June 2012 - Pikaland

The One Academy: Y U No Process

My obliging audience!

If you’ve noticed that I was gone for a couple of days, it’s because I just came back from being a guest speaker at The One Academy’s Y U NO PROCESS event this morning. It was held for third year students and it was amazing to speak in front of a bunch of interactive (and very cheeky) students!

My talk was about life as a design process and how one should design their life above all else. I gave tips, examples and shared some of my own processes that got to where I am today – and got lots of laughs, giggles and cheer along the way.

To the organizers who I have come to regard as friends (you crazy bunch you!), thanks for organizing a kick-ass show! To the students who listened, thank you so much for humoring me, and for those who sought me out personally (you know who you are), I’ll remind you this: You really can do anything you want.

I’ll do a proper recap next week, but until then, I’m going to just crash for the next couple of days!

Have a good weekend folks!

Peter Pilotto

Love these psychedelic patterns and fashion created by Peter Pilotto for their pre-spring 2013 collection. The simple silhouettes work beautifully as a clean canvas for these eye-grabbing patterns!

Via Lost at E Minor

A lightness in the air

The writer Italo Calvino believed that knowledge was in literature. On his book “‪Six Memos for the Next Millennium‬” he wrote beautifully about the values that he believed to be important to transmit to the generation of the year 2000.

Lightness, quickness, exactitude, visibility, multiplicity and consistency. The first of these values resulted on the exhibition “Havia um ar de leveza” (There was an air of lightness in portuguese), with Suzzana Magalhães as curator.

I invited Joana Zimmermann to partner with me. We created a piece called “Play me, I’m yours” that makes it clear to be interactive. The spectators are transformed into participants, sitting on the swing and giving life to the piece. When you move, the movement also gives balance to the other swing on the side, where is Minos, our guardian.

On the video below you can see how fun it is to interact with it!

Who sits and starts to swing, immediately realizes that its inserted in a kind of a fabled scene, with cellophane clouds above their heads, a tribute to Perseu and also to Brasília, the city where the exhibition is taking place! 🙂