KANA ARIOKA
FOLD UN FOLD
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FOLD UN FOLD is a platform of trans-disciplinary exploration that seeks new perspective into the attitude of designing space. The space explored by this practice will be seen by being visualized and experienced.
The subject of Kana’s work is the rituals. She investigates in everyday rituals such as wearing, talking, reading, positioning and celebrating, giving twisted meanings into them. The outcomes are about visualization of the process by which human behaviour determines the final form of the objects.
The spatial design by visualizing the rituals through designed objects and by requiring the interaction of human body is a mission of this platform. The works consist of installations, curations and performances as well as designed objects such as clothing, furniture and graphic design.
MON ÎLE This installation was a challenge on how far artificial intervention in a natural setting can be recognized not only as an acceptable landscape, but also as an architectural spatial exploration. This project is realized at @boisbuchet thanks to the support by @madhomeofcreators.
MON ÎLE This installation was a challenge on how far artificial intervention in a natural setting can be recognized not only as an acceptable landscape, but also as an architectural spatial exploration. This project is realized at @boisbuchet thanks to the support by @madhomeofcreators.
FOLD UN FOLD_#2: POSITION is about designing the act of positioning our bodies into space, such as sitting or lying down. The light foldable textile-based furniture allows us to customize its form and find the comfort by ourselves.
FOLD UN FOLD_#2: POSITION is about designing the act of positioning our bodies into space, such as sitting or lying down. The light foldable textile-based furniture allows us to customize its form and find the comfort by ourselves.
proposal for Horst Music Festival
performative stage set for 4 speakers
proposal for Horst Music Festival
FOLD UN FOLD _WEARBLE is a series of exploration on our gesture of WEARING. It is based on the memory of experiencing space through WEARING. The careful ritual of wearing demands us to know how to space ourselves between a piece of cloth and body. This is a tentative to extract and visualize such rituals and by that, space. It is not about a form but about an experience. The visualization of ritual that creates space without boundaries. And the traces of our ritual that make DRAWINGS.
HOME DESSIN BODY represents the DESSIN of the space that exists in-between home and body. Wearing becomes a careful gesture of unfolding the fabric and folding it again. Wear it folded and unfolded again. The lightness of the fabric allows its shape to transform from purely geometric to organic and to conform to our bodies. (ⓒ Sam Gilbert)
FOLD UN FOLD _WEARBLE is a series of exploration on our gesture of WEARING. It is based on the memory of experiencing space through WEARING. The careful ritual of wearing demands us to know how to space ourselves between a piece of cloth and body. This is a tentative to extract and visualize such rituals and by that, space. It is not about a form but about an experience. The visualization of ritual that creates space without boundaries. And the traces of our ritual that make DRAWINGS.
PORTRAIT DESSIN TWIST is the first in a complex series of works that question on both Oriental and Western culture of making a cloth. A piece of pure geometric form cloth is turned into a dress by a single hole and three zippers. It must be worn twisted, and suddenly it is given an organic form that celebrates the human body.
PORTRAIT DESSIN TWIST is the first in a complex series of works that question on both Oriental and Western culture of making a cloth. A piece of pure geometric form cloth is turned into a dress by a single hole and three zippers. It must be worn twisted, and suddenly it is given an organic form that celebrates the human body.
DRESS DESSIN DOMUS is composed of 4 pieces with exactly the same trapezoidal shape. It becomes two light capes, but also an elegant dress thanks to its 6 buttons. The combination of a pure geometric form and the lightness of the fabrics makes the ritual of wearing it so free.
DRESS DESSIN DOMUS is composed of 4 pieces with exactly the same trapezoidal shape. It becomes two light capes, but also an elegant dress thanks to its 6 buttons. The combination of a pure geometric form and the lightness of the fabrics makes the ritual of wearing it so free.
HOME DESSIN BODY _ WINTER WEAR ME HOME ME WARM ME
HOME DESSIN BODY _ WINTER WEAR ME HOME ME WARM ME
sketch for the coming exhibition FOLD UN FOLD_WEAR
sketch for the coming exhibition FOLD UN FOLD_WEAR
prototype study of the furniture FOLD UN FOLD_TALK I. The ritual TALK is re-considered under the theme of ‘how to distance each other’. This furniture is designed for two persons sitting/laying in interesting diagonal position. The oblique position of two persons, neither facing towards each other nor sitting side by side, is defined by observing on the ritual of TALKing. The privacy and the common sense of space will be both archived in this piece.
prototype study of the furniture FOLD UN FOLD_TALK I. The ritual TALK is re-considered under the theme of ‘how to distance each other’. This furniture is designed for two persons sitting/laying in interesting diagonal position. The oblique position of two persons, neither facing towards each other nor sitting side by side, is defined by observing on the ritual of TALKing. The privacy and the common sense of space will be both archived in this piece.
FOLD UN FOLD_DESK AND CHAIR The piece of this series of furniture has been made as playing folded and unfolded paper. The desk for a child has its jacket with buttons that make it to be assembled and disassembled easily. It lively and lightly accompanies the child sitting at the desk.
FOLD UN FOLD_DESK AND CHAIR The piece of this series of furniture has been made as playing folded and unfolded paper. The desk for a child has its jacket with buttons that make it to be assembled and disassembled easily. It lively and lightly accompanies the child sitting at the desk.
FOLD UN FOLD_COUCH The piece of this series of furniture has been made as playing folded and unfolded paper.
FOLD UN FOLD_COUCH The piece of this series of furniture has been made as playing folded and unfolded paper.