Even More Et Dukkehjem
July 8, 2008
Still more work on the objects for ‘Et Dukkehjem’. The picture above shows me sitting on ‘Torvald’ with ‘Nora’ and a prototype of ‘Krogstad’. Roger J. Berent and Kyle Hulewat – (Metropolitan Architecture Practice) are designing and making ‘Krogstad’. They have sent over some renderings of what they are thinking for him:
There are some holes in him that will function as holders for rolled-up information we will print up about the project. It would seem that IKEA-inspired projects are of the zeitgeist. Designboom just posted a DIY IKEA coffin by Joe Scanlan:
Scanlan is the artist to whom Alex Coles attributes the term ‘DesignArt’ to – so we know we are in good company.
Still many issues to resolve. We have found a candidate for ‘Dr. Rank’ – a rug. We still need to see if it will work with the electronics that will connect the furniture to the audience, each other and the Internet. This is what we are planning:
TORVALD, an armchair. When Torvald is sat on a webcam is activated and begins streaming images to the project website.
If anyone is interested in Henrik Ibsen’s original play it is available at Project Gutenberg.
