This project consists in a paradoxal approach of a common garden. A virtual garden is projected as an holograph, inside a giant glass cube. This structure would be applied in city squares, where the pollution exists in higher values. That's a garden that should result in a inconvinient way, because it shows imediately the actions of the human being in the planet. The garden grows gradually, with base in the values in a 100 metres diameter. The values that are analised are based in CO2, electricity, water, temperature, and also an aproximated rate of the energetic efficiency. It's interesting to realize that just one person can not change that reality, but everyone has to act in a good way, making good options, to improve it.
PHASE #1 | Research 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.»
Story of Stuff its a video that retracts the cicle of the different materials used in daily routine: since is extraction, use, and wate, everything has influences our enviorenment. Altought, a big part of the truth is hidden. So that video pretend to alert for the problems that this cicle can bring in the future and which measures can we do to stop that negative effects.
WWF.org acedido a 25 de Março de 2008
Video of a campaign against Deforestation. That campaign is from WWF Brazil, one of the major organizations in a global level of the natural conservation.
Green Museum acedido a 28 de Março de 2008
“Green Museum” its a online open way, to many artists show their work. These artists are concerned about the environment, and their work turns around that theme.
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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 project of a german couple Graw Böckler, with the participation of various artists, to a project that gather many ideas and concepts, that try to make people changing their mentalities. That ideas are represented in advertisement.
«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 The article of this trimestral magazine, show us some winning works in the INDEX event, Copenhagen 2005: Issey Miyake, with his "instantanious clothing" A-POC; Pettie Petzer and Johan Jonker with the Hippo Roller and Michael Rakowitz with a project for the homeless people.
MID, TRIMESTRAL DE DESIGN E ARQUITECTURA n.º 71, 4º trimestre 2005, INDEX: melhorar a vida através do design, página 28/29
VIDEO ART, TASCHEN In the first article is made a reference to the work of Kutlug Ataman: The Four Seasons of Verónica Read (2002), a documentary about the four seasons of Hipeastrum, a type of amarilis and its delicate growing. The second article presents a video instalation by Björn Melhus; AgainAgain, that makes an approach to the artificial reproduction, in several points of view: etic, reliable, and possible.
MARTIN, Sylvia, VIDEO ART, TASCHEN, pp. 25 (Entre dois extremos: formato de documentário e visões do mundo), 66 (Again & Again, MELHUS, Björn).
