Week 1: Taking Pictures: Architecture101 #MusicWithoutSound

Rythm of stars in space

Week 1: Taking Pictures: Architecture101 #TvWithoutSignal

I have no tv because I just use video projector and internet to see things if I need to look something. But I was able to find some tv without signal clips in youtube. Not so long to really meditate for 3 minutes. I just kept thinking how useless tv really is but how actually this noise could be art. Everyone can see different things in it. I see in this noise winter landscape like snowman flying over landscape.

framed nothing

Week 1: Taking Pictures: Architecture101 #ThingsWithNoName

What I really wanted to do today was to take some paint and go to find some sunny dry asphalt spot in Berlin where I could practice a little bit of my Jackson Pollock skills.

Instead what I did was make my baby to sleep and let papa babysit for a while. Then sneak out fast from the house realising all streets were wet from the rain and only dry asphalt spot was in the inner yard of my house. Today of all days happened to be the day when Hausvervaltung came to check all apartments water meters so playing out with my colours was not an option as they would have given me a warning or a fine. No harm in throwing some water thou.

So this is what I got. I actually see some meaning in this photo. I like to call these maple three seeds as fairys wings. So in my eyes this photo is like fairies who have fallen to the ground.

Here is my play result from spirograph :)

Week 1: Taking Pictures: Architecture101 #50000YearsAgo

50000 years ago, things had no name... Here, if you want, you have the link to the video on YouTube.

process picture of the same crumpled paper

Week 1: Taking Pictures: Architecture101 #RelativeSizeOfThings

This picture is taken by Canon camera and even if the quality is nice I will take all my final exercise pictures with my phone as the course uses instagram as its main forum to show the homework's.

This is a start of a great learning journey. I will document my process here and this blog allows me to show also the process of making my homeworks.

This architecture 101 course is organised by Iversity.org and you can find it here.

Part 1: From Nothingness to Place (Jan 5 to Feb 28, we will work in 2d) 

Architecture 101 (part 1: from nothingness to place)

To start our journey, we will deal with the absence of space and place.
Something that could be defined as “nothingness”.

As Ang Lee or Paul Valery would respectively say :
“The source of all the material comes from nothingness.”
“God made everything out of nothing, but the nothingness shows through.” 

In a different way, Ludwig Wittgenstein taught us that when things have no name, they don’t exist. Hence in order to understand things, we have to start with worlds in which things have no name. Pieces of music without sound. Televisions without signal.

We will go through the process of shaping meaning. Articulate and complex meanings, defining relationships between mind and bodies, bodies and places. Little by little, we will encounter places and see the world taking shape. 

All of this, using a “hands-on” system (you will by doing).

Course Structure

Week 1: taking pictures
Week 2: learning to sketch
Week 3: making collages
Week 4: observing the weather
Week 5: shaping diagrams
Week 6: drawing maps
Week 7: passing an exam
Week 8: taking a break

Learning Objectives

To see places like architects do.
To understand the principles upon which we convert a place into a state of mind.
We will explore nothingness, void and negative space.
We will learn to name things, we will learn how to invent place (as we wrote before, when things have no name, they cannot exist).

We will learn to stare, observe and see.
We will learn a significative amount of extremely interesting (and totally useless) things.

All of the above refers to the conceptual part of our course.
Then, since we love having our students making practical things, you will also learn lots of technical things using a number of interesting applications.

At the end, what do I make?

A booklet (with a given proportion, size, appearance) where you will collect all of your visual experiments. Each booklet devoted to a specific “place”. If one thousand people finish this part 1, we will have a fabulous collection of 1000 booklets.

eye to the details

process picture: seeing details around me like this little love bug <3

101/87 Purple fabric

thecostumersmanifesto

Here is my purple fabric. I woke up one day and realised I have purple curtains. I was gonna move out of the house and would not need these curtains anymore. I was so happy I didn't have to go buy the fabric.

Later I realised the fabric is quite transparent and my Burda model needs 2 different kinds of fabric. I found another fabric from RAW temple flea market just for 2 euro. That man was selling that week so many fabrics and sewing kits. Next week when I visited him again he had totally different kind of stuff and no sewing things. I asked what about the things he didn't sell and he said he donated them to some people. He says he has every week new "old" things . This is good example again of how in life persons and things and situations change all the time. I was very lucky to find my fabrics.

No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man.
- Heraclitus

101/86 Paper model!

This was not a easy task. First of all. I didn't realise that when downloading pattern from internet can be super easy then the pattern still has to be made afterwards by A4 papers. In my case my Burda pattern had 60 A4 pages to connect. Usually I have been proud to make my design101 task in 1 hour but this was really a big day project. When you connect the papers you need to be careful that the lines are matching.

Here is my final Burda pattern ready:

While trying to understand the instructions I realised with a help of a friend, Barbara that this Burda pattern gave me actually forms to 3 different dresses. In the end I needed just to use 4 peaces of it for my model: front peace, back peace, sleeve and pocket. My cat could happily start playing with the rest of the paper.

Next thing I needed to do the paper model. Only paper I had was newspaper. It took some time to unite that too to become a "fabric" and then I cut the forms and taped them together.

This process went quite fast and I got no picture after all of my paper model. It was also looking very bad. I kept thinking why I am doing this thing at all. I still learned some important things and I am glad I didn't give up.

1. how to cut the back part seams correctly. They were shown as 2 triangles in the pattern in the back part and first I cutted them as triangle holes. Then I realised you need to juts cut a one line in the middle that you sew straight. This really saved my fabric from a fatal error.
2. that I needed to cut the fabric with 2-3 margins so I would have enough space if I needed it later.