Archive for 2007

MEETING Platform8 Thursday, 10.30AM

…and all of us are going to see Hella at 11. Many greetings

Hannes

"ah that’s so nice"

a nice video

Happy New Year

OK, how’s this for a bit of 8y controversy to kick us off in the new year:

“When design privileges innovation, culture speeds along; when art drives forward relevant social commentary, culture flourishes. When one mixes the two, it is effectively the combination of salt and gasoline. The motor splutters to a deliberate and irreversible death.”

Hani Rashid writing in Domus.

Anyone up for a bit of automotive genocide?

Triumph Des Willens

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-9076835539195533187&q=triumph+des+willens

Our generation is obliged to learn from the past and to keep a sharp eye on any attempts to undermine democracy by propagating authoritarian ideologies. Special vigilance is necessary against all sorts of pretensions on “leadership” (by single nations, parties, econonomic associations etc.), against all attempts to undermine the separation of democratic powers between people, parliament, government and courts. “Checks and balances” between different groups in society and between the nations are fundamental – and the only means to prevent the concentration and the abuse of power. Switzerland’s special political system of “Direct Democracy“ with frequent referendums is one, but not the only instrument for doing so. Still more important than the mere existence of democratic instruments is their vigilant use by “ordinary citizens”.

Fusionism

Arts, science and the future of our profession.
http://www.warunek.com/index.html