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15. In your opinion, what was the weakest work in the exhibition and
why?
Creative I suppose the ones with the least fit to our artistic vision
Director might be a better way of talking about it… Justin Marshall’s
piece, pieces and Tavs Jorgensen’s, bowls and NIO
Architecten… I just felt that each of those pieces were very
heavily product-led. There was not any interaction with
the work… I think [Jorgensen’s] tea towels are great but… it
was how the work had been created rather than the work
that was interesting in that particular piece.
Programme The ‘Ibuki’ object was a beautiful object but it didn’t work
Manager the way that we thought it was going to work.
The partners were asked the inverse of the previous question to indicate what
they thought was the weakest work in the exhibition and why. CD reframed the
question to the work that least fit folly’s artistic vision and indicated ‘Morse’,
‘Penrose Strapping1’, ‘Motion in Form’ and ‘Watermark’ because they were very
product-led and not interactive in any way. PM cited ‘Ibuki’ because it did not
function as described in the original proposal.
16. Were you surprised by any work in the show? Why?
Creative Geoffrey Mann’s piece [‘Flight – Take Off’] I’m surprised by
Director the very strong reactions people had to that… I was
surprised by the strength of the reaction to that work. For
us it’s so much about process and taking part but clearly
there’s a real passion for seeing something really beautiful.
Programme I think possibly the ‘Wi-fi Camera Obscura’ was the most
Manager surprising thing from an industrial design perspective I
loved its eccentricity and wasn’t really expecting that to
be the case. I was pleased that we were able to make a
second one and develop the relationship with the partners
in the building
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