Strangers
Arthur Paul Ottmann
Student
Arthur Paul Ottmann Academic staff
Gianluca Camillini Pietro Corraini Stephan August Schmidt-Wulffen Course
The heart of the matter Program
BA Major Design Semester
2023/24 WS My book shows portraits that I took on the streets of Bolzano over the course of four days. The people photographed share different stories, from short impressions to biographic turning points.
“STRANGERS” revises our superficial encounters in public space for a sustainable experience of the other. While we learn little about the people we meet in our everyday lives, the book offers a second look on human encounters.
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For exhibiting the book I decided to locate it in front of the text that is actually hidden in the inverted pages in the book and that is to be discovered.
A project made in the course
The heart of the matter
We live in a world characterized by an abundance of messages and information: an endless and shapeless flow of knowledge, signs, and data always at our disposal, 24 hours a day. We are inundated with content that, until just a few months ago, was produced exclusively by human minds, but now is easily generated en masse by artificial intelligence systems. The information overload we daily face confronts us with both design and ethical challenges as content creators: what mark to leave in the world and how to evaluate it. Is it truly appropriate to produce information on a large scale, or perhaps it is time to reflect on the role of the designer and create a new communication ecology? It's time to make a choice, synthesize, and discard the superfluous in order to create more targeted and genuinely useful projects, starting from the simplicity of the sign to the precision of the message.
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