Saturday, August 23, 2014
Fab10 – What If The Future We Want Is Built by Us, Not Sold to Us?
Daily Inspiration: Over the last weekend we’ve attended Fab10, a festival celebrating 10 years of FabLabs around the globe. I came to Barcelona to personally check out the creative outburst of this proactive, ingenious and grassroots community.
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I have to say that my favorite part of this article is the part about kids. Looking at the world like a kid opens up many different possibilities. I miss that ignorant phase where all the wonders of the world were mysteries and we could go on for hours describing these crazy contraptions. I remember going on about all the features of a "Fire Car" (kind of like a spaceship and the bat-mobile in one). It was totally made up but I went into so much detail that I started to believe it existed! Where I'm going with this is that as we get older and we learn about how things work and what things really are and our imaginations begins to shrink. I don't know about others, but I worry a lot that I'm forcing my imagination to DO SOMETHING and it's because I know things. There is a famous composer in South Korea (I don't remember his name) and he's known to be one of the best composers in South Korea. He was asked what makes him such an amazing composer and he answered "I don't listen to music". Alexander McQueen said that he never looked up to other designers to inspire him. They looked at their passion with a child's mind and they created art. So yes, I think if we use our child-like imaginations, the future would be made up of our true desires rather than the ones that we learn are socially acceptable for everyone.
I hope I didn't go off on too much of a tangent... I can go on forever about this because it's something that my friend and I love discussing!
I also like that their getting kids involved! (GET THEM WHILE THEIR YOUNG! Just kidding... but seriously, fascinate them when their young and the future is forever in their hands!)
The thing that made me think most in this article was the same thing that caught my eye in the first place; so to say, the substance of the article for me was the title. "What if the future we want is built by us, not sold to us." In some ways in drama we do already do this. The sets, designs, and even future theaters are, for the large part built by us. And when they are sold to us, it is probably 1) being used for something other than its purpose 2) by someone that now sells things, but is one of us.
I agree that this is a direction that at least part of the world is going in, and on a selfish note, I think that what we are doing here expands our opportunities in that part of the world.
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