Form follows what?
The brief? Design a one-piece functional object. My position? Criticize functionalism with an functionally ambiguous object… When I received the brief, I knew I wanted to take an alternative path than following the brief, so I wrote to my friend and mentor from Colombia, Alfredo Gutiérrez Borrero, so that he could suggest me some references … Read more
Support Conversation. Donate Time.
… that was the question I posed on an intervention I made in the city of Eindhoven, seeking to create a distraction in the middle of the consumerist rush that the people live on Saturdays (specially around this days of the year!). A distraction that would put people to think about what is valuable for … Read more
Thoughts from Riga
From the 7th to the 12th of November, in Riga, the MakeDesign Riga – Dutch Design made in Latvia workshop took place, getting together students from the Design Academy Eindhoven and the Academy of Arts of Latvia to collaborate in projects with different craftsmen from the country. It consisted of an intense week of collaborative … Read more
El mito del ‘dutch design’
Hace 3 semanas, en Eindhoven, tuvo lugar la 10ma semana del diseño holandés (Dutch Design Week), uno de los eventos de diseño más importante en Europa. Semanas antes del evento, se generan grandes expectativas en distintos sectores industriales y académicos, al respecto de lo que allí se presentara; no era muy distinto para mi, teniendo … Read more
Its a matter of matter {Experiences with vacuum/forming}
“What is matter? Never mind. What is mind? It doesn’t matter.” – The matter of matter is that is cannot be created or destroyed, only transformed; this may sound pretty obvious, specially because we have been listening to Einstein’s quotes since highschool. but one thing is to hear about it in a physics class, and … Read more
