Headline & Editorial
Last Issue: #31 The Journey
Twenty thousand leagues under the sea by Jules Verne (1825-1905). This book is the answer to my thoughts on travel. It certainly anticipated the saga...Read more
Memory: the zest and zip of vintage
Magazine -> #25 InnovageWhen we were children we’d love to stroke mother’s otter fur coat (or perhaps it was beaver or lapin, who can say for sure at this point in time?), moving my hand back and forth in fondling reverie: a light-coloured stripe, a darkcoloured one. How soothing it was to trace figures with one’s hands over that beloved body. Memories are what p...
continue..Information blackout
Magazine -> #14 Refresh“Upgrade”, in the sense of bringing up to date, of refreshing one’s knowledge, practices and style, seems to be the catchword of the moment. One’s very survival seems to depend on it! But it’s an imperative that induces a sense of anxiety at the thought of being out-of-step; of being left behind; of redundancy. It’s a sense of anxiety ...
continue..The role of design in home experimentation
Magazine -> #0 Experimentation and innovationPeople relate with their home or work environment as dynamically as possible. They experience this environment no longer as a fixed and unchangeable set of elements and objects, but as pieces belonging to a jigsaw puzzle which we can each assemble in a different way. Thus, objects become the mediators of a unique experience between the user and hi...
continue..Teachings
Magazine -> #17 SerendipityWhat does “serendipity” mean to you? It’s connected with Charles Sanders Peirce’s idea of what constitutes an invention. He introduces the concept of “abduction”. Two Peircian scholars, Bonfantini and Proni, have identified three types of abduction which I feel are closely related to the concept of “serendipity”. The first type ...
continue..
