paper

boring?

http://www.icon-magazine.co.uk/issues/027/boring.htm

+Arch Office, Milano













+ARCH's office is located Milan's city centre. The space, which is found inside one of the city's typical courts, is a former workshop. The existing structure has been maintained in the restructuring, showing it's essential linearity. The space, wide open, is paved with teak wood and flooded with natural light, which comes through wide floor-to-ceiling windows and skylights. A full-height glazed door opens to a small interior court, paved with teak-wood planks and planted with Bamboo, which the meeting room overlooks.

Completed in 2001

Richard Dedomenici is a one-man subversive think-tank primarily dedicated to the development and implementation of innovative strategies designed to undermine accepted belief systems and topple existing power structures.

By approaching the limits of conventionally acceptable behaviour, Richard Dedomenici's poetic acts of low-grade civil disobedience forcibly ask pertinent questions of society, while his subtle anarcho-surrealist interventions create the kind of uncertainty that leads to possibility.

final press photo

put your hand up if you are for this photo :)

a metaphor casts a first subject as being or equal to a second subject in some way. Thus, the first subject can be economically described because implicit and explicit attributes from the second subject are used to enhance the description of the first. This device is known for usage in literature, especially in poetry, where with few words, emotions and associations from one context are associated with objects and entities in a different context.

nina is soooo cool

bahbak is so beautiful

How can we become a family?

I am working on a kind of unification project for us in Milan. I will send you round my brief.
But this is us, platform 8 as we stand now.

Hurrah the butter is all gone

dont believe the hype

http://www.whitehouse.gov/

http://www.number10.gov.uk/output/Page1.asp

Tomorrow

Dear 8

tomorrow we'll start at 10.30 in the studio. I will familiarize myself with your individual PR jobs / projects for about 10 minutes each, so that after lunch we can start putting NYC proposal together. For this, please all bring

-title of the work
-your text about the work (200 -300 words max)
-a selection of good photos (no fancy prints at this stage, but good motives /shots).
-bio / about you (200 words)
-awards history if applicable
-anything else that might help you communicate your work

Also on the agenda for tomorrow:

-Milan update
-another Milan update (unconfirmed yet): a friend of Ron (an architect with a successful studio right in zona brera) has asked Ron if he knew someone who was interested in doing sth during the salone; ron has pointed him towards Platform 8. Still try to reach the guy, but to no avail yet.

Many greetings, see you tomorrow

Hannes

Brighton, yesterday

Coming Soon to the RCA!!!

great great world

http://www.handicappedpets.com/

this is you and your peers defined

http://www.trendwatching.com/briefing/

friends...

http://www.platformtwo.net/

awesome

http://www.28dayslater.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=7845

formats

The Story

The Idiots is about a group of young people who share one interest: idiocy. With a large house as their base, they spend all their spare time together exploring the hidden and less appreciated values of idiocy. They practise! The project is a manifestation of an explosive appetite for life in which they confront society with their idiocy. Nothing can be compared to the mutual feeling of success, every time their personal limits are transcended in yet another scenario. By accident Karen meets 3 members of the group and unintentionally she gets involved in their little game. She gradually understands what they are up to, and at first she is angry, but eventually she begins to participate in their diversions. Karen is different from the idiots. She is from a segment of society that hasn’t got time to theorise over life and its qualities. She has been drifting aimlessly, and conceals a sadness that comes to the surface every now and then, but with the idiots she finds solace and understanding without prying questions. Soon she’s drawn by the group’s satanic games. She’s attracted by their joy. And she becomes one of them. For Axel, one of the members, family life and work become more and more difficult, because the idiots keep terrorising his everyday life. For fun at first, but suddenly it isn’t funny anymore. Axel isn’t the only one to leave as the idiocy escalates, but the departures only strengthen the group’s solidarity. Most stay; they want to live out the excessive feelings, the aggression, the curiosity and the uncontrolled, egotistical primitive sexuality. It is as a measure of the heights they scale that Stoffer suggests that they formalise the group’s solidarity. Everybody has to undergo the ultimate test. A test that must be undergone at home, in front of their nearest and dearest, and which will separate the sheep from the goats. Only the seven strongest remain. Karen is the last one of the group to undergo the test.

Have a look at this movie if you haven't seen it yet. Its a group that puts up a performance and with this raising questions related to idiocy.

Good Selling

"Let us prove to the world," wrote William Bernbach in his 1949 manifesto for the "creative revolution," "that good taste, good art, good writing can be good selling."

Squarer than square...

The world is square
It's the square ness that surrounds us!

woohoo first blog video upload

56x45x25 - Working out of a Suitcase

London, February 9, 2007

Fourteen product designers from Royal College of Art land in Milan to declare their excess baggage at the design week 2007.

