CONCEPT AND PROJECT
Here is a letter from Suyeon Lee.
A research project on space and our life. This is for having a new viewpoint of space use. It is looking at our culture with unspoken rules related to space use as imagining a flexible working life and office. This is driven by experimental research on the public as exploring those space with my body and mind. This project originally started from personal own experimental research for my own life. However, this research has changed to interactive research with the public as having a conversation on my radical design and the theme of working remotely.
My project is about exploring space especially making a psychological space among using public places as programmed into a different use. This jacket works as a portable piece of space and a place without a place, this led you can work from here to there, alleys to an underground station. This is a practical tool to give you a right to use space as your own office but also the largest reservoir of imagination for our future life. This jacket and experiment act like a mirror (heterotopia) to show the hidden side of public space use and flexible life.
The office, my office jacket is designed by the idea of looking at clothes as architecture.
Space extends from the clothes provide us psychological support to work inside jacket at outside. Because it is the most familiar space to us as we are always in-between clothes and our body.
Concept
This project is finding a space that has a similar concept with Foucault's ship in the notion of heterotopia.
"ships are a floating piece of space, a place without a place, that lives to itself, that is outlined by itself and that is abandoned, at the same time, to the infinite sea and that, from port to port, coast to coast, from brothel to brothel, leads to the colonies to look for what more precious there is in their gardens, you will understand why from the sixteenth century until nowadays ships have been not only the largest economic development tool (but this isn’t what I want to deal with right now) but also the largest reservoir of imagination for our civilization. A ship is the heterotopia par excellence."
This is about a different space made by the office jacket. Space is made by the clothes and it works as programming the place into a different use. It provides you with a portable space with the feature of personal space and body politic.
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The notion of Heterotopia by Foucault.
privileged or sacred or forbidden places, reserved to those individuals who are, in relation to society and the human environment where they live, in a state of crisis […] These are nursing homes, psychiatric clinics and also, of course, prisons […] the cemetery certainly is another place that goes against the ordinary cultural spaces, however, it is a space that is integral with the set of all places in the city, society or village, etc., since each individual, each single-family has relatives in the cemetery […] in a single real place, several spaces, several places that are mutually incompatible. So it is that the theater realizes in a scene a whole series of places that are foreign one to another; so it is that cinema manages to create a very special rectangular room where, on a two-dimensional screen, a three-dimensional space is projected […] there are heterotopias of time that accumulates indefinitely, such as museums, libraries. Museums and libraries are heterotopias where time never ceases to pile up and accumulate in itself, but in the seventeenth century, and until the end of it, museums and libraries were the expressions of an individual choice. On the other hand, the idea of accumulating everything, the idea of creating a place for every time that is, in turn, out of time, inaccessible to its own corruption, the project of organizing a sort of perpetual and indefinite accumulation of time in a place that does not move, this all belongs to our modernity
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https://alessandrocanzian.wordpress.com/2016/06/08/poetics-of-no-place-rachel-slade/#:~:text=Non%2Dplaces%20are%2C%20in%20short,and%20history%20do%20not%20exist.&text=Heterotopic%20places%20essentially%20are%20different,for%20a%20different%20place%2Frelation.&text=there%20are%20heterotopias%20of%20time,%2C%20such%20as%20museums%2C%20libraries.