Comments on: From a Lost City by Christian Vivanco

By: xtiaan

xtiaan — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 21:41:46 +0000

does it come smeared with shit like a real shanty town?

By: cedication.crimes

cedication.crimes — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 07:55:46 +0000

thank you ken.

obviously, mr vivanco is designing from a background of privilege:

“…the violence and how people survive in such a hostile environment….In the end, this people is as happy or more that any of us, finding in simplicity the joy of life.”

no favela inhabitant would ever willingly choose a life born into violence, poverty. mr vivanco embodies the same pretentious attitude within the design communinty that perpetuates these “hostile environments” because they often come from people who can actually affect change with their craft.

i actually like the piece. and if your were inspired by the aesthetic of shanties then say so. but please dont patronize your fellow latinos by excusing away their victimization of an oppressive and exploitative western culture by chalking it up to the bohemian beauty of living the “simple life” of a favela, as if its something to be admired. favelas are cancers of injustice and they need to be cured!

as a mexican, you should be ashamed of yourself.

By: Joanna

Joanna — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 09:44:25 +0000

My mistake, i dont have the website ready, yet.

well, seems that you know more that us about trends and design, so, i will take that into consideration and take a closer look to Yatzer (¿is it yours?).

good luck!

By: Rich

Rich — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 06:01:49 +0000

Love the implementation of the concept into the actual design.

In fact, these Shanty towns also exist in Malaysia. They’re usually called Setinggan.

By: zuy

zuy — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 23:18:17 +0000

joanna i said that because you only sent comment about Vivanco’s works … (your link dunnot work….)
I think Vivanco is only in a trend and you will see in next Milan’s fair / salone di mobile a lot of chest of multicolored drawers (ex Casamania) not inspired by favelas’ storytelling but by some furniture from dutch, swedish, spanish, portuguese designers from last years but more retro , more baroque, more old fashions …crise is there….

http://www.yatzer.com/assets/Image/4.april08/wis/wis_thumb.jpg

By: Boccaccio

Boccaccio — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 22:17:47 +0000

No lemonade came from the lemon.

By: Joanna

Joanna — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 22:11:27 +0000

hahahaha, ill never put them in the same level Mr., different leagues, but wondering about the same manifesto in others. Im still not sure how to compare and relate each of their works, but seems that there´s more than one connexion inst?

By the way, about Mikaël post; i can see more relation in the last of of Mike Meiré works:

http://www.dezeen.com/2009/02/15/global-street-food-by-mike-meire-for-dornbracht-2/

By: ZUY

ZUY — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 21:20:15 +0000

… you Joanna… is it too much!!!!!

By: Joanna

Joanna — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 17:28:38 +0000

You can see the same inspiration, the idea of a more human and warm furniture; still not the same result. Im really happy to see that “emotional design” is reaching a stage of maturity, not only an experiment of color and shapes.

But, who else is into this research… bourollec, crasset, barberosgerby, doshi levien, NEL, Morrison… who else…?

By: mikaël

mikaël — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 16:10:20 +0000

anybody else thought of this (farm project) while stumbling on this post?

http://designguide.dutchdesignlab.com/design/the-farm-project-design-miami-2007/