Reversible-Destiny Lofts by Arakawa & Gins

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LuBo posted on Feb 14th 2007 2:04PM; via en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shusaku_...

Reversible-Destiny Lofts by Arakawa & Gins

An innovative housing project in Tokyo aims to keep residents sharp by throwing them off balance. Duck!

Most people, in choosing a new home, look for comfort: a serene atmosphere, smooth walls and floors, a logical layout. Nonsense, says Shusaku Arakawa, a Japanese artist based in New York. He and his creative partner, poet Madeline Gins, developed a small apartment complex in the Tokyo suburb of Mitaka that is anything but comfortable and calming. "People, particularly old people, shouldn't relax and sit back to help them decline," he insists. "They should be in an environment that stimulates their senses and invigorates their lives."

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	PaulMoschell says: I love this so much i CANNOT STAND IT. Posted: 06/07/09 16:17
	qwertyuiop says: Arakawa + Gins have decided to cheat death. In a society that values life, they would argue that it is unethical to accept mortality and those who do have a defeatist attitude. Using philosophical principles such as assemblage, emergence, embeddedness, and procedural architecture, Arakawa + Gins believe that they can sustain human life forever. Human reality is an assemblage of the body; also know as an “organism-assembly”, its practices and its interaction with its environment. From this assemblage, a person emerges and develops her own ideas, cognitions and orientation in the world and becomes embedded in an environment. These “organism-assembly processes” as Arakawa + Gins would refer to them as, go on to shape our realities and therefore, enforce the concept of mortality. Arakawa +Gins believe that through the manipulation of person’s environment (procedural architecture), a domino effect will occur, causing organism-assembly processes and biological organism-assembly to be changed, which will then affect a person’s practices (i.e. their actions) and eventually produce a completely renewed reality for that individual. Arakawa + Gins believe that procedural architecture forces one to doubt them self and allow reinvention. Their reasoning is sound on a conceptual level, but are these enlightened people immune to disease? Posted: 02/03/11 15:12

PaulMoschell says:

I love this so much i CANNOT STAND IT.
Posted: 06/07/09 16:17

qwertyuiop says:

Arakawa + Gins have decided to cheat death. In a society that values life, they would argue that it is unethical to accept mortality and those who do have a defeatist attitude. Using philosophical principles such as assemblage, emergence, embeddedness, and procedural architecture, Arakawa + Gins believe that they can sustain human life forever. Human reality is an assemblage of the body; also know as an “organism-assembly”, its practices and its interaction with its environment. From this assemblage, a person emerges and develops her own ideas, cognitions and orientation in the world and becomes embedded in an environment. These “organism-assembly processes” as Arakawa + Gins would refer to them as, go on to shape our realities and therefore, enforce the concept of mortality. Arakawa +Gins believe that through the manipulation of person’s environment (procedural architecture), a domino effect will occur, causing organism-assembly processes and biological organism-assembly to be changed, which will then affect a person’s practices (i.e. their actions) and eventually produce a completely renewed reality for that individual. Arakawa + Gins believe that procedural architecture forces one to doubt them self and allow reinvention. Their reasoning is sound on a conceptual level, but are these enlightened people immune to disease?
Posted: 02/03/11 15:12