What kind of alternative Memento Mori practices might be created in light of future developments in technology, philosophy and science? Memento Mori is a Latin phrase meaning “Remember You Will Die” and a genre of Christian art with a strong emphasis on Divine Judgment, Heaven, (more)
ADHOCISM is an installation at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) in Chicago from the 19th – 24th July by British designers Tim Parsons and Jessica Charlesworth. The title refers to the 1972 book Adhocism: The Case for Improvisation by Charles Jencks and Nathan Silver which (more)
The City Museum at St Louis is neither a museum nor a museum about the City in the traditional sense but more of a cabinet of curiosities. On my recent first visit I was completely overwhelmed by the absolute eccentricity of every aspect of this (more)
I have recently signed up to a class at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in Digital Crafts run by the awesome Laura Prieto-Velasco. As part of the learning process we were asked to create a range of simple models from any ‘pedestrian’ material (more)
The eChromi Synthetic Biology project created by two designer from London, James King and Daisy Ginsberg, in collaboration with Cambridge University’s iGem team has been nominated for the Brit Insurance Designs of the Year award at the Design Museum in London for 2011. The eChromi project was designed (more)
Photographs of carefully arranged groups of objects A quote by the awesome NY Times journalist Rob Walker from his recent blog post at Consumed commenting on the rise of websites curating photographs of objects in interesting ways. He mentions Things Organized Neatly, the Collection A (more)
Today’s cabinet of curiosities reveal the unseen and the everyday as a way to celebrate the social and cultural phenomena of our current way of life.
Trompe l’oeil of a Cabinet of Curiosity by Domenico Remps circa 1500s The original WunderKammer demonstrated the expanded awareness and knowledge of the complexity of nature and of the altered vision of the world during the Renaissance. Each cabinet reflected the cultural context of its time (more)
