Rolf's course 31/01

• object
• perversion
• subject

things function not due to use but because they can (ability of can)

we interpreted the use in different ways. we talk for different uses but we understand the use of the others through communication

references:

Bernard Tschumi: event-cities / event-cities 2 / event-cities 3; concept vs. context vs. content

Peter Fischli, David Weiss: Der Lauf Der Dinge
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K73ux73wddk
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094300/

Per Olaf 26/01: To compare the notes with you

- function is not an object, but a programme for a particular activity
- function has a content but it has not a 3D expression
- the expression of is free because it's not still expressed. This expression doesn't necessary repeat or copy the function, but it finds an indentity itself
- the "function" it comes from something but emerges something elsewhich is embedded in the first something.

references:

painting: Tower of Babel - Tobias Vercaecht

















poetry: Seamus Heaney http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seamus_Heaney
Richard Willhem http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Wilhelm

Sottsass quote

" As we know very well, when you try to define the function of any object, the function slips through your fingers, because function is life itself. Function is not one screw more or ome meausure less. Function is the final possibility of the relation between an object and life". Ettore Sottsass

memories

Once they asked me what I used to be.

I looked at them and show them the mark on my knee and I told them that was what I used to be, a naughty child.

Once they asked me what I will be.

I looked at them and show them an old man talking to some kids. I told them that was what I will become, a wise old man.

Once they asked me what I was.

I looked at them and show them a cellar. I told them that was what I was, my cellar.

Define the function

The chosen function in the first stage is to store.
The meaning of the word has many levels.
The etymology:

store, hive away, lay in, put in, salt away, stack away, stash away
keep or lay aside for future use; "store grain for the winter"; "The bear stores fat for the period of hibernation when he doesn't eat" Category Tree:

have; have got; hold

╚keep; hold on

╚store, hive away, lay in, put in, salt away, stack away, stash away

╚hive

╚roll up; collect; accumulate; pile up; amass; compile; hoard

╚victual

╚computerize; computerise

╚bin

2 store
find a place for and put away for storage; "where should we stow the vegetables?"; "I couldn't store all the books in the attic so I sold some" Category Tree:

have; have got; hold

╚keep; hold on

╚store

╚ensile

╚bottle

╚garage

╚warehouse

╚loft

╚tank

╚wharf

╚reposit

╚mothball

╚keep

╚garner

When it comes to the object of the active to store then I distinct in the following categories:

materials things

memories

experiences

knowledge

energy

emotions

life

souls.

The verb in the passive, active and productive form has different functions:

Passive
Keep
Preserve
Look out
Hold

Active
Collect
Supply
Help
Assist
Hide
Present
Process

Productive
Situations
Experiences
Feelings
Memories
Knowledge
Life
Death
Continuation
Wishes
Interruptions
Associations

When I think the action to store immediately I associate with different words. Some of them:

Open
Close
Carton
Cluster
Evil
Good
Traumas
Messy
Order
Danger
Different
Needs
Fear
Hope
Same
Strange
Continuation
Help
Supplies
Noxious
Useful
Beneficial
Intermissions
Associations
Dreams
Fragments
Unities
Wishes

intro

This is a blog where I hope I will STORAGE my thoughts for this semester studio course at AHO.