Posts Tagged ‘ideas’

Scritture giovani, a new generation of european writers

Magazine -> #2 Creating Opportunities

Four young writers talking about writing's timetables and scoreboards. WHEN DO YOU WRITE, IN YOUR DAILY LIFE? DO YOU CUT OUT A FIXED PERIOD OR DOES WRITING END UP MERGING WITH YOUR DAILY ACTIVITIES? Davide Longo - I'm a teacher and during the school year I write very little, a couple of novels at the most, something for the radio, I help out ...

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Creative battles

Magazine -> #0 Experimentation and innovation

In Coppola's Apocalypse Now, when searching the jungle for the maverick commander Kurts, the man sent to hunt him down describes a brilliant mission Kurtz had led, "He just thought it up and did it. They were going to get him framed to the floorboards for that one until the press got hold it and promoted him to Colonel." The spirit of creative b...

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Gente che non se la tira*

-> Gente che non se la tira*

Triennale di Milano, presentazione libro CAMPARISODA. L'aperitivo dell'arte veloce Futurista, Corraini Edizioni. Steven Guarnaccia (illywords#14, Parsons school  N.Y ) tra il designer Matteo Ragni e Alessandro Mendini stimola la battuta di Beppe Finessi :" Matteo, come diciamo a Milano, e' uno che non se la tira"! Ma e' proprio vero che...

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When there’s nothing left to say

Magazine -> #27 The Culture of Listening

Silence creates room for the mind, and the mind can create visions. Yoko Ono described how the hypnotic effect of a flame would help to do this: “You could tell someone to look into the fire for 10 days just to create a vision in someone’s mind” she write in her first, epic work, a book of instructions for performances entitled Grapefruit (a ...

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The opinion

Magazine -> #20 Home Made

When it comes to the business world, I am absolutely convinced that the kind of creativity that leads to real innovation can only develop “in house” – in other words the place where all the input from day-to-day relations with clients and products is received and digested. To paraphrase the Chinese saying ”Listen and forget, see and remembe...

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The perfection of imperfect

Magazine -> #20 Home Made

Your work shows your clear preference for the “manual” dimension, which we could express with the term “home made” – is this the result of a strong desire to rediscover your roots? It is part of our background, connected to the place where we were born. We have never abandoned our roots. Although we work in São Paulo, Humberto and I ha...

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Innovage: the purloined article

Magazine -> #26 Re-Evaluate The Error

Here then is yet another new word, “innovage”, born of the marriage of “innovation” and “vintage”. It’s really not all that surprising that so many new words are being thrown up every day. “The times they are a-changin’”, as the song goes, and in a really big way, be it in environmental, social, economic, or cultural terms. P...

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The art of places

Magazine -> #13 Conscious project

You were involved in the "50th Biennale" in Venice; in your opinion, what relevance and meaning do such events have in developing a new awareness/sensibility in the audience? I think that it is essential that events like this exist; they give some kind of overview on what is happening in art at the moment. We might like one biennale better than t...

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A book to live by

Magazine -> #10 Nomadic knowledge

How much, do you feel, does literature contribute to the diffusion of knowledge? In so far as they represent possible ways of living, mirrors in which to view ourselves, yardsticks that can help us in making choices and taking decisions, works of literature contribute to disseminating knowledge. The make-believe world of literature suggests that ...

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Taking the right turn

Magazine -> #17 Serendipity

Serendipity isn’t yet a very familiar concept in the cultural sphere, is it? It mightn’t be, but what it refers to is very relevant to design and innovation in any sphere of activity, not only that of culture. How do you go about trying to be innovative? And can serendipity help? The best way to go about it is to look elsewhere. The beaten t...

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The intention doesn’t matter

Magazine -> #21 Senti-mentally

In front a cup of coffee. For me, the expression of emotion is never calculated. I’ll wager that emotion is always there if the work is motivated by pleasure and desire. Since I often have too many ideas or desires, I usually start each project with endless lists, which I then cut into little strips and arrange in order of preference to make ...

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A lot to learn

Magazine -> #21 Senti-mentally

After graduating in architecture from Turin Polytechnic, in 1947 Ettore Sottsass jr. (Innsbruck, 1917) began working in Milan, where he opened his first design studio. Son of an architect and an architect himself, from the start he backed up his formal education and training with practical experiences in the visual arts field, trying out his ar...

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The coach

Magazine -> #21 Senti-mentally

illy will be present at the international art exhibition of the Venice Biennale for the fourth time. THINK WITH YOUR SENSES, FEEL WITH YOUR MIND. ART IN THE PRESENT. Is the title of the 52nd International Art Exhibition curated by Robert Storr and organised by the Venice Biennale chaired by Davide Croff. Installed at the Arsenale and Giardini, it...

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Self-portraits, almost

Magazine -> #24 Self Portrait

In front of a coup of coffee “When I saw myself, I wasn’t there”, hissed the poets (funambulists) of the art, our art, when age-old conventional forms were suddenly torn asunder by concepts. That was indeed the time when art practices were centred on the conceptual (by way of example see a square metre of felt under the entry “Vincenzo A...

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