What is...? What would you do if ...? What is your opinion?
We don't ask them for solutions, we only ask for their answers!
And who answers? Children do!
I was interested in working with their espontaneity, conviction and sincerity in giving answers on issues which resolution is not yet in their power, but that will be part of their future and their responsibility aswell. This project
avoids an attempting to raise awareness and develop itself with a playful nature. Its conception is focused in the editing of audiovisual material captured from children and the creation of an attractive and functional interface to three touchscreens.
PHASE #1 | Search Ana Calhandro . João Lucas . Pedro Vilela
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... Story of Stuffacedido a 25 de Março de 2008
«From its extraction through sale, use and disposal, all the stuff in our lives affects communities at home and abroad, yet most of this is hidden from view. The Story of Stuff is a 20-minute, fast-paced, fact-filled look at the underside of our production and consumption patterns. The Story of Stuff exposes the connections between a huge number of environmental and social issues, and calls us together to create a more sustainable and just world. It'll teach you something, it'll make you laugh, and it just may change the way you look at all the stuff in your life forever.»
WWF.org acedido a 25 de Março de 2008
Warning campaign video about the consequences of deforestation and destruction of the entire environment carried out by humans. The campaign is from WWF Brazil, one section of the biggest organization of the overall level conservation of nature: the WWF.org, whose motto is "for a living planet."
Green Museum acedido a 28 de Março de 2008
"Green Museum" is an online museum that brings together artists from around the world who care about the environment and create art that does not affect it, taking all natural resources that the planet offers them to create their works.
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... Terreform - Grow a Treehouse acedido a 28 de Março de 2008
This video shows us Eco-architect Mitchell Joachim’s visionary ideas about how to grow up living treehouses from ficus molded around frame structures. He belongs to a nonprofit organization and philanthropic design collaborative named Terreform that integrates ecological principles in the urban environment.
Ideas for Europe - 24 Commercials for a Concept (DVD) acedido a 28 de Março de 2008
A german dual Graw Böckler project, with the cooperation of several other artists, which was to assemble a couple of ideas and concepts to make the public understand the need for a mentality change, and these ideas presented in the form of small ads.
«A concept is everything but a product I guess. But this is not really true. A publicity for a product that doesn´t exist is a "commercial for a concept" as well. We feel a need for new concepts and ideas regarding our public and personal lives. Let´s promote them!»
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... INDEX: melhorar a vida através do design This quarterly magazine article shows us some of the winner works of the event INDEX, 2005 edition Copenhagen: Issey Miyake, with his "instant" clothes A-POC; Pettie and Johan Petzer Jonker with the Hippo Roller and Michael Rakowitz with a temporary refuge using the surplus heat from the city ventilation system.
MID, Trimestral de Design e Arquitectura nº 71, 4º trimestre 2005, INDEX: Melhorar a Vida Através do Design, p. 28~29.
Video Art, Taschen In the first article is made a reference to the work of Kutlug Ataman: The Four Seasons of Veronica Read (2002), a video documentary about the four seasons of Hipeastrum, a type of amarilis and its sensitive development. In the second article is presented to us a video installation of Bj?rn Melhus: Again & Again, that is the subject of artificial reproduction, which caused a permanent discussion about the medicine possibilities, biologically feasible and ethically acceptable, since the days of Dolly, the first cloned sheep.
MARTIN, Sylvia [2006] “Entre dois extremos: formato de documentário e visões do mundo” e “Björn Melhus - Again & Again”, Video Art, Trad. Maria do Rosário Boléo, Lisboa, TACHEN, p. 25 e 66.
