slow projects

slow projects

Please submit your projects to SLOW.
Email:human@slowdesign.org

Here’s the slow revolution in action.........Project 01slow poem

Slowness is a revolution beyond what we understand about modernity and speed… Here’s an evolving, never-ending poem

Alastair Fuad-Luke, SLOW Project02 60 Minutes bench/sofa

Industrial, Consumer and Knowledge economies, and the 24-hour clock, order our frenetic lives. To balance our physical, mental, emotional and spiritual health we need ‘time out’, we need contemplative, quality time. ‘60 Minutes’ is an on-going project to slow down human metabolism in the home environment. This project is operated by the sustainable design network, tempo.

www.tempo-design.net
How slow can one get in just sixty minutes? ’60 Minutes bench/sofa first emerged as a sketch showing six second-hand kitchen/dining chairs gradually inclined from upright (chair 1) to relaxed (chair 6). Ten minutes in each position from upright to relaxed ensures an enveloping sense of positive slowness. This concept evolved into the continuous tortional geometric surfaces of the rendered 3D Max design.

Alastair Fuad-Luke, SLOW design .................................

Project 03 Walk Away

In the Information Age the Personal Computer is both liberator and enslaver. Sitting at a PC monitor for hours on end is bad for your health. Walk Away restores your balance of personal well-being. Walk Away relies on a phenomenon called quantising, where the human eye can’t recognise two spatial frequencies of contrast in an image at the same time. One of the most famous examples of quantising is Salvador Dali’s 1976 oil on photographic paper called “Gala contemplating the Mediterranean Sea which at eighteen metres becomes the portrait of Abraham Lincoln” (Homage to Rothko). Dali coined the phrase ‘Dalivision’ to describe his technique, revealing creative opportunities in pixellation long before the digerati of today.

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