Vitra museum Interaction

My experience at the vitra museum was very interesting, and the experience inspired me, specially knowing that design can go to various fields, and watching his progress and way of thinking, design in various aspects of society and therefore improving what he found was not working or had some design problems, in his context, and his way to approach difficulties, point of view and his way of thinking where the main interesting points for me.

It was my first time there, and the way we walked around the place until finding the exact exposition from Victor papaneck, help me define my first impressions of the surroundings in a curious way, watching the different buildings at the start made me think that what I was perceiving buildings from different times and with different context set together in one extended area, but at the same time the area is that extended between a few buildings, that the relation between them is not that obvious, they where some elements in the exposition that called my attention, the work with materials, nature related, political posters, etc.

The buildings it self are a way for me to interact with different era’s buildings concept, establishing a link between the past and now with the store and place where the new vitra furniture design happens.

The exposition was very interesting for me, because it was remarkably palpable what victor papeneck did while being alive, Reading his busy calendar, his notes and the way those express or shows a hidden face of him, it opens the doors to his brain, his thoughts and how his daily live was.

I would say that’s a way of interacting with him directly his vestiges of what he did, the impact he created, socially, politically, inventing and designing new objects, visuals, books, etc. To guide people, suggest, critique society, defend woman’s rights, and even interior design ideas specifically created for nomads like him.

He was a fantastic designer but also the way the museum shows what he did and with whom he interacted, showing a Wall that communicates so well who was against him, who was with him, who influenced him and etc. Which was somehow an other way of interaction, having the names of the people set on a Wall stablished in us a relation in which the guide explained a bit of their lives ans the more we Heard about the most important ones, we would kind of feel like we where there, relating and understanding the context and his surroundings.

It was very impressive to see how he took examples of nature and represented them in a whole new way, in the second floor we could experiment ans smell the various unique smells from perfumes taking form some real smells that we all know, like the aroma of coffee and wine with others more abstract like “ice” perfume, interacting using our senses, tact (for example with the fabric designed in the second floor), smell, beside the visual and the sound components that are normal ones. That we experiment more often, was honestly unique.

Also watching some artefacts he designed with the purpose of helping disabled kind swimming, critiques about how depending the culture some woman where badly treated, the way he sketched, and made graphic his thoughts was a way for us to understand what was in his mind.

The interaction with the guide, teachers, specially listening to Frascara opinion, and students when talking about some specific objects, the interaction with the space, the way we interacted with the different architectural zones and the way everything is placed inside and out are ways of interaction between the content and the specific place design and  characteristics that go along with the same concept.