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Designing a Sense of the Immaterial in the Future
Anne Stenros, Vice President, Design, KONE Corporation (Finland)
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A central theme of today’s design and architecture is a sense of the ‘immaterial’ in many forms. In architecture, this is expressed by the skilful use of glass and steel, in translucent and transparent surfaces, light and airy structures and materials, a sense of continuity, of flow in interiors and forms. In design, transparent plastics and nanomaterials have made it possible to create an illusion of an ultra-light, fragile, and immaterial world. The minimalist, almost invisible image sells an illusion of purity, space, and time. This presentation will discuss how to link the complexity of today’s world with this idea of immaterial simplicity, and what role design plays in this linking.
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