Anghelos - Centro Studi sulla Comunicazione

INTERACTION

reciprocal action and reaction of facts or phenomena

INTERACTIONS WITH SPACE

A 'place' is not the absolute space of the newtonian physics, that is to say a universal space, but a space with a specific directionality and a heterogeneous density, generated by the relation with what I decided to call shintai.

Shintai is normally translated as 'body' but I mean it as the union of soul and flesh. It gets to know the world and at the same time it gets to know itself.

Tadao Ando

man space

SUBJECTIVE-RELATIONAL relationshipsubjectivity, orientation, belonging, identity, ...

EXISTENTIAL relationshipexistence at the centre of the living space organization

PHENOMENOLOGICAL - EXPERIENTIAL relationshipexperience gives form to space

RELATIVE AND TRANSFORMATIONAL relationshipbeing-there as a transitory condition, space reflects this transformational flow

INTERACTIONS WITH FORM

Today we can say that there is a fractal concept and geometry of nature. They are essentially based on the concept of auto-similarity, property shown by systems with structures that remain constant when the observation changes, in other words, when parts, no matter how small, are like the whole.

Benoit Mandelbrot

Similar to prisms which receive, decompose and diffract light, FORMS load themselves with cosmo-telluric radiations, they get saturated and then diffuse them in their environment. The nature of a volume, its orientation and its charge do condition the action, and this volume influences the thinner or less thin levels, touching, according to the Jean de la Foye's terminology, the physical field, the vital field or the spiritual one.

Jean-Charles Fabre

INTERACTIONS WITH COLOR

The ego itself is inside colour. The ego and the human astral body can't be distinguished from what is colour, they live in colour and they are, in such sense, out of man's physical body, as they are linked with what is outside colour: the ego and the astral body are the ones that transmit colours in the physical body and in the etheric body.

Rudolph Steiner

INTERACTIONS WITH OBJECTS

The essence of the design work isn't closed within the specific and disciplinary perimeter of the projects but takes part in the invention of models of life: ceremonies, affections, understanding, that take on design as a way to express themselves. The prime words to use talking of objects and spaces are 'universe', 'religion', 'eternal'. These words are the selective bottleneck that enables to solve with a synthetic vision the tough enigma not only of contemporaneity, but also of forms.

Alessandro Mendini

INTERACTIONS IN DOMESTIC ACTS

RITUALISATION indicates a way of acting that is habitual (or that became part of a habit), and non-intentional. It doesn't describe an action for itself, but rather the way an act can be done. It is the way that conforms itself to the conventions that makes an act a ritual one. In every day's life, if we say that something is being done as a 'ritual' or even 'in a ritual way', we mean according to 'the rules', the tradition, the conventions, if possible rather in an insignificant way, without thinking....
Ritualisation contrasts with the connected concept of PERFORMATIVITY.
Performance, in every day's life, means to put more in something (in a conscious or intentional way) of what is absolutely necessary; to give meaning to an act (especially insisting on 'to mean the meaning'). For instance, doing the washing up is exactly the kind of action done in a ritual way. It is often done, usually in the same way, with attention but not with conscious intention, besides working in order to get the dishes clean, that has become a deeply-rooted ritual activity. If someone does this action more dramatically than what is strictly necessary for the purpose, with expansive movements and great fun, for instance, it becomes 'performance'-non-conventional, even creative.

Susanna Rostas