Using luggage as an exhibition space, they will unpack their reactions to the fair, spreading manifestos and mayhem in a mobile experiment across the city.
Producing ad-hoc and transient performances at targeted fair venues throughout the duration of the ‘Salone Internazionale del Mobile’, leaving only a digital trace in their wake.

Follow the action on the blog: www.platform8.blogspot.com
In collaboration with: Galleria Post Design, Milan.

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Details:
Milan Salone 18, 19, 20 April 2007
Contacts: Bahbak Hashemi-Nezhad, Hannes Koch
Email: platform8@rca.ac.uk
Tel; 00447817854449

what can you do with a suitcase??

(manipulated photo - from one of the originals of Guy Bourdin)

and this...

Maybe,.. give a bit more time, or you use it in your way if you like.

What about this?

graph fix

For Milano?

Hehe, just nicked Safety Mikes Bible and found hundreds of safety warnings, so that's where he get's them, and this.
Oh I would just love to have this little tape-machine. There is one with paint in it as well. Something for Milano/something for my birthday?

ver 1.0

Its a start
Thanks for the drawing nina
All comments welcome

Performances in Ill-Fitting Suits

Busk	Using two non-instruments to make music, providing a cap for the collection of public gratuities.
Clean and Tidy	Dressing up in mask, apron and gloves to spring-clean the environment with dusters, polish and air freshener.
Describe	Describing the fashions of passers-by for entertainment and education to those who wish to listen and learn.
Falling, Chalking	One falling down into a position, thus enabling the other to draw a chalk outline.
Make Cake Free	Waging a campaign, collecting signatures for a petition, using leaflets, the power of rhetoric and the distribution of free cake.
Messy Eating	Buying food to eat in or take away, gradually eating more messily.
Paint	Carefully painting individual blades of grass, or leaves on bushes or trees, a different shade of green.
Puppet	Wearing a glove puppet whilst going about one's business.
Reverse Begging	Sitting down in the street begging for passers-by to take money from a cap, due to one's affluence.
Wash and Dry	Walking into the sea to get thoroughly wet, afterwards walking up and down until thoroughly dry.

56x45x25

Working out of a Suitcase


London, February 9, 2007

Thirteen product designers from Royal College of Art are landing in Milan to declare their excess baggage at the 2007 Salone.
Using luggage as an exhibition space, they will unpack personal reactions, manifestos and mayhem in a mobile experiment across the city.
Expect ad-hoc and transient performances at targeted fair venues throughout the duration of the Salone, leaving only a digital trace in their wake.

Daily timetables will be available online at the designers’ blog at www.platform8.blogspot.com

***

56x25x45 - Working out of a Suitcase

Milan Salone 18, 19, 20 April 2007
Contacts: Bahbak Hashemi-Nezhad on info@bh-n.com
Sarah Van Gameren on info@sarahvangameren.com
URL: www.platform8.blogspot.com
Platform 8 : Bahbak Hashemi-Nezhad
Tom Price
Bas Kools
Nina Mrsnik
Benjamin Males
Simone Brewster
Simon Husslein
Henny van Nistelrooy
Cláudia Sofia Vieira Costa
Sarah van Gameren
Finn Magee
Alex Metcalf
Ilhoon Roh

P8 on the move

On the way to Hong Kong airport.

comments anyone?




the viral, (it's good)

simones patent idea

Regime Change

lets provoke the milanese...

Silvio Berlusconi, who resigned as Prime Minister in May, is Italy's richest man, estimated to be worth $12bn (£7bn).

For Mr Berlusconi's investment company controls Italy's three biggest private television stations. And his appointees run the public ones.

Opponents complained that an Italian voter could not escape blanket coverage favourable to Mr Berlusconi.

Merhan Karimi Nasseri

On the 15th of every month, from noon to 6pm

Performance by artist Michael Swaine

8 DINNERS / 3 2007: February 13, from 7pm

Dear all,

I am delighted to post the next date for a Platform 8 Dinner. This time our guests will be Daniel West, assistant editor of ICON Magazine, and Bruce Bell, an 8 veteran who now successfully works from within his 3 man studio in the field of applied architecture and art. A dinner not to miss. You bring booze, drinks and wwhatever you like, I cook, they talk.

FEBRUARY 13 (Tuesday), from 7 pm at rAndom Studios in Brixton.


Regards

Hannes

"in the morning...

... please, don't talk about design before I drink my coffee."
(one way to prevent a panic attack)

this is a greeting card / contract with society

finn cartoon 1

What hands can do

New VW commercial