Mookyan
Alessandra Colantuoni
Student
Alessandra Colantuoni Academic staff
Klaus Hackl Luca Martorano Tiziana Piccioni Course
The Migration of Forms Program
BA Major Design Semester
2019/20 WS Mookyan is a modular coat rack produced for primary school children. It is inspired by the use of the perfect geometry which characterizes the Chinese wooden dummy called Mook Yan Jong. The extra value of this object is that the user decides its configuration by choosing its height and the length of the wooden pegs.
A project made in the course
The Migration of Forms
Transfer as a Tool for Ideas. “Our material world is made up of a succession of layers; generation by generation, work by work, each new layer is informed by and created in dialogue with the existing material strata. The food we eat, the spaces we occupy, the written and visual media we engage with, the songs we listen to, the art we spend time with, the films we watch, and the objects we live with were all informed by past material culture and, in turn, will influence future creative decisions.” This short intro by Jasper Morrison offers a clear vision of our material world, how it evolves and how it is understood and utilised, both structurally and chronologically. We can recognise the inherent law which seems to be working in the background of the theory.
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