“Don’t design more thingie things,” says Debra Solomon. For DAMn magazine I interviewed her on food as culture. Like in Lucky Mi Fortune Cooking where local entrepreneurs join their flow of food and leftovers to create new products and extra profit, Debra thinks the future of design lies in creating networks. “Build platforms and systems, not things”.
Ward van Gemert likes to break things. Analyzing and arranging the parts brings him to a new re-use: reconstructivism. Exploded Chandeliers where the wire is also the backbone, a Stretched Table. His Exploded Chair shows an infinite range of new design originating from a standard canteen chair. He even managed a chaise longue by Corbu. Remember the Exploded formula 1 car?
Erick van Egeraat is building a new home for law firm De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek. The tower follows the vertical layering structure with the anatomical analogy of legs, torso and head as is obligatory on the Zuidas. The three blocks called The Rock show different tactility. Inside vides and vision lines connect the three together. The interior is made in coproduction with Vitra.
What does the hotel room of the future look like? For Frame magazine I wrote a series of four that tells the experience of staying the night in Autohotel, You Are Here, Galactic Suites and Fraunhofer’s future testroom. In the last interior and technology are one white Zaha-like flow. A panoramic window doubles as control screen.
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