOC is using was not supporting my old Mac. It made me so sad to see even my answers to the weekly quiz were never gathering any points because the system didn't fully recognise my answers. The design 101 is going to Finnish by end of January and I will do my best that all my works will get finally to the platform.

Here are still some images from my sketch book.

It´s Alive Extra material #design101 Growing process-12.12 Eat Me Cake

My plants grow so much per day. Yesterday morning things looked still like this when the first green grass of the barley was pushing out of the cupcake.

11.12.2013

12.12.2013

And today things are really growing fast. The idea behind the cupcake is that when the barley is ready I can let my cat eat the grass.

If the cake is still in condition to grow more after that cat experience , then I let it grow more. Otherwise I will make another cupcake.

carrot flower and little rabbit

Romulus is laying on the heater

When I went out of the house this black bird was waiting on my bike. I thought about Black Jack. He used to sit on bikes if they were inside the house.

It´s Alive #design101/ 042 Inspirational: 3 designers and The Little Prince

Here still some pics from my garden life.
Time goes on. Actually I decided to move the clock whenever I give water to the plants so I know the next time when I gave water last time/date. The cupcake cat grass seem to need more water than the other plants. Of course my avocado is touching the water all the time.

Romulus

Time to get to know Antonio Scarponi and Elioo.

..and japanese designer junya ishigami who is a bit like The Little Prince.

 

quotes from The Little Prince

Then one more very important italian designer: Enzo Mari. Look the video too of him and Artek! 

It´s Alive #design101 / 041 Testing and Soundchecking

I made a day/month clock from Alice in the wonderland!

 I looked my project and realised that it was a bit full of everything. Plants needed more space.

Star Anice was in my first seed picture as a star in the universe and so it was hard to let it go. Its now in its sealed plastic bag on the window plate orbiting in another dimension than my Wonderland Wintergarden. If I will find a little separate lantern for it I could have it there. But let´s see first if Star Anice will come out from the seeds.

flexible air system

I decided speed up the growing process and so I covered the air holes of the lantern with a plastic bag. I am so happy with my multitasking lantern. Its so great that you can open it from the top so if the plants would grow high, I could keep the lantern open from the top.

And I even got some music to grow my plants!

It´s Alive #design101 / 040 Wonderland Wintergarden

I had all tools ready but there was still something that needed to be added in the process.

I add some peace of eggs to the bottom and also some carton paper.

Some stones

the good thing about teapot is that you don´t need to drill any holes to the bottom. If the ground would get too wet and water would stand still I could let the water drop from my teapot like pouring tea from it while watering the plants.

add charcoil to keep the soil fresh and stop the mold

water to the ground

I learned from Martha Stewart that you can wet the ground already with little bit of water before adding it to the pots.

plastic

I add some plastic bag solution for my Star Anis. Its quite exotic plant so I thought it might not manage in a teapot with the other more simple plants.

My garden was getting in place. I put Star Anice separately in a tealight and in a plastic bag.

I add some Wonderland characters as well and name tags.