Chair Dummy

Try to make a 1:5 scale dummy for that Noah’s Ark Chair. Although idea still developing, I do want to make some dummy out for inspiration. 

and also a Rhino head chill out arm chair~ 1:5scale, I like the shape very much! 

summarizing the ideas

summarizing the ideas I developed  and discussed with Maiko and Bernaby,

to identify them, they will be written in the format: a) concept from/ b) ideas development/c) tutor feedback or my thought

1.a) polar bear losing living habitat due to global warming

b) to design a set of chairs that letting audience or user feel the same situation as polar bear –  losing the comfort environment, chairs or tables will separate into different pieces or parts.

c) I think if this is a real product, user could not really experience the insecure but only enjoying the different function of that; could it develop in installation?

2.a) after reading the reason of the animals extinction, deforestation is one of the main reason.

b) toilet paper roll, with jungle or trees printing on the sides. the core will be the animals image e.g. tiger. so people keep using the paper just like killing the wood.

c) Bernaby like this small ideas on daily use products, he suggest me to think of a series of those household products. This idea could be applied in plastic cup (not eco-friendly), A4 papers or tissue pack….etc.

3.a) animals losing habitat or hide from hunters

b) as I wrote here, a series of furniture or product with the topic Hide and Seek.

c) Maiko suggest me to work out the dummy or another model for more inspiration.

4.a) global warming, water level rise, noah ask saving animals.

b) firstly is a chair developed like a Noah Ark, or may be with tables or sty else……later I develop it as an installation that with many endangered animals climbing on the boat(chair), so audience go into the installation, sit down……meaning that the human him/herself occupying the whole boat and seeing all other animals without home.

c) Maiko suggest me to work it out and show it in the interim show. Actually I like this very much and now searching and thinking of the making method, e.g. (steam bending for wood)

Fun Pic

How many animals u could see?

Wire Animals

Developed from getting making workshop, I made some more.

from the left: zebra, tiger, rhino, elephant, turtle, gorilla, whale, rhino, dolphin, eagle.

Fun Box

Barnaby told us to setup a fun box, putting all interesting printout, drawings or magazine page into it, I’d rather put all on the wall. 😀

Spider Web Watch?!

Spider Acetate Transparent LCD Watch

In order to have further inspiraton, I would also upload artworks or design about animals,
that not only related to endangered species~

ES DAY!!! on third Friday of May

http://www.sesync.org/blog/endangered-species-day-13

WWF web

WWF lists out the endangered species, is helpful for my project.
Actually the endangered species could also divided as:

1) Extinct

2) Extinct in the wild

3) Critically endangered

4) Endangered

5) Vulnerable

6) Near threatened

7) Least concern

and there is an icon for each of them, 

https://worldwildlife.org/species/directory?direction=desc&sort=extinction_status

08Nov2013 meeting with Rohan Chhabra

As mentioned in previous note, Rohan Chhabra, who graduated from CSM, he got a series of design that inspiring my project. It was glad to seeing him and we share our point of view on endangered animals.

V: whats your concepts behind the works?

RC:

-Hunter jackets (hunter being hunted; trophy at home; letting hunter think what if they are the animals)

-scarified shape for jeans (people not having a concept where it come from; a cow leg letting people think the leather came from there)

-choose some animal with iconic, otherwise people can’t really recognize.

V: Is jacket the original concept you want to create?

RC suggested me not needed to set what I really want to make ,

In this stage do more research, e.g. keep watching national geographic / BBC.

V: How you define art and design?

RC: “you don’t have to pin it” he said . by using his hunter jacket as an example, some people think is fashion, some think it is art, some think that is products….

“as long as it make sense and communicate well” he said.

just like what we discussed in the lesson that Yuta brings out…..

well I still wondering what is that and how to define…..?!

V: any difficulties during the project?

RC and I also found that the environmental protection organizations are not easy to coop with. For me, I email several of them, but no reply or some said the time and resources would not be able to help my project.

V:is endangered species always your works’ topic?

RC said he firstly created the ram as the graduation project, and keep making others afterwards

RC also think that Europe is a good platform for such kind of project since people are well educated so that they will really concern about it. During the conversation, we both have the idea of running behind one we got some news from animals extinct. We all looking forward to gather the artist making the similar artworks, we could from different countries with different skills, interesting!!!