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Don't Panic! The Dark Side of Architecture and Design in a New ExhibitionDon't Panic! is a new exhibition at The Architecture Foundation's Yard Gallery that presents alternate visions for now and the near future that concentrate on the fragility of human behaviour.
"Don't Panic!" features films, architectural projects, design products and installations by recent graduates and tutors from the Royal College of Art.
These address the realities of contemporary life that architects and designers usually ignore: fear, danger and the fragility of human behaviour.
It embraces and celebrates a world full of contradiction and complication, a society obsessed with youth, beauty, media and celebrity, a society where what we believe to be true has more value than empirical truth, a society obsessed with itself and its own desires, a society searching for instant gratification, a society in which fewer than 50% of us describe ourselves as happy.
Films include "Desire Management" by Noam Toran, celebrating the use of domestic products to engage in unorthodox experiences, and "Driving With The Jones" by Nicola Koller, in which the English countryside succumbs to tragi-pathogens.
"Subversive Sightseeing" by Tim Simpson uses a coin-operated tourist telescope to view an apocalyptic London landscape, with mushroom clouds and the London Eye on the verge of destruction.
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June 1, 2007 | Viewed 24,630 time(s)
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