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| * A visual survey of -Inflatable Inspirations- , I came to a collection of 15 sections with each specific qualities. Each section by far don't give a complete overview in its field. But the main criteria for selecting the works is that they are in one way or another inspiring and that they all can lead to new vibrations… Images of Inflatable Inspirations: [[Experience Inflatables]] - [[Powered By Wind]] - [[Parasite Inflatables]] - [[Soap Experiences]] - [[When Nature Inflates]] - [[Environmental Blendings]] - [[Hardened Bubbles]] - [[Inflatable Spaces]] - [[Inflatable Sound]] - [[Interactive Inflatables]] - [[Inflatable Wearables]] - [[The Non Categorized Inflatables]] - [[Lighter Than Air]] - [[Nasa Inflatables]] | * A visual survey of -Inflatable Inspirations-. I came to a collection of 14 sections with each specific qualities. Each section by far don't give a complete overview in its field. But the main criteria for selecting the works is that they are in one way or another inspiring and that they all can lead to new vibrations… Images of Inflatable Inspirations: [[Experience Inflatables]] - [[Powered By Wind]] - [[Parasite Inflatables]] - [[Soap Experiences]] - [[When Nature Inflates]] - [[Environmental Blendings]] - [[Hardened Bubbles]] - [[Inflatable Spaces]] - [[Inflatable Sound]] - [[Interactive Inflatables]] - [[Inflatable Wearables]] - [[The Non Categorized Inflatables]] - [[Lighter Than Air]] - [[Nasa Inflatables]] |
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| * A summary Christopher Alexanders pattern language found with the title “There is a Timeless Way of Building”: see [[Pneumatology]] | * A summary Christopher Alexanders "Pattern Language" found with the title “There is a Timeless Way of Building”: see [[Pneumatology]] |
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| * A pattern language specific for inflatable architectural structures: see [[Pneumatology]] | * A pattern language specific made for inflatable architectural structures: see [[Pneumatology]] |
| * Design considerations for inflatable structures: see [[Pneumatology]] | * Design considerations for inflatable structures: see [[Pneumatology]] |
| * A collection of physical materials and catalogues for inflatables for foam's public library | * A collection of physical materials and catalogues for inflatables at foam's public material library |
| * An inventory of innovative inflatable- manufacturers, research labs, producers and other people working with inflatables both from the artistic and in the technological field can be found at: [[Inflatable Structures ]] \\ | * An inventory of innovative inflatable- manufacturers, research labs, producers and other people working with inflatables both from the artistic and in the technological field can be found at: [[Inflatable Structures ]] \\ |
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| * The third principle was //modularity//. I wonder if working with modular structures, we can make space which are alive. Christopher Alexander always asks himself the most important question when concerning spaciality: -how does it feel- as the most accurate scientific question. So one can ask himself; how does it feel to be in a modular surrounding...note that nature is never modular. Nature is full of almost similar units (waves, raindrops, blades of grass-) but though the units of one kind are all alike in their broad structure, no two are ever alike in detail. - the same broad features keep recurring over and over again. - in their detail appearance these broad features are never twice the same. - The quality of places is never twice the same, because it always takes its shape from the particular place in which it occurs. Each part is slightly different, according to its position in the whole. Each branch of a tree has a slightly different shape, according to its position in the tree. Each leaf on the branch is given its detailed form by its position on the branch. And maybe that's why for instance a tree or a waves or FOam is never boring. So an alternative is to think of -differentiating spaces-: It is not a process of addition, in which pre-formed parts are combined to create a whole: but a process of __unfolding__, like the evolution of an embryo, in which the whole precedes in parts, and actually gives birth to them, by splitting (so becoming different in the process of growth or development). Only a process of __differentiation__, can generate a natural thing; because this kind of process can shape parts individually, according to their position in the whole. | * The third principle was //modularity//. I wonder if working with modular structures, we can make space which are alive. Christopher Alexander always asks himself the most important question when concerning spaciality: -how does it feel- as the most accurate scientific question. So one can ask himself; how does it feel to be in a modular surrounding...note that nature is never modular. Nature is full of almost similar units (waves, raindrops, blades of grass-) but though the units of one kind are all alike in their broad structure, no two are ever alike in detail. - the same broad features keep recurring over and over again. - in their detail appearance these broad features are never twice the same. - The quality of places is never twice the same, because it always takes its shape from the particular place in which it occurs. Each part is slightly different, according to its position in the whole. Each branch of a tree has a slightly different shape, according to its position in the tree. Each leaf on the branch is given its detailed form by its position on the branch. And maybe that's why for instance a tree or a waves or FOam is never boring. So an alternative is to think of -differentiating spaces-: It is not a process of addition, in which pre-formed parts are combined to create a whole: but a process of __unfolding__, like the evolution of an embryo, in which the whole precedes in parts, and actually gives birth to them, by splitting (so becoming different in the process of growth or development). Only a process of __differentiation__, can generate a natural thing; because this kind of process can shape parts individually, according to their position in the whole. |
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| -three parts of the research will be updated in time; the collection of the visual Living Inflatbles (and adding a section on hybrid structures), to collect inflatable materials for the Foam library; and to keep the list of interesting inflatable producers, labs, experts etc. updated. | |
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| -As a follow up from this research I like do realize two events where I will develop inflatable spaces solely inflated by wind. One of it just realised at Vurtin University in Perth, Australia where i worked with students on the beach. | |
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| -It was way more difficult to find eco friendly or biodegradable materials then I thought. The Tech-Textiele fair in Frankfurt 2007 promissed to have a lot of "green" materials, but I found not even 1, though I found a lot of 'Greenwash" textiles...But slowly oveer time we'll get there or we'll be growing or manufacturing our own nutricious bio-degradable films in a pond. | |
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| - I noticed people (no matter their background) react very strongly on the visual collection of the research, and yes it was the part I enjoyed doing the most. | |
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| *During our practises we found out that choclolate and inflatables is a good combination, so maybe we can create spatial recepys in this direction... | *During our practises we found out that choclolate and inflatables is a good combination, so maybe we can create spatial recepys in this direction... |
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| | *three parts of the research will stay updated over time; the collection of the visual Living Inflatbles (and adding a section on hybrid structures), to collect inflatable materials for the Foam library; and to keep the list of interesting inflatable producers, labs, experts etc. updated. |
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| | *As a follow up from this research I like do realize two events where I will develop inflatable spaces solely inflated by wind. One of it just realised at Curtin University in Perth, Australia where I worked with students on the beach. |
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| | ==notes== |
| | *It was way more difficult to find eco friendly or biodegradable materials then I thought. The Tech-Textiele fair in Frankfurt 2007 promissed to have a lot of "green" materials, but I found not even 1, though I found a lot of 'Greenwash" textiles...But slowly oveer time we'll get there or we'll be growing or manufacturing our own nutricious bio-degradable films in a pond. |
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| | *I noticed people (no matter their background) react very strongly on the visual collection of the research, and yes it was the part I enjoyed doing the most. |
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| ==== References ==== | ==== References ==== |
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