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Jeff Werner

I'm a designer in Vancouver, Canada. I work at the Beaty Biodiversity Museum, am a director of the 221A Artist Run Centre, and a member of Fieldwork design collective. I'm an Emily Carr and University of Victoria graduate and have worked in the Philippines, Indonesia and the Netherlands. I'm a cycling advocate and race on the Garneau Evolution team.

design netherlands Sports Work, February 20, 2008 10:01 AM 4 comments

Temporary Public Objects

First assignment, Modules 1-2-3, Man and Public Space, Design Academy Eindhoven: Investigate temporary objects used in public space (or objects used temporarily). A collection of initial photos.

4 comments on Temporary Public Objects

1. Tobias | February 20, 2008 5:32 PM

Interesting!

It's funny, the different preconceptions one has about the timeframe that should be attached to the word "temporary". What came to my mind when I read the introductory blurb was mainly disposable things like matches or napkins, whereas I considered a garabge can to be a "permanent" object (it's there "all the time") and something for "permanent use" because people come back to it repeatedly.

But, if one wants to take the question of timeframes to the extreme, isn't everything we know of temporary? It's just that some things end after our lifetime (consider the life-span of our entire human race for example) so we can't be bothered with their temporality in our everyday lives.

I realize now that I am babbling and will shut up. I'm just in essay-writing mode. F****ing Intradisciplinary Seminars.

2. R | February 20, 2008 6:18 PM

this reminds me of Marc Auge's book "Non-Places: Introduction to anthropology of supermodernity"

3. Tyler | February 21, 2008 8:53 AM

Cool project. Well done. Seems to feature a lot of urinals. And is dude in the brown jacket peeing on the wall?

4. Andreas | March 3, 2008 9:53 AM

I like this series a lot. I think there's a lot of things we don't really consider as being subject to design, so examining that is healthy.

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