$IGNAL$ 023: LOOK AGAIN.
A chair, a swamp and a castle each start with a form we recognize. What holds attention is what happens when we get closer.
THE CHAIR MAKES A SOUND
In Apple’s new Designers of Tomorrow exhibition, Brooklyn designer Isabel Rower’s Padded Chair 1860 has ceramic-bead fringe that sounds when brushed. Sitting becomes a way of noticing the object, not just using it.
READ: APPLE DESIGNERS OF TOMORROW
A LOST WETLAND FILLS THE SCREEN
At MoMA, Jakob Kudsk Steensen’s Wetland draws on field recordings, ecological research, scanning and game-engine technology to build an evolving digital landscape. It brings evidence of a threatened place into an encounter visitors can spend time inside.
THE CASTLE SHOWS ITS CONCRETE
Yvonne Mak’s floating Sandbag Castle at Dutch Design Week is built from modules showcasing lower-carbon concrete formulations. The material experiment is the structure itself, where visitors can see it rather than read about it.
THE SIGNAL
A familiar form gets a second life when it makes people stop and inspect what they assumed they knew.
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