20230122
20220623
work during post-remote (GSD panel)
These are some of the ideas and questions that have emerged from our discussions with current students, recent graduates, and among ourselves. And led to the creation of the panel "Navigating the Life We Want Post-GSD." It has been a pleasure to co-organize the panel but mostly to hear how some of our brilliant participants address some of these concerns.
Some of the questions dealt on how to build trust, how to maintain the access to the essential informality, how to be happy together, content while working? Others evolved around problems such as gender inequalities, labor that is left out, global/local supply chains, delays and interruptions, but also on positive view, speeding times (end of bureaucracy?) as well as opportunities for getting closer to each other (since we now know everything about each other)!
Personally, in times of uncertainty having people with whom you can navigate the crises together, is key. As one of the panelists perfectly described it is all about « creating a dream together »!
About the panel:
Navigating the Life We Want Post-GSD
20211207
Architecture is workshop
Δεκέμβριος, «γιορτές» και η δυνατότητα να πηγαίνεις με τον μπαμπά στου κ. Τάκη για πρότζεκτ. Δεν μπορώ να περιγράψω την αίσθηση αυθεντικότητας που προσέφερε ένα τέτοιο εργαστήριο, το κρυο, η σόμπα, η μυρωδιά, αυτός ο «ένας άλλος κόσμος». Παλιότερα και το γραφείο του μπαμπά ήταν έτσι, πάνω στο πατάρι βράδυ. Σε αυτούς τους χώρους υπάρχει η αίσθηση ότι ο χρόνος σταματάει. Λίγο το στουντιο στο Vermont μυρίζει έτσι.
What is Architecture? Series 8/23
20210606
single-minded
"We inherited that single-minded system from an early and outmoded project for national consolidation.
In today's readjustments to global dynamics, mono is a malady of adolescent societies. "
page xv, Bilingual Aesthetics. A New Sentimental Education, Doris Sommer,
becomes again
"At the end of the meal the chopsticks are thrown away, the few plates are washed and put away, and the dining-room becomes the sitting-room again. Later on it will be a bed-room. There is no moving of furniture, no complication, no clattering of knives, forks and spoons. Everything is of the simplest."
page 108, How one lives in a traditional Japanese House, Design as Art, Bruno Munari.
20210531
Dedes
Dedes (1993)
[Ρουμί]
Αφέντης μας έν κι αγαπούμεν τον
κι απ' εκείνον έν καλή η ζωή μας.
Γιατί γύρισες, γιατί βρώμισες;
πε με τι έπαθες, πε με τι έχασες!
(Άι καρδιά μου, άι ψυχή μου!
άι το ετούτο μου, άι το εκείνο μου,
αχ σπίτι μου, αχ στέγη μου!
Αχ θησαυρέ μου, αχ χρυσοπηγή!)
Έλα καλέ μου, έλα σάχη μου·
χαρά δε δίδεις, δος μας άνεμο!
Που διψά πίνει, που πονεί λαλεί·
μηδέν τσάκωσες, καλέ, το γυαλί;
He is our Master and we love him
and because of Him our life is good.
Why have you come back, why did you get dirty?
Tell me what happened to you, tell me what you have lost!
(Oh my heart, oh my soul,
oh my this, oh my that,
ah, my house, ah my shelter!
Ah, my treasure, ah golden spring!)
Come my darling, come my shah,
you give no joy: give us the wind!
Who thirsts, drinks; who hurts, cries out;
darling, have you smashed the glass?
*Από τον ιστότοπο opudjis
the man is a guest house
Ο Ξενώνας
[Ρουμί]
Ο άνθρωπος είναι ένας ξενώνας.
Κάθε μέρα ένας καινούργιος ερχομός,
μια χαρά, μια θλίψη, μια κακία,
μια στιγμιαία συνειδητοποίηση φτάνει όπως ένας απρόσμενος επισκέπτης.
Υποδέξου τα όλα!
Ακόμα κι αν πρόκειται για ένα πλήθος καημών,
που βίαια αδειάζουν το σπίτι από τα έπιπλά του,
φέρσου σε κάθε καλεσμένο με αξιοπρέπεια,
θα μπορούσε κάλλιστα να σε ετοιμάζει
για μια χαρά καινούργια.
Τη νηφάλια σκέψη, την ντροπή, τη υστεροβουλία,
υποδέξου τες στην πόρτα χαμογελώντας και κάλεσέ τες μέσα.
Να είσαι ευγνώμων για καθετί που έρχεται,
γιατί έχει σταλεί ως οδηγός απ’ τον επέκεινα κόσμο.
*Από τον ιστότοπο catisart
A New Rule
[Rumi]
It is the rule with drunkards to fall upon each other,
to quarrel, become violent, and make a scene.
The lover is even worse than a drunkard.
I will tell you what love is: to enter a mine of gold.
And what is that gold?
The lover is a king above all kings,
unafraid of death, not at all interested in a golden crown.
The dervish has a pearl concealed under his patched cloak.
Why should he go begging door to door?
Last night that moon came along,
drunk, dropping clothes in the street.
"Get up," I told my heart, "Give the soul a glass of wine.
The moment has come to join the nightingale in the garden,
to taste sugar with the soul-parrot."
I have fallen, with my heart shattered -
where else but on your path? And I
broke your bowl, drunk, my idol, so drunk,
don't let me be harmed, take my hand.
A new rule a new law has been born:
break all the glasses and fall toward the glassblower.
*found in All Poetry
20210215
20210127
Untitled or Why I Love Japan
Zenovia Toloudi
Untitled or Why I Love Japan
2021
flour, matcha powder, butter, sugar, eggs, milk, vanilla extract.
This edible sculpture is made out of green tea, and it is part of a (new) body of work which is about home. This piece honors my Japanese roommates and friends. It is about respect, humbleness, and rituals. When I was first introduced to green tea, it was offered to me together with desserts. As a dessert lover I showed interest only in the sweets. It took me some time to realize why my behavior was offensive, but since then I drink green tea every single day.
*First presented as part of Comida Casera Project (January 23, 2021) curated by Evelyn Rydz.
Harvard Wisdom
Honored to be included to Sunha Paul Kim's book "Harvard Wisdom: Inspiration from Harvard Graduates Around the World" along with some incredible Harvard alumni working at NASA, TIME, theater, film, silicon valley, neuroscience, politics among other fields.
Harvard Wisdom (2020) is a snapshot of the collective consciousness of those who have led entire countries, companies, religious groups, militaries, and every other sector of society. It gives a glimpse into what those who have reached the pinnacle of achievement were thinking during the dark days of 2020. The wisdom shared by Harvard Alumni in this book is sure to serve as a guide through our shared march towards an uncertain future.
Features submissions from 171 Harvard Graduates including:
NASA Astronaut Terry Virts
Former First Daughter of Indonesia Yenny Zannuba Wahid
Film Director Mustapha M. Khan
Actress Bitsie Tulloch
Neurosurgeon Alfredo Quiñones-Hinojosa
Silicon Valley Legend Mark Pincus
Network Broadcaster James "JB" Brown
Former Governor of Massachusetts Michael Dukakis
2014 TIME Magazine Person of the Year Mosoka Papa Fallah
64th President of Bolivia Eduardo Rodriguez Veltze
Former Miss Singapore Rachel Leng Hui YingWall Street Legend Byron Wien
55th President of Mexico Vicente Fox