Lisa Johansson

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The Tension Bench is a reminder of how dependent we are on each others actions, when sitting on one side it affects the other.

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Tension Bench

Sensitive dependence on 'initial conditions' in chaos theory concerns small variations of the initial condition of a system which may produce large variations in the long-term behavior of the same system. It is a common subject in fiction where one storyline diverges at the moment of a seemingly minor event resulting in two significantly different outcomes.

The tension Bench is an exploration of behavior between strangers in public spaces. One person is affected by the other persons movement.

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My name is Lisa Johansson. I am a first year student at the Royal College of Art in London. Welcome to my Work in Progress blog!

This blog was initially set up as an experiment in search of a way of updating & communicating with other students at the Design Products course at the RCA about my projects & progress, that is why I call it a 'work in progress' blog.

To make it easier for visitors from outside the college to get a grasp of what projects I am working on at the moment I have posted some images & short statements on the first two pages.

It is the 'Tension Bench' I will be showing in Milan during the furniture fair, so if you are around please come & see me & my classmates at:

Seves Glassblock showroom

Via Lodovico il Moro, 25/27

20143 Milano

www.sevesglassblock.milano@seves.it

lisa.johansson@network.rca.ac.uk

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Vermella Chair by the Campana Brothers

(http://campana.cooperhewitt.org/images.3.jpg

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Stream of Light sofa by Olivia Lee & Alieonor de Chambrier (http://www.dezeen.com/catergory/furniture/page/7/

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String Chair by egawa+zbryk (http://fresome.com/2008/08/11/the-string-chair/

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Droog marble bench

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Droog wire seat

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Bounded chaos.

A plot for the Lorenz attractor

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Phase diagram for a damped driven pendulum, with double period motion

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Butterfly Effect

small changes that may lead to different larger consequences. For example a ball placed at the crest of a hill may roll into any of several valleys depending on slight differences in initial position.

Chain Reaction

a sequence of reactions where a reactive product or by-product causes additional changes to take place (self amplification)

Domino Effect

when a small change causes similar change nearby

Chaos Theory

small variations with large implications

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlOmXbjdOk0

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Banana Free Fruit Mix

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Culture Shopk

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Work in Progress

Social Issues Research center recently coined the term "riskfactorphobia" to describe how health scares has lead worried parents to use extreme risk management to protect their children from possible harm.

Socialogists and paediatricians warn of the risk of overprotecting our offspring claiming that it impedes on children's development producing a whole new generation of children called cottonwool kids. Experts fear that overprotection of children may lead to them becoming incapable of dealing with even thee smallest obstacles later in life.

My project is about looking at the domestic environment investigating wheter preventing children from taking risks is the best way on protecting them.

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Risk Management Workshop

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Riskfactorphobia & Hygiene

I started my crisis research by looking into something called "riskfactorphobia" which is a term used to explain psychological effects of health scares, where people become hyper-sensitive to such scares and overreact. SIRC warned that "riskfactorphobia" was set to become a major public health problem, citing the MMR vaccination crisis as a prime example.

According to the "Hygiene Hypothesis" early exposure to dirt, germs and dust can help prevent the development of allergies later in life. Being too clean could be making us ill.

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Crisis Map

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Mini Crisis

To start off the crisis project we were asked to think of a 'mini crisis'.

My mini crisis was about sending an sms to the wrong person.I decided to make an emergency break for wrongly sent sms.

"39% of all documented technological blunders are sms sent to the wrong person"(www.silicon.com).

"A quick battery pull might be the only way of stopping a pending sms" (www.crackberry.com).

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Edison's Nightmare