AtRandom
Founded in 2006 / Organized by Jon Sueda and Sean Donahue
AtRandom is a community sponsored public gathering of designers, artists, writers and researchers within the Los Angeles area. These events provide a forum for our local community to take part in a critical discussion about design and visual culture in a context unattached to any one educational, professional or disciplinary institution. There is no agenda to legitimize our occupation or provide a venue for networking. Our only goal is to instigate a stimulating dialogue and investigate design in our community though lectures, exhibitions, and other happenings.
AtRandom events have no standard configuration and manifest themselves in forms unique to each specific event and dialogue. Both large and small, real and virtual, planned and spontaneous, critical and comical, each event will provide a platform for unique voices to share their work while facilitating access to fruitful discussions.
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AtRandom #2
Elena Manferdini: Habit Habitat
May 20th, 2007
Center for the Arts, Eagle Rock
Los Angeles, California
A NOTE FROM ELENA :
Tailors for centuries have been solving the problem of constructing complex curved geometry with simple flat material; fashion has become a tool for introducing new methodologies for developable surfaces. On the other hand, the ultimate goal for applying digital techniques from architecture to fashion is to introduce customization during the design phase of mass-produced clothing. Even though computers have opened the way for custom designed items (through standard CNC production technologies), only a few companies have introduced identity driven lines. Commercial clothing is still generic. In the long run applying animation and custom scripting tools to the design phase would blur the distinction between couture and ready-to-wear lines.|
My research sees clothing as a source of traditional and innovative techniques to introduce creativity, effect and taste in the mass culture of building standards. My lecture will focus on the relationship between fashion and architecture in my work in the past 2 years.
– Elena Manferdini
www.ateliermanferdini.com
