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Social Design by FOS
As part of the artistic undertaking Social Design, this selection responds to some of its most fundamental questions: How do our physical surroundings influence social interaction—and how can art and design facilitate those relations
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  • Social Design by FOS

    As part of the artistic undertaking Social Design, this selection responds to some of its most fundamental questions: How do our physical surroundings influence social interaction—and how can art and design facilitate those relations.
  • Better relations through design

    Social Design    —a term still in the process of being defined—is also the name of a design project and of the artistic process under which artist, FOS, creates installations, sculpture and objects for everyday living. Here, architecture and design are employed in their capacities to reveal relations between the physical and the social and to bring about new social patterns.
     
    The physical and social are reciprocal; a physical object or space is seen as a starting point for a social situation, just as a social situation becomes the starting point for an aesthetic object or structure.  
     
    People are in continuous communication with their surroundings. Artistic, meaningful design is one way to better that conversation. To that end, Furnism has selected a number of succinct creations from Social Design.

  • ”SITTING ON THE GHOST OF DESIGN”

    Conference and coffee table

    This table range takes it shape directly from the philosophy of Social Design—the notion that the social is as much a physical reality as steel or, say, the chair you are sitting on. This social fabric is thought to comprise a number of combined fields with flexible boundaries and thus it is always able to take on new form.

    The tabletop is inspired by this idea and made for different social situations – like the ones that unfold around a coffee table or at a meeting.

    By connecting tables of the same type for a larger surface, the table can itself take on new form.

     

     

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    “ANXIETY IS PART OF THE COMMUNITY”

    Canteen / Dining table

    The name of this table refers to a social reality that FOS confronts through Social Design.

    We each have a kind of personal space around us, which, when impinged upon, we become aware of as a tangible boundary between ourselves and others. These boundaries, or differences, and the anxieties they conjure are obstacles to communication. When we embrace them, we can overcome them—and that’s when we really connect and make progress.

    “Anxiety is part of the community” is a dining/canteen table that addresses this condition. By being just 10 cm narrower than ordinary tables, the design breaks our inherent intimacy boundaries naturally and the opportunity for a new kind of closeness can evolve.

    Each tabletop is a different cross-section of the color wheel, making each of them unique in its color scheme.

     

     

  • ”You are moving into me; you have to leave some of yourself behind which I have to move into.”

    When we communicate, we draw on our collective references and norms, and are forced to put away our private notions in order to make room for understanding others’. Here, you can simply hang them on this coat rack.

     

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Published: December 02, 2010
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