.. Een reis door Afrika ... ik wil een zebravel. Ik hou van zwart-wit, Foucault , paarden ... strepen.
Zimbabwe .. na veel omzwervingen vinden we de Tannery. In the middle of nowhere. Zo moest het zijn. Eindelijk een mooi strepenpatroon op mijn vloer. Ik stap uit . ... We kijken rond ... die stank ... ik ruik ... ik zie groen en geel van ellende en misselijkheid ... . Hoe kan ik dit doen. Die troosteloosheid... arme dieren ... wrede hebzucht ... Ik voel me klein ... ... designers kunnen alles maken... Olifantenpoten als asbak, kuddu-horens als kapstok .... is het leven zo bedoeld? Kan ik zo maar nemen, wat niet van mij is? Geen strepen ... ik wil ze niet meer , liever een streeploos bestaan .. door met leven ... en in Zimbabwe een zebra meer ... .
... Ik schets ... ik schilder... een ander tuft... een donkere man ... uit Afrika ... verdwaald in Amsterdam ... samen kijken we naar ons werk... ik kan hem wel omhelzen .... samen zijn we blij ... het is prachtig ... het maakt ons vrolijk ... .Het is mooier dan echt ... het is echt ... echter dan echt ... het is mijn lieveling ... de zebra hoort waar hij hoort ... ik leef mijn leven.... . wat is het leven mooi .... .
Think ... think twice ....and be grateful.
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ROSE-MARIE KAANEN DUTCH DESIGNER
With so much choice, companies must ensure their products and services are meaningful and relevant. Design unlocks better thinking, better approaches. Dutch Design has become a global currency.
SKETCHBOOK 2008-2009a new research project, we aspires to explore new potentials for design practices across various registers. design-factory 'schetsbook' is a laboratory where emerging concepts and terminologies are set to a series of tests. What challenges emerge from the paradoxes that research into ‘imaginary property’ has given rise to? How could these potentially generate new rules of production, bearing in mind that property relations are constantly exchanging meanings? Against this background: do we have to rethink and re-evaluate the notion of ‘design’ as such?
We like to remain sharp and constantly work on the development of our creative potential and abilities, in the broadest sense of the word. An ongoing process, creative training, laboratory, a never-ending internet quest for image, meaning, sending, receiving, perception and what drives us.
The 'death' of intellectual property?
Intellectual property rights are being stretched by new technologies and the changes in markets and channels which they have brought about. The internet has broken down international borders and technological barriers, resulting in an unofficial deregulation of certain property rights. Intellectual property is disseminated (often unlawfully) further than was previously possible or intended.
Since intellectual property (particularly copyright) can be infringed so easily and thoroughly, this has led some commentators to state that the death of intellectual property is imminent. The argument runs, in essence, 'We can't regulate this any more, so let's stop trying'.
The 'no IP' camp represents an increasingly powerful and effective rival to mainstream business. A good example of this in action is Linux (an open-source software platform, developed by its users, which rivals Microsoft's Windows), which can be downloaded from the internet by users worldwide. Linux relies on its users to develop the technology further to improve it.
Being an open-source technology means that the intellectual property developed by its users when they change the software's structure, or make amendments to the source code, is shared among all Linux users without the protection of intellectual property rights. This is an example of a type of highly evolved software which would normally be protected by hundreds or thousands of different intellectual property rights. What is interesting about Linux is that it eschews conventional conceptions of intellectual property ownership in the interests of collusive and inclusive technology sharing.
