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 February 24 (Sunday) - March 24 (Sunday), 2002 Gallery B
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The NTT InterCommunication Center is pleased to present Design Dissolving in Behavior, an exhibition of work by the participants in ICC New School 8, a program of eight workshops held from May through December, 2001.
Noted product designer FUKASAWA Naoto was invited to serve as the instructor in these workshops. Participants engaged in a process of re-perceiving everyday phenomena and linking the infinite range of ideas in the environment to design.
This exhibition will also be the first showing in Japan of "Personal Skies" and "A Chair with a Soul Left Behind," two works that FUKASAWA created at the invitation of the New York Museum of Modern Art for its workspheres exhibition, held in February, 2001.
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Design Dissolving in Behavior is design inextricably tied to human action.
In these workshops, we began by looking at afterimages of human behavior that are at one with their environment. We tend to believe that almost all our actions are carried out consciously. It is, however, our unconscious behavior that preserves a natural flow of action. Human beings intuitively discover what is of value in their environments and try to become harmonious with it. That sequence of unconscious discovery and adjustment in turn produces behavior. Our involvement with our environment goes beyond our conscious awareness; it is physical, animal. Self-conscious awareness of the shared experience of body and environment dissolving together creates connectedness, empathy. The afterimages that unconscious behaviors leave on the environment show us human action from an impartial, objective perspective, unmediated by our conscious posturing, revealing the invisible connections that tie humans together. An infinite number of design elements are dissolved in the environment. In these workshops, we worked to notice those "things we knew but had not noticed" and to dissolve them into actual designs.
Look closely at the photograph of the site. First you will see a commonplace scene you might see every day. Look more closely and you will sense that behavior you and someone else have in common is being revealed.
FUKASAWA Naoto
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Talk Session
NewSchool8