The Gladstone Hotel seeks "Expressions of Interest" for innovative, cutting-edge, contemporary design and installation-based projects for The Gladstone Hotel's annual alternative design event, Come Up To My Room. The sixth installment of CUTMR will take place from February 5th to 8th, 2009 at the historic Gladstone Hotel in downtown, Toronto. Site-specific work will be mounted in the rooms and public spaces on the 2nd and main floors of The Gladstone.

Ideal candidates for juried consideration are artists/designers who focus their practice in the areas of experimentalm, inter-disciplinary, self-taught, hand-made/craft-based installation, as well as Environmental Art and Design (including graphic, new media, lens-based, i.e. photography, film & video, and more). We are looking for practitioners and emerging designers who approach their discipline with a radical personal vision, and who use design to converse, connect, collaborate and delight in the unexpected.

project : Droog Event 2: Urban Play, The Spirit of the City - a route of 12 objects/ interventions in the public space of Amsterdam.

commissioner: Droog Design, Amsterdam

on the occasion of: The first edition of the Design Biennale EXPERIMENTA DESIGN AMSTERDAM (part of the Experimenta Biennale from Lisbon).

THE COMMISSION ¡®URBAN PLAY¡¯
The commission is to design a non-site specific object, tool, toy, intervention in the (semi) public domain of a waterfront city centre that proposes alternative use for the location or intervention and calls upon and challenges the inhabitants and users of the location to be creative. The design can be funny, facilitating, practical, visionary, guerrilla, idealistic, playful etc.

"Urban play @ night"

Two monthes ago I visited Germany and learned how quickly it got dark.
Nights in Europe seemed quite different from where I live, where there's more crowd and streets much brighter.
Then it got to me how streets at night could get really lonely, empty and even depressing.
This goes for any streets in the world.
So I suggest a more cheerful night for urban play.
Street lights in exhibition areas, the waterfront, nearby subway stations etc. will have disco balls hanging from them,
which will result in a disco-like, party-like street which will bring a whole new atmosphere.

¡°Glowing Steps¡±

Giving some dance time for the public. For those walking in streets while listening to music, lovers that spend some time together in open areas. This is an extended idea of urban play @ night.
Giving the public another ¡®enjoyable thing to do¡¯ in areas that are open and provided to them.
Frankly, it is creating an outdoor dance floor, but which can only be seen when the sun sets.
Arranging drawn steps of waltz and tango steps into patterns with luminescent pigment (paint), which glow as it gets dark. The glowing dance patterns will be drawn (stenciled) on an open space like in a park or a plaza.
The pattern itself will work as a decoration which will bring a different atmosphere to the area,
The public can work on the steps and enjoy dancing waltz and tango. It doesn¡¯t necessarily have to be waltz & tango but I chose these because it¡¯s probably the most understandable dance for anyone, no matter what nationality.

And they don¡¯t have to dance exactly to the steps. Just dance whatever you feel like. That¡¯s the idea

Material, Form & Structure

In the dictionary, 'chair' is described as a furniture that's formed of a back, a seat and legs that hold it up and in the west, various types of chairs were made which were customed to living manners in the past. Chairs were generalized around the 18th century and before that, it was only the high class that enjoyed sitting in chairs.

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Light.

It is an electromagnetic wave which is created by the intersection of the electric and magnetic fields. The differences of this wavelength results to three rays-ultraviolet rays, visible rays or infrared rays.Among these, visible rays are the one human can recognize.

Every colors are determined by the wavelength and we are able to acknowledge an object when thelight hits the object and reflects back into our eyes.When the ray reflects fully, we see white, and when it doesn't reflect at all, we see black.

Raw Material Project is to acknowledge an object with reflection of light(in other words, an
object with color) and to control light with the most raw materials. I will then examine the transformed light after it passes through the materials and search for the meaning of light in respect to all kinds, including the sunlight which is the source of energy to most everything on Earth.

¡°DESIGN VS UNDESIGNED-INITIATIVE ATTITUDE, OBSERVATION, POSSIBILITY¡±

In the name of 'design', various products exists as part of our every-day lives.Most designed products are 'packaged' with the right answer for consumers.In other words, products that have been designed under the justification of convenience that are 'best for' consumers may be piling up in storage rooms, like and unwanted gift.

What are products that are designed and undesigned?

Consumer's initiative, active attitude towards a designed product can bring all sorts of inspiration,furthermore, a driving force for an endless discovery.Through observing and getting inspiration, I'm looking for the possible initiative attitude(design) which goes beyond the passive(undesigned).