plato's cave - window for contemplation

CHELSEA COLLEGE OF ARTS / GRADUATE DIPLOMA: INTERIOR DEISGN

UNIT 1 : COMMODITY & DESIGN Project 2: Window for Contemplation - Part I Xinrui Li / Ariel Works Nov. 2020

CHELSEA COLLEGE OF ARTS / GRADUATE DIPLOMA: INTERIOR DEISGN

still, that this vastness is inhabited silent steps from the lake towards the fire once pencil sketches, ephemeral as the light caressing the hill, their floors and doors their corners and stairs and rooms nestling between trees between seasons and years bathing in sunlight floating on the lake- the children’s voices the roses, the rain, the wood it all still smells the same

Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Space,Boston: Beacon Press 1994 (p.201)

Plato's Cave An allegory presented by the Greek philosopher Plato in his work Republic (514a–520a)

Keep Questioning In the allegory, Socrates describes a group of people who have lived chained to the wall of a cave all of their lives, facing a blank wall. The people watch shadows projected on the wall from objects passing in front of a fire behind them and give names to these shadows. The shadows are the prisoners' reality but are not accurate representations of the real world. Three higher levels exist: the natural sciences; mathematics, geometry, and deductive logic; and the theory of forms.

'In Plato's "Republic" Socrates Likens Mankind to Prisoners in a Cave' Giclee Print - Chevignard | AllPosters.com

FILOSOFĂ?A. 2016. Available at: https://vykthors.wordpress. com/filosofia/ [Accessed: 16 November 2020].

Window: openmind & contemplation

The old house where star and rose Come and go My shadow forms a resonant shell And the poet listens to his past In the shell of his body's shadow Maxime Alexandre, La peau et les os, p. 1 8, Gallimard, Paris, 1956.

Bachelard, G. 1994. The Poetics of Space. Beacon Press.

(Bachelard 1994 5 Shell IX p.105)

Phenomenology of the imagination Crystal glass Led light

Frosted glass Black felt

Led light

Black felt

Perspective of axonometry

Atomosphere test

Curtiain

Materials

Frosted acrylic

Crystal acrylic

Black felt

ABS pipe

Foam board

LED light

LED light (lighting state)

UNIT 1 : COMMODITY & DESIGN Project 2: Window for contemplation Ariel Li Works