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Stefano Mirtis

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Utrecht School of the Arts, HKU

In the last weeks I've been around presenting what

we are doing with Abadir Catania, Whoami, etc.etc.etc.

First I went to Bruxelles at EU, then last week at

Iversity in Berlin. Now in Utrecht.

Here the link to the pdf where you can see where

we are at (with our thinking, prototypes, projects

and experiments).

http://www.whoami.it/.../Design_schools_and_mythopoetics

Thanks to all for your (priceless) support

Keep tuned for more!

Design, Schools &

lots of Mythopoetics
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European League of Institutes of the Arts

WHOAMI AT ELIA

Today,Lucia Giulianoand Stefano Mirti are at the

ELIA Teachers' Academy in Utrecht to hold a

workshop on "learning from (with) social media".

View their pdf presentation about "design, schools

and lots of mythopoetics" here: http://www.

whoami.it/wordpress/wp-

content/uploads/2013//Design_schools_and_myth

opoetics_low.pdf

Find more about Teacher's Academy here: http:

//www.elia-artschools.org/activities/teachers-

academy
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London, United Kingdom

Life is short. Play more.

Cor Noltee opened his lecture with a great oldie:"Life is shor, play more", an Xbox commercial from

2002,

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNccPX03XaY

Don't have a tv, don't play Xbox, hence I never

seen it before.

Apart from that, it was a booum way to start a

lecture

More about the commercial at: http:

//theinspirationroom.com/daily/2005/xbox-

champagne/
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Utrecht, Netherlands

Cor Noltee and His

"Design Thinking by Doing"

In this Utrecht's conference on new forms of

education (organized by Elia), one of the most

interesting people I met was mr. Cor Noltee.

He has a lot of nice ideas, did a great presentation

and runs a very nice blog on design (unfortunately

in Dutch only):

http://zenoemenhetdesignthinking.wordpress.

com/.../cor.../

Here the link to his facebook page (in English):

http://www.facebook.com/cor.noltee

Looking forward to meet him again...
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For a Good Story...

Every time I go to a lecture, to a conference or

something, there is always a moment (or a person

or a phrase) that gives meaning to my trip.

Here in Utrecht, this person has been JukkaHeinanen (a playwrighter from Finland).

He said this very true thing:

For a good story you need three things: somemind, some heart and some balls.

Nowadays students, they have very big minds, very

little hearts and no balls at all.

---

That's it.

Wish you were here + more will follow...
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Schroder House

Once in Utrecht, we went to honor Gerrit Rietveld

and ms Schroder. A nice way to spend some hours

in a special world

More images at: http://www.facebook.

com/media/set/...
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Seattle, WA, United States

Poppy: Turn Your

iPhone into a 3D Camera

From their website:

Poppy lets you capture and share the world the

way you really experience it: in three dimensions.Have you ever wished you could record a moment,

and share it so someone else could feel like they

were there, too? Well, now you can.

Poppy is the first device in the world that turns aniPhone into a 3D camera capable of capturing,

viewing and sharing full-motion, full-color video

and stills in 3D.

Do you want one? SupportEthan Lowry& JoeHeitzeberg via Kickstarter: http://www.

kickstarter.com/.../poppy-turn-your-iphone...
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Zig Zag goes tubolar...

The Schroder House was ok. But his chairs, they

are fantastic.

Here above the tubolar version of the Zig Zagchair. By the way, it was 1932

Some more of Gerrit Rietveld's chair at: http:

//www.facebook.com/media/set/

Some more of his chairs: http://mondo-blogo.

blogspot.it/.../24-gerrit-rietveld

Some more fantastic chairs: http://chairpedia.

com/intro/the-modern-chair.aspx
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Truus Schrder-Schrder

What a girl, what a mind, what a love!

https://en.wikipedia.org/.../Truus_Schr%C3%

B6der-Schr%C3

All in all, I have to say I like ms Truus much more

than mr Gerrit.

They designed the house together. Then she lived

in the house she designed with the man of her life.While he kept the rest of his life designing many

other (not so convincing) stuff

But this we know: woman are alwayssmarter than

men...
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Design Museum

United Micro Kingdoms:

A Design Fiction

In the meanwhile, in London

London-based designers Anthony Dunne and Fiona

Raby have been speculating on the consequencesof technological advance since the early 1990s. In

their role as designers, writers and educators at

the Royal College of Art, the duo have been

pioneers of critical design, creating objects and

imagining scenarios that make us think twiceabout the future of todays technologies.

Their latest vision is currently on view in "United

Micro Kingdoms (UmK): A Design Fiction" at

Londons Design Museum. Located in a small roomon the Museums top floor, the exhibition depicts

an unspecified future in which England has been

divided into four micro kingdoms: Digitarian;

Commune-nuclearist; Anarcho-evolutionist; and

Bioliberal. With their own political ethos,economic system and way of life, the kingdoms

have been conceived as glimpses into potential

futures for our own society that allow us to debate

their desirability.
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Amsterdam, Netherlands

Febo: De Lekkerste!

