CHAKRA
Chakra is a product that takes our familiarity with carpets, a space of comfort and safety in private space, ot the public space of a park. By removing the content of the carpet, and keeping hte border of familiarity, it allows the suer to take off their shoes and walk barefeet onto the grass.
" would describe the distinction between city and landscape like this: cities tend to excite and agitate me; they make me feel big or small, self-confident, proud, curious, excited, tense, annoyed... or they intimidate me. But the landscape, if I give it the chance, offers me freedom and serenity. Nature has a different sense of time. Time is big in the landscape while in the city it is condensed, just like the city's space."
- Peter Zumthor, Thinking Architecture
The Moth, The Mountains, The Rivers
Who can guess the luna's sadness who lives so briefly? Who can guess the impatience of stone longing to be ground down, to be part again of something livelier? Who can imagine in what heaviness the rivers remember their original clarity?
Strange questions, yet I have spent worthwhile time with them. And I suggest them to you also, that your spirit grow in curiosity, that your life be richer than it is, that you bow to the earth as you feel how it actually is, that we- so cleaver, and ambitious, and selfish, and unrestrained- are onlv one design of the moving, the vivacious many.
by Mary Oliver, from A Thousand Mornings, 2012
Critical design allows people to question their habits and beliefs in a civilized society, questioning the very idea of “civil” which has created a world of mannerisms people so often play into without thought.
Parks in urban enviornments are the closests resemblance to wilderness allowing people to take a moment away from the chaos of everyday life. By being barefoot in the park, we ar able to feel how the earth really is and to enter and leave the space in its original purity- respecting earth in the same way we respect religions and cultures.
Parks in urban enviornments are the closests resemblance to wilderness allowing people to take a moment away from the chaos of everyday life. By being barefoot in the park, we ar able to feel how the earth really is and to enter and leave the space in its original purity- respecting earth in the same way we respect religions and cultures.
BAREFOOT ONLY PLEASE
