Kosmic What!?

It’s not that the terms ‘Kosmic’, ‘interference’ and ‘installation’ aren’t completely self-explanatory to the architecture newb… but I guess I didn’t exactly know what I was getting myself into with this project! For those of you who missed the band wagon let me start by explaining all this madness. Kosmic  is (only) the greatest architecture party of the year. Seemingly us architecture geeks (sorry, politically incorrect…  architecture enthusiasts) find it stimulating to cover a space from head to toe with themed installations, transforming the space into the perfect setting for a night of wild activities.

Today was day one as fifteen or so first year keeners sat around the hub pondering this year’s installation theme: Interference. Good thing there was a ‘brainstorm board’ posted outside the hub for anyone to jot down and sketch their definition of ‘kosmic interference’. What intellectual musings did this bring out? An example was a cat inside of a cat being abducted by aliens. This sounds promising. (picture)

We started off in the way that every great project begins: We split up into teams. Cue shudder-inducing 80’s horror film soundtrack. Apparently the ‘real world’ isn’t like high school where you just team up with your friends. It seems there are actually three types of personalities when it comes to team work. There are the Visionaries (often mistaken for daydreamers), the Managers (a tactful term for control freaks), and the Doers (if the thought of sitting still and pondering your thoughts makes your skin crawl, this might be you). So, 400 hours later (okay, a minor hyperbole) we had finally classified everyone’s personality and so began the division into our groups. My team: Nam, Troy, Jeff, Christina, Peter, Ulrich and myself.

How will we interfere at a kosmic scale? Good thing we have a brain-storming session coming up!

Cheers,

Jadeg