As a designer, one is initially trained to be super observant, and I got that from practising photography during my early education.
Be observant - find a problem - try to solve it !
That being said, earlier last month I got an opportunity to visit the Adobe France office for the University Internship program, and there you go, fake plants taped with the ceiling lights. It is the least expected place one would likely come across, but then again why not ?
Fake plants tell us a huge deal about the people and place !
Who are those people who buy these fake plants? Forget about manufacturers, we will buy anything cheap and easy to maintain.
We could infer certain points from the fake plant's conundrum in a corporate that makes creative tools -
1. It’s all a show-biz, we can’t hope to appear beauteous and try to reverse climate change simultaneously! We can’t hope to be greener than green.
2. People in the institute need to be pointing out these issues—that also tells us about the lack of environmental awareness in such cooperations!
3. As a creative spirit, I would never see myself working in such an environment, where these small loopholes hide behind a fake facade.
It’s a growing trend among various restaurants in Paris, where the facades are covered in large quantities of vibrant fake plants and flowers.
From an average Joe’s perspective, they are beautiful and a perfect set-up for the influx of tourists and their selfies, so a genuine request, stop sugarcoating our built environment and face the hard truth.
Our immediate disconnect from Nature and a common binary mentality of “nature and man” have roots in numerous such problems. One cannot photoshop our systematic societal problems, as hard as we try, these problems will persist if we don’t change our mindset.
Are you a fake plant person ?!
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Scavenger Reign (Animated 2023, HBO Max), is sci-fi with a mix of adventure on an intergalactic alien planet where the crew is stranded. Every crew member is on their journey to their one mother ship, the Demeter while trying to make sense of this new habitat and its hidden mysteries.
The visuals are almost identical to Moebius comics and the game Sable. Some critics are also describing this animated series as an alien nature documentary which is evident in the quality of its world-building, the music is deeply mystic.
As the title already suggests, scavenging is part of the narrative where it becomes an essential skill to survive when one is stranded on an alien planet; understanding and making use of our immediate surroundings also needs high cognitive ability which only humans are capable of as we have been awarded numerous times the all-time best invasive species on the planet. But the act of scavenging has always fascinated me, in various life forms, what and how we find resourceful. Our ability to recognise the shapes and forms and their ideal function to achieve a task.
The other facet of the TV series is when a robot tries to understand the new life form on the planet where it is disconnected from the central system of the mothership hence, an independent AI which later becomes one in harmony with the local form of life by adapting.
Throughout the series, the creators also ask the universal fundamental question about life and the actual meaning of it all.
- Resources
The collaboration cookbook is a living resource that includes recipes for real creative projects. Each recipe is an instruction for an activity, initiative, or experiment that is the products of people working together in creative partnership. https://www.collaborationcookbook.com/
Recycling is a Colonial Delusion - https://itsfreezinginla.com/articles/recycling-delusion
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Mariáš - lifting game for 2-4 players. It is played with a deck of 32 cards of the German type. The cards are either single-headed or double-headed. In marias, cards are denoted by symbols: heart (or red), acorns, leaves (or green) and balls.
- Package dimensions (w h d): 6,5 x 10,5 x 1cm
- Material: Cardboard
- Package contents: 32 cards
The set of cards was made in the Czech Republic.