I like Dutch cuisine pretty well. Out of their

various tasteful things, the one I like the most is

the Febo system.

FEBO is a chain of Dutch walk-up fast food

restaurants of the automatiek type. Founded in

1941 in Amsterdam, FEBO is most notable for this

automatic format: a counter is available for

purchasing French fries, beverages, and

Keep reading this very interesting article at: http:

//www.domusweb.it/.../united_micro

Image above: "United Micro Kingdoms (UmK): A

Design Fiction", installation view at the London

Design Museum.

Thanks to Rachaporn Choochueyfor the link!
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hamburgers. Other FEBO snacks can be bought

from the automats. The primary automat-vended

items are krokets, frikandellen, hamburgers,

Kaassouffls and similar items.

The FEBO motto De Lekkerste (Dutch) is translated

as "The Tastiest".

According to the company website, FEBO has

almost 60 shops all over the Netherlands, with 54

being franchises. There are 22 shops in Amsterdam

alone.

Originally a bakery named "Maison FEBO" after

Ferdinand Bolstraat in Amsterdam, founded by

Johan de Borst (1919-2008), the name was later

shortened to just "FEBO".

Here the link to their website: http://www.

febodelekkerste.nl/eng/


Then, #boop...

Then, this curious fact happened. I was with
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Remo Ricchettiand Lucia Giuliano, when a little

by little I went into my mind. Then, I noticed that

I was completely into my mind and I wasn't able to

get out.

Very curious feeling. Also, fairly spooky. I was into

my mind and I wasn't able to come up anymore

Normally you smoke some and you perceive the

world around you quite (o very much) different.

This time, I was perceiving myself quite different.

The innermost part of my mind. Quite a journey,

indeed

More at: http://en.wikipedia.

org/wiki/Hallucination


August Natterer's Visions

Having to explain, not so easy. In the field of

visual arts, August Natterer is the one who came

the closest
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_Natterer

http://www.rawvision.com/articles/august-

natterer

Veldhoven, Netherlands

MVRDV's Pyjama Garden

Working hard on our greenhouses for BiodiversityPark, we couldn't skip this curious pavillion made

by MVRDV some years ago

Interesting concept, quite a lousy space. Typical

of MVRDV, indeed


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(Aldo) Van Eyck's Finest

The day spent in Van Eyck's church in Den Haag it

was an impossible to describe experience.

Total architecture. Mesmerizing.

Wish you were here


com/media/set/

---

Space has no room, time not a moment for us.

We are excluded.

In order to be included to help our homecoming

we must be gathered into their meaning (we arethe subject as well as the object of architecture).

Whatever space and time mean, place and

occasion mean more.
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Eindhoven, Netherlands

Volkswagen Karmann Ghia

One of the nice things of driving around with Remo

Ricchettiis this fact that he knows all the cars. Helisten to a motor, and he can tell you year, model,

designers, car-maker + lots of other curious

information.

For instance, we were driving from Eindhoven to

For space in our image is place, and time in our

image is occasion.

(Aldo van Eyck)
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Crescenzago

Finally, Back Home...

Last month, I've been all around. Matera, then

Catania, those days spent in Sassuolo at the

ceramic district. And then Bruxelles, Berlin, the

Netherlands.

Finally home. I am pretty dead.

Greetings from via Cascia...

Den Haag, when all sudden he screamed:

"Volkswagen Karmann Ghia!".

Here some more about this fantastic car designed

by Luigi Segre in the mid-fifties

http://en.wikipedia.

org/wiki/Volkswagen_Karmann_Ghia
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Then, Last Night...

I was walking last night, when all sudden, I've seen

the light.

But, not only I saw the light. I was able to catch it

and to feel it in my hand. Very special feeling.

Warm. With ivy all around. My fingers got to betranslucent and I was even able to take a

photograph of the whole thing.

Very

Wish you were there with me...

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Palermo

Very Nice!

The other day, Giuseppe Pulvirentisent me the

link to his new website:

http://www.pulvirentistudio.it/

Giuseppe Pulvirenti was born in Palermo in 1972.

He graduates in Architecture, specializes in

scenography, obtains an actors degree: right from

the start, he pursues those trespassings betweenart and design that will connote his personal

interior design and industrial design research.

In 2009 he launches the brand Oji, with the

eclectic collaboration of a group of artists,designers and Sicilian creative minds. Since 2012

hes Design professor for the Bachelor of Design at

Abadir (Arts Between Architecture Design &

Interdisciplinary Research) in Catania, Sicily.

See more at: http://www.pulvirentistudio.

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