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300 WORDS ABOUT YOUR WORK
WHAT
“The designer designed by Humans” is an installation that took place in the 3rd Istambul Design Biennal in 2016. This installation, which I designed as part of the team of the international office estudioHerreros, creates an audiovisual space in which the viewer could experience the design process of hundreds of contemporary designers through archive pictures or audiovisual material of them.
This multi-screen video installation presents five types of “designers”: the designer of prototypes, the designer as political negotiator, the designer by e-mail, the designer as consultants’ coordinator, and the designer of parts of a whole.
HOW
This installation started with a deep research into the method and strategic process that international designers follow in their production. After several weeks in which hundreds of references, testimonies and works were collected and analyses, we could conclude that the contemporary designer could be classified in one of the categories described above.
The green floor and walls area was equipped with ten screens, headphones and chairs in order to allow the viewers to find them confront space. The five types of designer were explained in ten synchronized screens that played videos that shared exactly the same structure so the visitor could choose between understand the installation as a complex combination of audio-visual content or be focused and enjoy each of them as an independent piece.
WHY
The 3rd Istambul Design Biennal in 2016, curated by Beatriz Colomina and Mark Wigley launched the question “Are we Humans?” as the main reflexion topic for participants. The Designer designed by Humans answer this question exploring what is the current role of the designers and how the designers have been redesigned by the human environment.
FINAL VERSION
“The designer designed by Humans” is an installation that took place in the 3rd Istambul Design Biennal in 2016. This project, which I designed as part of the team of the international office estudioHerreros, created an audiovisual space in which the viewer experienced the design process of hundreds of contemporary designers through archive pictures or audiovisual material of them. This multi-screen video installation presents five types of designers: the designer of prototypes, the designer as political negotiator, the designer by e-mail, the designer as consultants’ coordinator, and the designer of parts of a whole.
This project started with a deep research into the method and strategic process that international designers follow in their production. After several weeks in which hundreds of references, testimonies and works were collected and analysed, we concluded that the contemporary designer could be classified in one of the categories described above.
The green floor and walls area was equipped with movable screens, headphones and chairs in order to allow the viewers to find their comfort space. The five types of designer were explained in ten synchronized screens which played videos that shared exactly the same structure so the visitor could choose between understand the installation as a complex combination of audio-visual content or be focused and enjoy each of them as an independent piece.
The 3rd Istambul Design Biennal in 2016, curated by Beatriz Colomina and Mark Wigley launched the question “Are we Humans?” as the main reflexion topic for participants. The Designer designed by Humans answer this question exploring what is the current role of the designers. In the 20th and 21st century new figures of designers appeared in parallel to the human behaviour evolution. This dynamic installation allows visitors to have close contact with the creative processes and be immersed in a large number of references to achieve that the role of the designer can be understood all over the world.
SYNOPSIS, ABSTRACT
Fake It Till You Make it – Genesis of the Entrepreneurial Precariat
- Author: Silvio Lorusso
- Publisher and date: 2018
Abstract
Silvio Lorusso narrates the perception of precariousness in relation to entrepreneurship through the different thoughts of writers, philosophers or social movements. “Fake it till you make it” is an expression that represents the existential crisis of the entreprecariat. Nobody assumes that is precariat because this could contradict the entrepreneur spirit. Even so in many countries movements have appeared claiming precarious situations such as San Precario, result of thirty years of policies in favour of companies and against workers.
Synopsis
Fake It Till You Make it - Genesis of the Entrepreneurial Precariat is an article by Silvio Lorusso, that narrate the perception of precariousness in relation to entrepreneurship through the different view that writers, philosophers or social movements have about it. First of all to describe the current situation, we need to understand Millenials as technology humans main characters of the digital revolution with a constant uncertain horizon.
Based on the words of Michel Foucault's who introduced the expression "Entrepreneur of the self", Lorusso establish a link between this description of entrepreneur and the current 20-30 years old worker, who has oneself as the centre of gravity of their work instead of their companies. Moreover, we can classify socially the entrepreneur following the social pyramid that Joseph Schumpeter presented. He saw the entrepreneur as the top of the social pyramid because of its precious ability to innovate. This vision was inverted by Peter Drucker who defended that everyone is call to free enterprise if we want to accelerate the innovation. As a result of all these ideas the entreprecariat concept was born.
"Fake it till you make it" is an expression that represents the existential crisis of the entreprecariat. And it can be understood from two different perspectives. On the one hand, as an entrepreneur concept is defined as the existence of a product in order to obtain the financing necessary for its realization but psychologically speaking it is just fake your happiness till you are happy. If you mix this two concepts you can obtain a continuos optimization individuals that assume the failures on themselves.
In relation to the concept "class dysphoria" introduced by Raffaele Alberto Ventura we can understand that entreprecatiat need to show themself as a rich individual with opportunities. Nobody assumes that is precariat because this could contradict the entrepreneur spirit. Even so in many countries movements have appeared claiming precarious situations.
Finally, San Precario is described as a collective anonymous creation that emerged after thirty years of policies in favour of companies and against workers and which mission is still to be defined. Alex Foti, indicates three main objectives: urban power, climate justice and Universal Basic Income (UBI)
The article conclude explained the possible paths for the future described as: "to replicate the mantra of precarized entrepreneurship or to try to collectively bring about an entrepreneurial precariat".