Design the Symbol of the power of Ideas₍₁₎

The growth of a service economy extracts design from the system of material production and makes it a symbol of power of ideas

Sarah Zukin (Landscapes of Power)

Fear

Never fight fear head-on. That rot about pulling yourself

together, and the harder you pull the worse it gets. Let it in

and look at it. You will see it by what it does.

William S Burroughs

Polnische Luster (polish chandeliers)

Here is one example of the typical non-modernistic German/Austrian last centurie’s design. Polnische Luster (polish chandeliers) are found quite often in grannies dining/living room and might be accompanied by, some furniture in the lovely post WWII “Gelsenkirchener Barock” style, such as this cupboard.

Quote Urban Space

Recently I’ve been reading Maria Balshaw and Liam Kennedie’s “Urban Space and Representation” (2000, London, Pluto Press) and would like to remember the following quote:

The production of urban space is simultaneously real, symbolic and imaginary; what it produces is a material environment, a visual culture and a psychic space.

Hikikomori

“Hikikomori … is a Japanese term to refer to the phenomenon of reclusive individuals who have chosen to withdraw from social life, often seeking extreme degrees of isolation and confinement due to various personal and social factors in their lives. The term hikikomori refers to both the sociological phenomenon in general as well as to individuals belonging to this societal group.”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hikikomori