reading
"Helvetica, Modernism and the Status Quo of Design"
by Jen Wang (December 8, 2016)
here
reblogged by Kevin Lo here (short version, minus bibliography, but provides author's name!).
his summary —
Jen Wang’s essay does a brilliant job of challenging the neutrality/whiteness of modernist design aesthetics, as part of a broader analysis on the intersections of racism and design.
this to be considered in context of our discussion of any design for which the claim is made that it's "for everyone."
ghost hearts
I reported on a conversation at the Radcliffe Institute, Monday evening, between the artist Dario Robleto and the Doris A. Taylor (Director of Regenerative Medicine Research and Director of the Center for Cell and Organ Biotechnology at Texas Heart Institute). I talked more about the work of Taylor, and her work toward "regenerative transplantation" of the human heart, once it is washed of the donor's cells — leaving only a beautiful membrane or scaffolding called the "ghost heart" — which can then be populated with the recipient's own stem cells.
The context was Claire's project on face and other tissue and organ transplants, and the psychological effects of those transplants on their recipients. Their spouses asked two of the earliest heart transplant recipients, after their surgeries: "Do you still love me?"
links
The Once and Future Heart (the presentation and conversation I attended)
Unknown and Solitary Seas : Dreams and Emotions of the 19th Century (the exhibition of Dario Robleto's work)
discussions of Doris Taylor's "ghost heart" work
A Ghost (Heart) of a Chance
The Texas Heart Institute’s new research into a “ghost heart” — an organ scrubbed clean of all cells — could build a human heart nearly from scratch.
Alice Levitt. Houstonia. January 23, 2017
(several photographs)
Iconoclastic Houston scientist tackles medicine's big questions
Kyrie O’Connor. Houston Chronicle. August 10, 2014
(photographs)
A Heart for Healing
Maridith Walker Geuder (Mississippi University for Women) Visions
(several photographs)
Fred Lynch his coffee cups
dazzle camouflage
at wikipedia
some books on camouflage are in the Montserrat library —
Hardy Blechman, and Alex Newman, ed., DPM : disruptive pattern material : an encyclopedia of camouflage in nature, warfare and culture
two volumes :
UG 449 B54 2004 v.1
UG 449 B54 2004 v.2
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