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NO-CHAIR-DESIGN Challenge
Dates:
Sun Jan 01, 2012 00:00 - Mon Dec 31, 2012
Ore.e Ref. is challenging designers of the world to NOT design chairs the next year. It's that simple!
We believe that the world already has enough chairs. Designing new ones only takes time away from renovating the ones we already have. Consider this the ultimate challenge for you to rethink how sustainable design should be manifested. If not that... Then think about the amount of time you'll save when you don't have to design chairs for a year.
To show you have accepted this challenge sign up online. Your participation will be added to the People IN list of this site if you so choose (by default your participation will be anonymous). Beginning 2012 you may also send us an SMS* (text/photo) telling us what you've done when not designing chairs. Five designers will be rewarded with "DnS - Design and Craft Diplomas".
*Only standard price for the SMS
We believe that the world already has enough chairs. Designing new ones only takes time away from renovating the ones we already have. Consider this the ultimate challenge for you to rethink how sustainable design should be manifested. If not that... Then think about the amount of time you'll save when you don't have to design chairs for a year.
To show you have accepted this challenge sign up online. Your participation will be added to the People IN list of this site if you so choose (by default your participation will be anonymous). Beginning 2012 you may also send us an SMS* (text/photo) telling us what you've done when not designing chairs. Five designers will be rewarded with "DnS - Design and Craft Diplomas".
*Only standard price for the SMS
D2T - DIY is dead, long live HANDICRAFTS
Oh. Almost forgot here is a timeline of events on Dipity: http://www.dipity.com/ldezem/Ore-e-Refineries"> http://www.dipity.com/ldezem/Ore-e-Refineries>
D2T - DIY is dead, long live HANDICRAFTS
Dates:
Mon Nov 08, 2010 00:00 - Mon Nov 08, 2010
Location:
Finland
Ore.e Refineries (the robust new media company of the post-industrial era) is glad to announce D2T - Digital-To-Tangible services.
The artist run company is working to solve sustainability issues in the field of new media arts. DT2 is a project during which a group of artist undigitize selected online documents. The "undigitization" is done by hand like manuscripts of the past and the selected materials have a life expediency of 500 to 1000 years.
DT2 (Digital-to-Tangible)=: http://oree.storijapan.net/more.html#mozTocId755339
You may propose sites to convert into tangible forms here.
The craftspeople behind this company are working under "social entrepreneurship" guidelines. Both artists have worked from 2007 onwards to create a globally functional, robust "system of goods pruduction" using traditional handicrafts methods. The project begun with the manufacture of a small, portable ore refinery. Since this the company has focused on the refining of fair trade Zambian copper.
An other project YOU might enjoy is "The Message". During this online social media project a group of activists and artist collect messages addressed to the civilization which will discover the Onkalo NUCLEAR WASTE repository being build at: 61° 14′ 13″ N, 21° 26′ 27″ E. Ore.e Ref. will carve this message in 15cm letters (using the Lucinda Grande font) into bedrock close to the actual waste-site.
The Message: http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Message/152968481408521
As a resource on sustainable system design we recommend this interview of Ukrainian Blacksmith Bodgan Popov. Bogdans work is focused on environmental issues. He is researching on how blacksmiths (and other craftspeople) could be utilized when urban planners / other designers (like you) are building ecologically sustainable living environments.
Interview of Ukrainian Blacksmith Bodgan Popov: http://vimeo.com/15420921
Ore Refining, Metals and Crafts with a Twist! Check out the web 1.0 classic style site! Everything optimized for the end of the world, in the beginning of which the net turns slow (The largest size of pages is 33.91 KB)
[cool]http://oree.storijapan.net/[/cool]
Tags: post-industrial era, archaeology of the future, handicrafts
The artist run company is working to solve sustainability issues in the field of new media arts. DT2 is a project during which a group of artist undigitize selected online documents. The "undigitization" is done by hand like manuscripts of the past and the selected materials have a life expediency of 500 to 1000 years.
DT2 (Digital-to-Tangible)=: http://oree.storijapan.net/more.html#mozTocId755339
You may propose sites to convert into tangible forms here.
The craftspeople behind this company are working under "social entrepreneurship" guidelines. Both artists have worked from 2007 onwards to create a globally functional, robust "system of goods pruduction" using traditional handicrafts methods. The project begun with the manufacture of a small, portable ore refinery. Since this the company has focused on the refining of fair trade Zambian copper.
An other project YOU might enjoy is "The Message". During this online social media project a group of activists and artist collect messages addressed to the civilization which will discover the Onkalo NUCLEAR WASTE repository being build at: 61° 14′ 13″ N, 21° 26′ 27″ E. Ore.e Ref. will carve this message in 15cm letters (using the Lucinda Grande font) into bedrock close to the actual waste-site.
The Message: http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Message/152968481408521
As a resource on sustainable system design we recommend this interview of Ukrainian Blacksmith Bodgan Popov. Bogdans work is focused on environmental issues. He is researching on how blacksmiths (and other craftspeople) could be utilized when urban planners / other designers (like you) are building ecologically sustainable living environments.
Interview of Ukrainian Blacksmith Bodgan Popov: http://vimeo.com/15420921
Ore Refining, Metals and Crafts with a Twist! Check out the web 1.0 classic style site! Everything optimized for the end of the world, in the beginning of which the net turns slow (The largest size of pages is 33.91 KB)
[cool]http://oree.storijapan.net/[/cool]
Tags: post-industrial era, archaeology of the future, handicrafts
