Operation Swiss 2.0: Public Design Activity @Rainbow St

[Communication]
We’ve lately realized many of Interruptions activities create mass-confusion.
This surely is not intentional even though it’s enjoyable- but confusion is naturally the side-effect of putting together designers taking on topics from design culture, cities, people, things, building, society and politics and then do projects and label them Bananas, Power, Catatonia or the Swiss Operation!
All of which are exercised within ‘underground’ circles at a network structured merely as an Illuminati order-!

Our communication methods grew complex and our solid on-paper documentation is nowhere to be found for those who are eager to put their hands on it as a thousand and five hundred copies of Banana Edition were distributed personally without a copy at a store or bookshop!

Possibilities of building organized methods of communication seem distant! So for now we’re aiming at intensifying activities so that Interruptions can grow familiarity which enables people to become both recipients and creative mediums of spreading an interruptionist culture. (pretty optimistic!)

[Operation Swiss 2.0]
The Swiss Operation is a design exercise Interruptions team was commissioned for by owners of Swiss Café and Patisserie- Located at the gates of Rainbow street, Swiss is recognized by many Ammanis since it first opened in 1966 for serving the most delicious cheesecakes!

Operation Swiss 2.0

(find more pictures of Swiss sessions here.
Photo album will be updated weekly.)

[Swiss 2.0: Aims]
The exercise aims at maximizing Swiss’ potentials in-and-beyond the 4-table space, reintroduce brand, engage with Rainbow Street’s development and contribute values to local café culture.

Throughout the exercise we’ll be testing Design’s ability to assist small businesses, experiment with methods to encourage suggested hybrid behavior and promote the concept of public and interactive design activity.

[Public Design Activity]
An Interruptionist design team made up of architects and product designers carries out the exercise that’s divided to phases stretching between weekly sessions held at Swiss. A documentation process follows each of the sessions and a weekly report will be posted on Interruptions blog and the operation’s workspace on Interruptions’ network. Visitors of Swiss, as well as friends, viewers and readers can all interact throughout the design process, attend design sessions, join workspace and send comments or feedback. A public presentation will be held at Swiss once design is finalized.

Visitors and customers of Swiss are already interacting by adding to the notes we’ve posted on the walls.

Dr. Ziyad Haddad of Design faculty at the Yarmouk University joined one of our sessions and many guests will be invited later on at late design phases.

(We’re looking forward to receiving your comments and feedback to our weekly reports.)

Operation Swiss 2.0 – Intro

Operation Swiss 2.0

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Interruptions Videos; Rusaila Bazlamit [Techno Me : Me Reflect انا اعكس]

In this piece, the artist was looking at surfaces and media where the camera will be seeing itself.
This piece is part of [Techno Me] exhibition done by Rusaila Bazlamit, Makan, March, 2009

Interruptions Videos; Rusaila Bazlamit [Techno Me: Me Paint]

[Me Paint] is an experimentation with how can we use the digital signal… to paint.
Using the basic old trick of making the camera signal feeds itself back into a projection machine. In this case a laptop screen… the rest is done by chance…
This video is part of an art project titled [Techno Me]

Done by Rusaila Bazlamit at Makan in March 2009
Music by Tareq Abu-Rahma

Nour Bishouty’s Answering Machine!

Nour Bishouty‘s gift to Interruptions blog.

EH-LO by Nour Bishouty

At the tone, please record your message. When you are finished recording, you may hang up or press pound for more options.
Tooooooooooot

(take a sip of ‘shay akhdar’ and leave a message for Bishouty!)

Interruptions Catatonia Video on Aramram!

Paris Circle under Occupation!

[Paris Circle under Occupation]
[دوار باريس تحت الاحتلال]

Aramram:
في عالم مليء بالمصائب قام مجموعة من المصممين و الفنّانين المعماريين في مكان في جبل الويبدة
بتأدية مهمّة سريّة طالبت بها قطط عمّان من خلال فيديو مسجّل
إعادة إصلاح دوّار باريس
تغطية لعمل قيد الإنشاء مع تحيّات مجلّة

For more about Catatonia, read earlier blog posts;

http://interruptionsblog.wordpress.com/2009/08/08/interruptions-presents-cats-the-workshop/

Jordan Property ‘meows’ out Interruptions Workshop!

Jordan Propety Aug/Sep 09 Issue29

Interruptions Catatonia featured on JP's Issue29

It was a very pleasant surprise finding Interruptions Catatonia workshop poster featured on the latest issue of Jordan Property.
We weren’t even notified by Jordan Property of this feature and it was only by coincidence that I found Cats:Workshop poster (designed by Ahmad Sabbagh) on a full page at JP‘s FYI with a beautifully written caption which reads,

[With our world busy with the complications of politics, aftermaths of wars, and financial market indices, a group of young designers and architecture graduates and students in Jordan are turning the public eye to a different corner in the dark. It's a secret design mission!
Trying to think outside the box, these young people have organized a week-long workshop with the participation of designers from multiple backgrounds, The activity is aimed at reforming an urban setting, not for people, but for cats!
The workshop symbolically calls for liberating the mentality of designers from prescriptive typologies. It also triggers professionals to explore potentials for multi-disciplinary design approaches.
Designing for parallel creatures and thinking differently, the workshop was organized and carried out by "Interruptionists" as they call themselves, referring to their interactive website.]

Interruptions is also going to collaborate with Jordan Property as a content provider for their upcoming releases as an attempt to extend reach through other platforms both printed and online based.

Interruptions Videos; Dina Haddadin, [a Chair]

Mixed Media, video projection, photography, a broken chair, collage, acrylic, chalk on panel
A documentation video of the installation , a piece that reflects the way we force the present to be shaped by our past, through creating a paradox scenario between the elusive reality and the melting chair the element of ones strong proof of being.

Cats: Rough Exhibition Video | stop-motion