More on Saturday’s Made Up: Design’s Fictions show in a lovely story in today’s L.A. Times quoting Tim Durfee and Ann Burdick.

Durfee

From the article: “Preparing students for the unknown is the basis of the program’s curriculum, creating designers who can imagine the unimaginable. Made Up showcases successful works of flexibility and openness to new ideas.

Take, for instance, ‘The Rather Large Array,’ a 50-foot wooden beam that visitors to the former aerodynamics lab will see suspended from a network of PVC support rigging. Some 24 cameras are mounted on the beam itself to collect images from the reception. The images will be projected in real time onto a window in the gallery and later be printed out on the premises, creating a sort of live catalog of the show.

If all that sounds a touch complicated, that’s because it is. But for Durfee, experimenting with structural complexity in the name of philosophical complexity (‘Who we are is not just where we are at the moment’) offers opportunities for growth. In addition to academic tradition, he cites strong interest from the students as inspiration for the project.”

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