'Soft, Wild and Free': A magical realist fairytale. (1st June 2021)
- Record Type:
- Journal Article
- Title:
- 'Soft, Wild and Free': A magical realist fairytale. (1st June 2021)
- Main Title:
- 'Soft, Wild and Free': A magical realist fairytale
- Authors:
- Liangi, Ifigeneia
- Abstract:
- 'Soft, Wild and Free' is a magical realist fairytale about a creature that was soft and wild. It is also a magical realist fairytale about the courage of a guerilla princess who freed this creature from its foundations. With my research on magical realism, fairytales and the combination of the two, I am looking into fictional narratives that have the potential for the creation of spaces which are magical and critical. These fictional narratives exist in words and images that are constructed with a sensitivity to ideas of place and a place's spirit and character. Through the writing I bring together elements from magical realist literature and the classic magical fairytale, into a hybrid style, which then translates into drawings that I make physically and digitally. Clay, wood, card models, as well as sketches, orthographic drawings and paintings of buildings weave into a series of drawings whose scope is to suggest a version of architecture with a critical and poetic stance to the world. These drawings propose buildings as characters and characters as places that talk about the past and the present while imagining a poetic and critical future. In my work there are three types of processes, which are based on translations; two intersemiotic and one interlingual. The two intersemiotic translations are from writing to drawings and models and from drawings to writing; the interlingual translation is from modern Greek to English. These processes become spatial acts, as they'Soft, Wild and Free' is a magical realist fairytale about a creature that was soft and wild. It is also a magical realist fairytale about the courage of a guerilla princess who freed this creature from its foundations. With my research on magical realism, fairytales and the combination of the two, I am looking into fictional narratives that have the potential for the creation of spaces which are magical and critical. These fictional narratives exist in words and images that are constructed with a sensitivity to ideas of place and a place's spirit and character. Through the writing I bring together elements from magical realist literature and the classic magical fairytale, into a hybrid style, which then translates into drawings that I make physically and digitally. Clay, wood, card models, as well as sketches, orthographic drawings and paintings of buildings weave into a series of drawings whose scope is to suggest a version of architecture with a critical and poetic stance to the world. These drawings propose buildings as characters and characters as places that talk about the past and the present while imagining a poetic and critical future. In my work there are three types of processes, which are based on translations; two intersemiotic and one interlingual. The two intersemiotic translations are from writing to drawings and models and from drawings to writing; the interlingual translation is from modern Greek to English. These processes become spatial acts, as they allow for a perpetual generation of fictional and factual stories in words and images. My research is rooted in an inherent understanding of architecture through a literature that is critical and magical, an existential potion for our allegedly normal and normative world, which is really a wondrous, magical realist dream. … (more)
- Is Part Of:
- Design ecologies. Volume 10:Number 1/2(2021)
- Journal:
- Design ecologies
- Issue:
- Volume 10:Number 1/2(2021)
- Issue Display:
- Volume 10, Issue 1/2 (2021)
- Year:
- 2021
- Volume:
- 10
- Issue:
- 1/2
- Issue Sort Value:
- 2021-0010-NaN-0000
- Page Start:
- 83
- Page End:
- 98
- Publication Date:
- 2021-06-01
- Subjects:
- Design -- Environmental aspects -- Periodicals
Architecture -- Environmental aspects -- Periodicals
Sustainable architecture -- Periodicals
Sustainable design -- Periodicals
720.47 - Journal URLs:
- http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/journals/view-Journal, id=197/ ↗
http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/journals/index/ ↗ - DOI:
- 10.1386/des_00011_1 ↗
- Languages:
- English
- ISSNs:
- 2043-0698
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- Legaldeposit
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