Tag: week 4

I think this trip has spawned many incredible stories that will tell late into my life, but the floating piers will forever be at the top of my list. I feel like I am going to be that grandmother with many grandchildren, crazy about design, will ask me about. It was just like Christo said, it made the glow gold with a path reaching the horizon. This exhibit gave everyday people, regardless of how much money they had (other than travel to the lake) or worldly connection, the chance to experience not only walking on water but seeing the island from a different perspective and through a different means of transportation. The day altogether was exhausting in the best way possible, but laying out on that pier made me forget every trying time. We walked away from that pier knowing what incredible opportunity we had, being in Italy, withstanding the heat and dehydration. But I think Christo had to have known the serenity that would come once we stepped on that first pier. We were rocked, like a giant cradle soothing our previous discomforts. This experience was extraordinary and I am so grateful

I spoke with my family the other day. They asked me what I had been up to the past couple of weeks. I gave them the ol’ family play-by-play, but once I began to describe the Triennale Exhibits we visited I did not really know where to start. All of the exhibits had their own flare to them. I think the closest thing we have to this back in Austin are the open studios in west and east Austin. When thinking about the exhibit, Holler’s work comes to mind, not because i think his work was better or more extravagant than the othe r people a part of the exhibit, but because I got really interested in the idea of experience design. Similar to the floating piers, I think that exhibit did a wonderful job of posing a question or a prompt. For the entrance, more specifically, I first went through the dark tunnel with one other person and it was a completely different experience then when I went with a group. It really did take on the feel of a carnival. It, in some aspects, felt like my own version of alice in wonderland. You could catch the flashing lights from the other side, the only thing between us and it was a black tunnel with things unknown inside. I feel like that could be a line out of one of my favorite childhood stories. These exhibitions have a way of creating memories through interaction and it is definitely something to consider when design for others.