Comments - THE LANDSCAPE OF DESIGN TODAY - Gaia Community2024-03-29T09:23:29Zhttps://letschangetheworld.ning.com/profiles/comment/feed?attachedTo=5313775%3ABlogPost%3A38322&xn_auth=noFrom FORM FOLLOWS FUNCTION …tag:letschangetheworld.ning.com,2020-02-03:5313775:Comment:381282020-02-03T06:44:59.879ZMichael Grovehttps://letschangetheworld.ning.com/profile/MichaelGrove
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<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">From <strong><a href="https://www.facebook.com/michael.grove.98/posts/1086411831387067" rel="noopener" target="_blank">FORM FOLLOWS FUNCTION</a></strong> to <strong><a href="http://letschangetheworld.ning.com/profiles/blogs/the-inevitability-of-yet-another-perhaps" rel="noopener" target="_blank">FORM FOLLOWS…</a></strong></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">From <strong><a href="https://www.facebook.com/michael.grove.98/posts/1086411831387067" target="_blank" rel="noopener">FORM FOLLOWS FUNCTION</a></strong> to <strong><a href="http://letschangetheworld.ning.com/profiles/blogs/the-inevitability-of-yet-another-perhaps" target="_blank" rel="noopener">FORM FOLLOWS IDEAS</a></strong></span><br/><br/><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong>Collectively Communing with Consciousness</strong> <a href="http://letschangetheworld.ning.com/profiles/blogs/form-follows-free-space-ideas" target="_blank" rel="noopener">[<strong>IT</strong>] <strong>SELF</strong></a></span></p>
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<p><span><font size="4"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">The Design Museum is an unusual building, in that it has been recently newsworthy without being a tower block. Is Sudjic fond of the modern London skyline?</span> <br/><br/><span style="font-size: 18pt;">“</span></font><strong style="font-size: 14pt;">London is the nearest thing in Europe to <a href="http://letschangetheworld.ning.com/profiles/blogs/just-how-sustainable-can-all-of-this-development-be" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Shanghai</a></strong><font size="4">,</font> <strong style="font-size: 14pt;">the way the skyline has been utterly transformed</strong><font size="4">,</font> <strong style="font-size: 14pt;">in a very heedless</strong><font size="4">,</font> <strong style="font-size: 14pt;">mindless way</strong><font size="4">.</font> <strong style="font-size: 14pt;">It seems very curious that all the things that we took for granted as a terrible idea 25 years ago</strong> <font size="4">–</font> <strong style="font-size: 14pt;">like building skyscrapers in the middle of London</strong> <font size="4">–</font> <strong style="font-size: 14pt;">are suddenly seen as entirely normal</strong><font size="4">,<span style="font-size: 18pt;">”</span> <span style="font-size: 14pt;">he says. <br/><br/>“I think there are some buildings that do a lot of damage. No one, even its architect,</span></font> <span style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/architecture-design-blog/2015/sep/02/walkie-talkie-london-wins-carbuncle-cup-worst-building-of-year" class="u-underline">seems to like the Walkie Talkie</a></strong><font size="4">. There are</font> <strong><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/feb/14/battersea-nine-elms-property-development-housing" class="u-underline">areas around Battersea Power Station</a></strong> <font size="4">that, when they’re completed – the reaction’s going to be shock.” Housing crises - “So I</font> <font size="4">would probably look into curating an urban development corporation to build another Milton Keynes. You could find land that is not in the green belt, and build another proper, contemporary city”</font></span><br/><br/><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><font size="4">Stefanie Marsh - <strong><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2017/feb/18/design-museum-director-deyan-sudjic-interview" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Guardian Saturday Interview</a></strong></font></span><br/></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">.</span></p> The Design Museum has been na…tag:letschangetheworld.ning.com,2020-02-02:5313775:Comment:383252020-02-02T14:34:16.435ZMichael Grovehttps://letschangetheworld.ning.com/profile/MichaelGrove
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<div class=""><div class="_1mf _1mj"><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><strong><a href="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/3844291642?profile=original" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/3844291642?profile=RESIZE_710x" class="align-full"/></a></strong></span></span><p><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2016/nov/10/design-museum-review-kensington-london-commonwealth-institute-john-pawson">The Design Museum</a></strong> has been named <strong><a href="http://www.emya2018.eu/">European museum of the year</a></strong>, the seventh British winner in the 41-year history of the prize.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">The <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk/london">London</a> museum was crowned winner at a weekend ceremony in Warsaw, with judges praising it as “inspiring” and “socially aware”. </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">It rewards years of significant upheaval for the museum, founded three decades ago by <a href="http://letschangetheworld.ning.com/profiles/blogs/from-one-director-to-another" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><strong>Sir Terence Conran</strong>.</a></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">In 2016 <strong><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2009/sep/18/design-museum-move-kensington">it moved west</a></strong> from its beautiful but too small premises near Tower Bridge, in what used to be a banana-ripening warehouse, to the former Commonwealth Institute in Kensington.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">The move gave it three times more space and came with an ambition to do “what Tate Modern did for contemporary art, for design”. </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Alice Black, the museum’s co-director, said being named European museum of the year was a remarkable achievement, which celebrated its “common European future”.</span></p>
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<div class=""></div> The Dictionary of Design and…tag:letschangetheworld.ning.com,2020-02-02:5313775:Comment:381252020-02-02T12:05:07.212ZMichael Grovehttps://letschangetheworld.ning.com/profile/MichaelGrove
<p><span><font size="4"><strong><a href="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/447891606?profile=original" rel="noopener" target="_blank"><img class="align-full" src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/447891606?profile=RESIZE_710x"></img></a> <br></br><a href="http://letschangetheworld.ning.com/profiles/blogs/more-decoration-than-design" rel="noopener" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">The Dictionary of Design and Decoration</span></a></strong> <span style="font-size: 14pt;">was presented to me at the end of my …</span></font></span></p>
<p><span><font size="4"><strong><a href="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/447891606?profile=original" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/447891606?profile=RESIZE_710x" class="align-full"/></a><br/><a href="http://letschangetheworld.ning.com/profiles/blogs/more-decoration-than-design" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">The Dictionary of Design and Decoration</span></a></strong> <span style="font-size: 14pt;">was presented to me at the end of my </span></font></span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><font size="4">secondment and <strong><a href="https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=866745203353732" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><em>return to</em> LATCC</a></strong>, as a direct result of my refusal to be bullied into submission by the <b><span class="hvr">head</span> <span class="hvr">honcho</span></b> of the <strong><a href="https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=2342073335820904" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Maastricht UAC</a></strong>, following the Trident/C130 air-miss over the LNO beacon, which happened as a result of <em><strong>evaluating new technology still under test</strong></em>, <strong>on live air traffic movements</strong>; a process which myself and others had vehemently warned against, over a period of several months before the incident.</font></span></p>
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