HOME–WORLD, The Sustainable Debate – Project Space proposal Silvija Lomanaite – Interior Designer and Madeleine Preston – Artist
We met while working at the Whitehouse Institute of Design and found a common interest in contemporary issues in art and design. This led us to pursue further contexts for collaboration and dialogue about the issues that make up the debates in and around contemporary culture. Our initial collaboration resulted in a 3 storey sculptural façade for a state transit authority car park that was built in Sydney’s outer suburb of Glenfield in 2010. –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– People spend more time awake at work then they do at home. Our work explores the relationship between domestic space or “home sweet home” and the workplace, with its imposing structures, both physical and organisational. Does the act of leaving one place (home) to go to another (work) change the nature of an individuals relationship to space? Can this change be achieved simply through architectural or environmental shifts alone?
Our proposed installation explores how different, if any, the thoughts and emotions of home and work are. Where does glass curtain wall meet domestic distress and domestic bliss? Is there a home beyond home and what are its implications?
Current debates on sustainability and urbanism – the consequence of rationalisation and industrialisation, focus on the technological and often ignore the impact emotions can have on sustainability. Our proposed installation aims to encourage the viewer to look at the urban fabric from the different point of view – one woven out of the emotions of the people residing in it.
As Daniel Libeskind said in his interview with Silvija Lomanaite for Centras architectural magazine:
Sustainability is really a cultural question. To sustain something is not just to add some greenery, and it is not even the physical survival of the planet. It is a spiritual idea, and of course when you build something in a profound way, which is deeply related to the true way of the world, it is sustainable. That’s why we have the history of the world, because we have the notion of the true, the good and the beautiful. So sustainability goes far beyond technological manipulation of nature, it has to do with the understanding of one’s history. True sustainability – the world is dependant on human beings and it’s the way people think about the world; if people only think about material possessions, not matter how much green they put in the buildings, it will not work. People have to be also oriented to do something which is truly poetic, profound and which is a part of their own lives and histories and then I think the world can have a future.(Lomanaite, 2008)
Being sustainable in the domestic sphere is not only about raising chickens or cultivating a vegetable patch; it is about the way we as individuals and as families live; the values we pass on to our children; our sense of ‘home sweet home’. Being sustainable in the broader sense is not only about designing ‘green’ buildings and replacing / fixing the ‘evil’ curtain glass wall, it is about the attitudes of those behind the urban skyscraper their emotions, education and desires.
The environment proposed for the Project Space is a dialogue between the urban, the suburban, and the people who move between both spaces. The physical installation itself will be made of materials that can be washed, eaten or worn away at exhibitions end –sculpted and woven glass walled towers of sugar, sugar spun trees and knitted skyscraper scarves. The walls will screen projections of cars moving toward the city on the left and away from the city on the right reflecting the entry and exit of the viewer.
As people enter the space they move through a temporary conception of sustainability made solid with the natural materials sugar and wool. The space allows the viewer to become a temporary inhabitant of the sugared city. A city that has all the elements of urbanity except for the human, the audience on entering closes this gap Lomanaite S.,2008, Centras Magazine, Vilnius, Lithuania
HOME–WORLD, The Sustainable Debate – Project Space proposal Silvija Lomanaite – Interior Designer and Madeleine Preston – Artist
We met while working at the Whitehouse Institute of Design and found a common interest in contemporary issues in art and design. This led us to pursue further contexts for collaboration and dialogue about the issues that make up the debates in and around contemporary culture. Our initial collaboration resulted in a 3 storey sculptural façade for a state transit authority car park that was built in Sydney’s outer suburb of Glenfield in 2010. –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– People spend more time awake at work then they do at home. Our work explores the relationship between domestic space or “home sweet home” and the workplace, with its imposing structures, both physical and organisational. Does the act of leaving one place (home) to go to another (work) change the nature of an individuals relationship to space? Can this change be achieved simply through architectural or environmental shifts alone?
Our proposed installation explores how different, if any, the thoughts and emotions of home and work are. Where does glass curtain wall meet domestic distress and domestic bliss? Is there a home beyond home and what are its implications?
Current debates on sustainability and urbanism – the consequence of rationalisation and industrialisation, focus on the technological and often ignore the impact emotions can have on sustainability. Our proposed installation aims to encourage the viewer to look at the urban fabric from the different point of view – one woven out of the emotions of the people residing in it.
As Daniel Libeskind said in his interview with Silvija Lomanaite for Centras architectural magazine:
Sustainability is really a cultural question. To sustain something is not just to add some greenery, and it is not even the physical survival of the planet. It is a spiritual idea, and of course when you build something in a profound way, which is deeply related to the true way of the world, it is sustainable. That’s why we have the history of the world, because we have the notion of the true, the good and the beautiful. So sustainability goes far beyond technological manipulation of nature, it has to do with the understanding of one’s history. True sustainability – the world is dependant on human beings and it’s the way people think about the world; if people only think about material possessions, not matter how much green they put in the buildings, it will not work. People have to be also oriented to do something which is truly poetic, profound and which is a part of their own lives and histories and then I think the world can have a future.(Lomanaite, 2008)
Being sustainable in the domestic sphere is not only about raising chickens or cultivating a vegetable patch; it is about the way we as individuals and as families live; the values we pass on to our children; our sense of ‘home sweet home’. Being sustainable in the broader sense is not only about designing ‘green’ buildings and replacing / fixing the ‘evil’ curtain glass wall, it is about the attitudes of those behind the urban skyscraper their emotions, education and desires.
The environment proposed for the Project Space is a dialogue between the urban, the suburban, and the people who move between both spaces. The physical installation itself will be made of materials that can be washed, eaten or worn away at exhibitions end –sculpted and woven glass walled towers of sugar, sugar spun trees and knitted skyscraper scarves. The walls will screen projections of cars moving toward the city on the left and away from the city on the right reflecting the entry and exit of the viewer.
As people enter the space they move through a temporary conception of sustainability made solid with the natural materials sugar and wool. The space allows the viewer to become a temporary inhabitant of the sugared city. A city that has all the elements of urbanity except for the human, the audience on entering closes this gap Lomanaite S.,2008, Centras Magazine, Vilnius, Lithuania