{"id":40,"count":11,"description":"Our Town\r\n<br><br>\r\nThe visitor first encounters a sign saying \u201cWelcome to our town\u2013Population: 11\u201d. Lettering on the sign is crafted\u2013florid and organic\u2013recognisable both from an imagined, bucolic past and from our hyper-networked present. We\u2019re on the periphery, early morning, a car driven by an older man with a younger person in the back seat passes us (A taxi? The taxi of dad?). The sound of the engine fades and silence returns to the scene.\r\n <br><br>\r\nCOCK-A-DOODLE-DOO! Another greeting from the town\u2019s twelfth inhabitant draws our attention back to the huddled buildings ahead. Following the river that the town is defined by, we are soon in the central square. There, we have a library, a church, a community centre, a news stand, an all-night store, a natural history museum, there\u2019s even a well in the centre. But despite the familiarity something is a bit\u2026<em>different<\/em>? The library is a human being, the museum is not a building but a URL, in the distance a hill is talking to us and there seems to be a body lying in the ditch next to the well\u2026 \r\n <br><br>\r\nApologies dear reader, the above text is a metaphor. We wanted to extend an observation a student raised during a group feedback session: that this years\u2019 projects resembled a town. Structures were being proposed, often at 1:1 scale that engage and commit to a space, a community or a subject. There is a kind of idealism in the work, and where the town idea seems to work best is in the idea of <em>neighbouring<\/em>, in sharing spaces, social and intellectual life. If it were a town, it would be designed from the grass roots up. These degree projects all flow from sources of criticality which have developed over the year into something committed and active, a <em>lyrical design<\/em>. \r\n <br><br>\r\nAs our students anticipate the next act, we are proud and hopeful that they will continue to operate in the other realities in and outside of Konstfack.\r\n <br><br>\r\nSara Teleman<br>\r\nProfessor in Illustration\r\n<br><br>\r\nPatrick Lacey<br>\r\nProfessor in Visual Communication","link":"https:\/\/konstfack2024.se\/en\/category\/master-en\/ma-vc\/","name":"Visual Communication","slug":"ma-vc","taxonomy":"category","parent":33,"meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/konstfack2024.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/40","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/konstfack2024.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/konstfack2024.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/category"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/konstfack2024.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/33"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/konstfack2024.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts?categories=40"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}