IDW 2019

by Gro Rødne and Nina Haarsaker shaken not stirred / stirred not shaken by Filip Collin and Quinten Vermincksel the most utopian hour Being in a design process always challenges us into being in the in-between, the liminal and the uncertain. Like the definition of the threshold concept 1 you have to cope this troublesome state of transformative uncertainty, to traverse and gain new understanding, cognition and recognition. In other words: A creative process implies that you bold and brave have to endure and handle to be in a place where you do not know the answer yet. During this week we will use different tools – and the resources of the group, to challenge our self. Like the cat Cheshire answers Alice, when the road divides: Where do you want to go? the unknown materials anti-fragile unexpected in limbo beautiful mistakes the ideal ugly brutal relocate strange unconscious to place lucid opportunities to fit on alert In our reflections into the project we got to the artist Joseph Kosuth, who’s work we can relate to in the concept of liminality. Kosuth’s thematization of semantic congruities and incongruities can be seen as a reflection of the problems which the relations between concept and presentation pose. Kosuth uses the related questions, “how meanings of signs are constituted” and “how signs refer to extra- lingual phenomena” as a fundament to discuss the relation between concept and presentation. We translate liminality, applying the theories of Kosuth, into ‘the most utopian hour’. Here we make a connection between space and time in which we find the theme of this week. The first step is to find concrete links within space and time and how these two can limit one another. This leads up to a path through the schools neighborhood where images and objects get registered. Afterwards the collected images get analyzed / abstracted / conceptualized. This with the purpose of making a library of shapes what can be used to put together new compositions as a translation of the world around us within the limits we live. We aim for the students to work with different kinds of media and set the computer aside. The goal is an installation set up by the student. The different courses of the faculty can come together and work to inspire one another. The idea is to incorporate the different levels of design to enhance the interaction between the courses. The students will be inspired by connecting different concepts to the given references throughout the project and develop language of images. The result is a multimedia installation that uses film, objects, collages and other kinds of interpretations of the different shapes into one image. 1 What are the Threshold Consepts? In any discipline, there are certain concepts - the ‘jewels in the curriculum’ - whose acquisition is akin to passing through a portal. Learners navigating such spaces report a sense of uncertainty, ambiguity, paradox, anxiety, even chaos. The liminal space may equally be one of awe and wonderment. https://www.ntnu.edu/transark/about or https://www.ee.ucl.ac.uk/ ~mflanaga/thresholds_in_practice 1. Constant Nieuwenhuijs : Klein Labyr (1959) 2. Joseph Kosuth: One and Three Chairs 3. Collages Henri Matisse: Snail