Design Your Own Life

As part of EXPERIMENTADESIGN and Hacking IKEA,  The Center for the Advancement of Recreation and Leisure will host the Sunday Adventure Club

This Sunday: Hacking IKEA in public space

Location; Platform 21 

Prinses Irenestraat 19, Amsterdam

Sunday Sept 21 @ 15:00 hr.

Join us in publicly Hacking IKEA, participants are in invited to build their own version of the Desert Lodge.

The Desert lodge is a prototype for a makeshift shelter used for getting from here to there – a synthetic tumbleweed drifting in the wind. It plays on an intuitive sense of geometry and lightweight structures. The Lodge traverses diverse zones in an attempt to be realized, from an instore prototyping demonstration in IKEA to the High Plains mesas in Arizona, the Lodge is in a constant state of motion.

Where I Lived and What I Lived For - Henry David Thoreau, 1854

“As for a Shelter, I will not deny that this is now a necessary of life, though there are instances of men having done without it for long periods in colder countries than this…. But, probably, man did not live long on the earth without discovering the convenience which there is in a house, the domestic comforts, which phrase may have originally signified the satisfactions of the house more than of the family; though these must be extremely partial and occasional in those climates where the house is associated in our thoughts with winter or the rainy season chiefly, and two thirds of the year, except for a parasol, is unnecessary.”