everyday hero: improvisation . . .

ubiquitous quality factor number 13 •
everyday design hero:
improvisation . . .

“the aspects of things that are most important for us are hidden because of their simplicity & familiarity.”

philosopher ludwig wittgenstein

01) lightness . . .

02) enhancing civility . . .

03) beautility . . .

04) robust, resilient & repairable . . .

05) embracing aspects of homo ludens . . .

06) anthropomorphic . . .

07) adaptable | transformable . . .

08) intuitive | self-explanatory . . .

09) accessible to 90% of the world . . .

10) a variation on a theme . . .

11) ephemeral . . .

12) wabi-sabi (grows better with time &/or use) . . .

13) improvisation . . .

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like the fella says, in italy for 30 years under the borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, and bloodshed, but they produced michelangelo, leonardo da vinci, and the renaissance. in switzerland they had brotherly love – they had 500 years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce ? the cuckoo clock . . .

1949 | improvisation by orson welles as harry lime in the film, the third man, which was not in the script &/or the book by the same name written by graham greene.

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design should make room for spontaneity and discovery, blending
the pleasure and pain of life into something wonderful . . .

william eugene stumpf | * march 1, 1936 † august 30, 2006 |
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the architectural review:
rest in public as resistance, by marie-louise richards
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99% invisible: noodling workaround: cheap & clever
hack helps make roads safer for cyclists . . .
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suggested reading &/or the dialects of design continued, improvisation:

01) arkhipov, vladimir. home-made contemporary russian folk artifacts.
london, murray & sorrell fuel, 2006.
02) arkhipov, vladimir. home-made europe contemporary folk artifacts.
london, murray & sorrell fuel, 2012.
03) bertram, georg w. and michael rüsenberg. improvisieren! lob der ungewissheit. ditzingen, reclam verlag, 2021.
04) cartier-bresson, henri. man and machine. new york, viking press, 1971.
05) hollein, hans. man transforms, an international exhibition on aspects of design.
new york, cooper-hewitt museum,1976.
06) kries, mateo, and jolanthe kugler. eames furniture source book.
weil am rhein, vitra design museum, 2017.
07) magnago lampugnani, vittorio. bedeutsame belanglosigkeiten.
berlin, verlag klaus wagenbach, 2019.
08) maharam, michael, and bailey salisbury, editors. maharam stories.
new york, skira rizzoli publications, 2015.
09) veuillet, mélanie. tools of disobedience.
printed in germany, edition patrick frey (zurich), 2017.