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Andy Warhol was a collector of epic proportions. From his piles of Fiesta Ware to his massive collection of art by other artists --and everything in between--for Warhol, collecting was a way of life.
What are you passionate about collecting? How do you live with it, display it, and ultimately enjoy it?
Closed Conversation
Week of April 29, 2012
Joyce S. Asked
What does it take to create beautiful, comfortable spaces that encourage play, health and well-being?
- Keywords:
- health,
- play,
- well-being
Closed Conversation
Week of April 15, 2012
Hosted By:
Director, MAK Center for Art and Architecture, Los Angeles, at the Schindler House
Dr. Cecily Cannan gave the final word
I understand that there is no lack of good Design today, but that there is a shortage of Resources and Customers to bring them to life. To access resources and “customers,” a need for so many good causes, again and again I find myself saying that we must make the values and actions we seek “fashionable”—i.e. to become something that everyone decides they want to have, to make or do…
In science education, we are promoting scientific inquiry, its products, and technology design fashionable by engaging everyone in them. As a science educator, I try to illuminate how and why a useful understanding of how the world works, within and around us, can promote actions to help them work better—i.e.healthier. Following this Conversation, I will be including a useful understanding of the technologies of healthy and beautiful spaces within definitions of technological and environmental literacy. This is, at least, one way to advance support for improved human-made environments.
Nizan gave the final word
Our chatter matters because, first of all, we need to keep processing and reexamine all those things that have been said in the past in our eve changing contexts (political, social, economical, environmental, etc.). In chattering we also act as filters, keeping alive those chatters of the past that still matter for our present, while burring under the rubble of words those past discourses that have become irrelevant to us. Second, we keep talking because it is in our human nature. Of course we self promote, that too is in our nature, but hopefully we have also learned enough from the discourses on ethics and talk about what we believe really matter, not, for example, what is fashionable for the moment or what may bring us more personal opportunities and such.
