Designing for Mediocrity


Pre-Fab & Identity formation
November 24, 2008, 1:59 pm
Filed under: Everyday life images, Housing | Tags: ,

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“From the perspective of the amateur homemaker, designing and making the home are discursive and creative practices that are integral to the process of identity formation…” (home culture / Roni Brown)

A series of Pre-Fab houses – in this case the major part of the identity formation has been handed over to the manufacturer, where only the “customization” is left the house owner.



The beauty in the every day
November 8, 2008, 2:47 pm
Filed under: Inspirational images

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Everyday things in unusual sourroundings. The object getting alive by the natural element.

Photograph by Marko Zink in his exhibition “Es ist so – is this so?”

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Scene from the film “American Beauty”



Linking the stratum
October 30, 2008, 7:56 pm
Filed under: Everyday life images

The chestnut roasters – simple pleisure for reasonable prices

“Würstelstand” – hot dog stand

Public toilet

Vienna’s underground: also called the silver arrow

Tabletop football