by Josefin Vargö

NONOBJECT is a design group driven by Suncica Lukic, Branko Lukic, Steve Takayama and Steve Vassallo. Their work is focused and developed around their nonobject philosophy involving what they call ‘the experience space’.
They will soon publish the book NONOBJECT which will come out in October 2010, and might be worth to check out.
It could be interesting to read about their take on ‘the experience space’ and what that entails.

To find out more about them go to: http://www.nonobject.com/
More info about the book: http://www.nonobjectbook.com/book.html

This may seem a surprise but here is an example of experience design beyond experience. Composed when Beethoven was completely deaf, it begins as emotional conflagration – a strident unison of G’s extends over three octaves, and one and one-half bars which are followed with one hundred and twenty-six consecutive bars noted as forte or beyond. Its structure is comprised of stark, sometimes toothed contrasts where sections break off precipitously; cool tension subsides into warmth. The Grosse Fugue is an acoustic experience to which Beethoven had no direct access; it maps creative experience beyond the senses.

The future of education? At EDG we work with themes not disciplines and to do some basic reading check out Mark C. Taylor’s op-ed piece in The New York Times. That’s the future and that’s EDG.

Ronald Jones