Organised by Beatriz Colomina & Mark Wigley

ARE WE HUMAN? -- DESIGN AFTER DESIGN

Series: Symposium 
Date: 13/5/2016 
Time: 10:00 
Venue: Lecture Hall

In this event, the curators, exhibition architect, and London based participants in the 3rd Istanbul Design Biennial engage its central theme:

ARE WE HUMAN?
THE DESIGN OF THE SPECIES
200,000 years 200 years, 2 years, 2 seconds

Participants include:
Beatriz Colomina and Mark Wigley, Curators of the 3rd Istanbul Design Biennial.
Andres Jaque – Office of Political Innovation, exhibition architects.
Eyal Weizman – Forensic Architecture
John Palmesino and Ann-Sofi Ronnskog – Territorial Agency
Revital Cohen and Tuur Van Balen

Respondents include:
Alice Rawsthorne
Deyan Sudjic
Joseph Grima
Mark Cousins
Adrian Forty
Francesca Hughes

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BPM

Beats per minute (BPM) is a unit typically used as a measure of tempo in music and heart rate. The BPM tempo of a piece of music is conventionally shown in its score as a metronome mark, as illustrated to the right. This indicates that every one minute there should be 120quarter notes (or crotchets) (1/4). In simple time signatures it is conventional to show the tempo in terms of the note duration on the bottom. So a 4/4 would show a quarter note, as shown to the right, while a 2/2 would show a minim (or half note).

In compound time signatures the beat consists of three note durations (so there are 3 quavers (eighth notes) per beat in a 6/8 time signature) (1/8), so a dotted form of the next note duration up is used. The most common compound signatures: 6/8, 9/8, and 12/8, therefore use a dotted quarter note to indicate their BPM.

“In Iceland, even though you’re in the capital you can always walk for five minutes and you’re on your own. That’s kinda how I’ve worked on my melodies since I was a kid.”

The evidence for this is there in her songs: she says they’re all 83 BPM because that’s the speed she walks at. “Yeah, it’s pretty pathetic!” she laughs, “I’m actually trying to push one of the songs on the album now above 100 BPM but it’s proving hard!”   -Bjork

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Today I am writing for you a story which happened inside a flower bulb. And it involves you.

I would like to bring you to my own imagined space. To enter, you have to extend your arm and take my hand...

Welcome.

Today I furnished the walls with the petals of pink orchids. They have the freshness of a recently opened flower-scented fabric softener: some chloroform, some ethanol. And the colours resemble the surfaces of a pink enamel-coated Volkswagen new Beetle. Not only I spray Breeze to moisture the air, but to add a misty atmosphere to the aural effect of the light piercing through the pink orchid petals.

Now that you are in my bulb, your face is covered in moist. Our hands are still held together but they start to slip from each other as we move in circles to breathe the heavily moist atmosphere.




 

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