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Clementina Altube
A word on I feel design is something that excersices our capacity to make choices, which is something we are constantly tested on even in childhood. Speaking from a philosophical, Sartre-like point of view, we are compelled to choose, non-stop. That goes even for the most simple of things: a rebellious child refusing to wear the clothes that Mother gave you, or a grown up, having to make decisions that are sometimes overwhelming. Therefore, I believe that consciously molding this microcosm helps us to be responsible for all things around us, for our lives and our direction.
Design shouldn't be an exception.
To raise a volume, a form. To search for a texture. To priorize a color. The creative process is the outcome of previous mechanisms of choice, and the things we choose manifest our perception of this world: our ethics, our aesthetics. To design is to spare and to adopt. To design is to choose.
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Proyecto Ratรณn
Clementina Altube
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Proyecto Ratón
Clementina Altube
With the aim of developing a furniture piece, I presented the “Proyecto Ratón”. This hybrid book stand and side table was developed from research made around the theatrical group La Fura Dels Baus, a spanish company founded in the late 70’s, that worked in the field of performance art, with interpretations that were highly transgressive and critical. Concrete walls, broad scenarios, raw distopian worlds, nudity, challenging conceptual themes; La Fura has always been powerful and solid. I imagined my piece as a part of their scene. As something that could be obtained as a materialised version of the spirit of La Fura.
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that it’s something that has stuck to me, even in the most subconscious part of myself. My teachers know it, concrete is my first thought everytime I’m given the opportunity of a new project. However, and to my own surprise, I tend to discard those ideas, and I have never placed my hands on fresh concrete —yet. My exposure to brutalism, to theatre, and to a list of things that I could never consciouslly assemble, brought me to this idea. “Proyecto Ratón” is the closest I got to working with concrete. I wanted the module to appear solid, to give the impression of self sufficiency, an impression that both the material and La Fura Dels Baus always gave me. Although the pictures show a prototype made of foam, it is intended to be built on hollow boxes of concrete.
I believe that every project one makes is a combination of two inevitable things; the external conditions and the internal conditions. That would be, the environment —within that environment, all the different factors that could condition a person that is creating something—, and the personal experiences, which by no doubt determine the perception of our world, and therefore, of our projects. A project is the point in which those two forces collide. Speaking about my own perception of this project, I would say that certain decisions where made mainly thanks to my experience with different things. In the aspect and feel of the prototipe, I would need to speak of the house I grew up in; the southern part of the Buenos Aires suburban perimetral area. The floor of the living room of that house, rethought by an architect, my mother, is made of smooth cement. Standing in one of the sides of the space, there is a concrete column. That column was the worse place to get your feet accidentaly hit as a kid. I grew on a house that had a lot of that aesthetic criteria, and I would say 11
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Volca Box
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VOLCA BOX
june 2017
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Volca Box
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this page; cardboard prototypes of the VolcaBox next page; final editorial
Personally, I found this project very close to my heart. I am one of its potential clients. Since I am the owner of a Volca Beat myself, I deal with the everyday struggles of carrying it around on my backpack. It is, quite simply, always a mess. A mildly fragile object inside a cointainer filled with stationary, phone chargers, cables. It's a recipe for disaster. This combined with the fact that when you do want to use it (perhaps if you get together with friends who own other members of the Volca Family and want to pair and sinchronize them) beer, water, or wine is always spilled on the table. The Volca Beat measures 19x12x4 cm (w x d x h) and can almost fit in your hand. Small analog machines attract danger easier. The smaller your synth is, the more danger it will be exposed to.
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This is why I developed the VolcaBox. Made out of a bamboo cut off, provided by a local woodshop, it shields the VolcaBeat so you can carry it around without damaging it. The straps are removable to be able to use the box even when not transporting it.
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Clementina Altube
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But the local particulars of content matter less to me than the underlying investigation in all these essays: the problem of preserving individuality and complexity in a noisy and distractiong mass culture. — Jonathan Franzen
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TRASH BAG 2 bagbag
may 2017
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Clementina Altube
During the Volume class in the second semester of my year in IED Barcelona, we were given a very simple assingment: choose a topic. Develop either a scale model of a chair or a seat, a bag, or a skirt.
My choice was (clearly) a bag.
The trashbagbag is made entirely of trash bag weave and staples. I created a very simple shape that allowed the plastic to look appealing, similar to leather. My concept focused on geology, to the damage we humans are causing our planet due to global warming and toba massive overproduction of plastic. This project reflects upon sustainability and how we can make something appealing out of a stigmatized object such as a trash bag.
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Images of my editorial work for SofĂa Frasquet Dreyer's collection, shot in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
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Feris is a portfolio produced and edited by Clementina Altube on June 2017, at IED Barcelona School of Design. All pictures were taken by herself. Extract from poem in p. 15 - T. S. Eliot, The Wasteland Quote in p. 31 - Jonathan Franzen, How To Be Alone Quote in p. 33 - Maxim Gorky, from Bruno Munari's Design as Art Feris is a latin concept that refers to all things wild, savage, brutal, raw.